At the invitation of Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan, the EU Troika delegation consisted of Mr. Georgios Papandreou, Foreign Minister of Greece, the current presidency of EU, Mr.Christopher Patten, the European Commissioner for External Relations, Mrs. Margherita Boniver, Deputy Foreign Minister of the Republic of Italy, which will assume the EU presidency for the second half of 2003, and representatives of the EU Council will pay an official visit to China from February 13th to 15th ,2003.