Parties to Try to Make Six-Way Talks "Satisfying" - Chinese Foreign Minister
Posted on: Wednesday, 20 July 2005, 09:00 CDT
Text of report by reporters Tan Jingjing and Ren Ke by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency) Asia-Pacific service
Beijing, 20 July: At an interview with reporters on 20 July, Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing said: Various parties to the six-party talks will make joint efforts to make the new round of talks a "successful and a satisfying one".
Li Zhaoxing said: Various parties will further enhance coordination and cooperation with one another. I believe various parties will demonstrate sincerity, mutual understanding, and mutual respect. "We will properly cooperate and coordinate with one another, and hold a flexible and practical attitude to promote progress in the talks."
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Kong Quan announced on 19 July that the fourth round of the six-party talks on the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue was scheduled to start in Beijing on 26 July. Various parties will, once again, resume the six-party talks after an interval of 13 months. Various parties are placing high expectations on this round of the six-party talks.
Immediately after Kong Quan made the announcement, the ROK and Russian delegations said that they welcomed the announcement and that they hope the new round of talks will make "substantive progress [Chinese: shi zhi xing jin zhan]".
Earlier, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said: "China welcomes and proposes that various parties to the six-party talks draw on all useful ideas and make joint efforts to continually promote the progress of the six-party talks. We welcome all suggestions and propositions that are conducive to enhancing the atmosphere of the talks and to promoting the progress of the six- party talks on the DPRK nuclear issues."
The previous three rounds of the six-party talks - involving China, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea [DPRK], the United States, the Republic of Korea [ROK], Russia, and Japan - were held in Beijing in August 2003, February 2004, and June 2004, respectively.
Source: BBC Monitoring Asia Pacific
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