Special Report: The sixth round of six-party
talks
BEIJING, May 27 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Wu Dawei will
hold talks respectively with chief delegates to the six-party talks from the
Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), the United States, the Republic of
Korea (ROK) and Japan, said a Foreign ministry spokesman here Tuesday.
The five parties, which are expected to exchange views on how to promote
the six-party talks process, are working on specific arrangements, said Chinese
Foreign spokesman Qin Gang at a regular press conference.
"We hope other parties involved maintain sufficient and effective two-way
communications so as to comprehensively carry out the second-phase actions plan
in a balanced matter as soon as possible", he added.
It is learnt that top U.S. nuclear negotiator Christopher Hill is due to
arrive in Beijing on Tuesday and meet with his DPRK counterpart Kim Kye Gwan on
the same day.
"We have noticed that U.S. and DPRK kept frequent contacts recently with
positive interactive activities, which we think is conductive to promoting the
six-party talks progress", Qin said. "We hope the two sides will keep the good
momentum."
On the DPRK's nuclear program declaration, he said this issue has been
stipulated clearly in the joint documents that already published by six-party
talks, and all the parties have made commitment on that.
Qin said China hopes the stipulations of the joint documents and all
parties' commitment could be comprehensively carried out in a balanced way.
During the period, the parties concerned should enhance communication and
deepen mutual trust to achieve positive results in the second-phase actions plan
with a pragmatic and flexible attitude, said Qin.
Qin called on all the countries to work toward the same direction and make
concerted efforts, saying that China hopes the six-party talks could achieve
progress all along, which is also the common wish of the six parties.