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South Korean, US Officials Discuss Coordinated Stance at Beijing Talks

Posted on: Tuesday, 26 July 2005, 06:00 CDT

Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)

Beijing, 26 July: Delegations of the Republic of Korea (ROK) and the United States to the fourth round of the six-party talks held a 60-minute consultation Tuesday [26 July] morning to exchange views and coordinate their stances in the ongoing talks.

The bilateral meeting was held after the heads of the six delegations conferred early Tuesday morning. At the one-hour discussions, the two sides appraised the heads' meeting and exchanged views on to which direction the future talks will advance, an official with the ROK delegation revealed on condition of anonymity.

He said that the ROK and the US delegations reached new consensus on how to make the current round of six-way talks to achieve a substantive result. But he rejected to reveal any concrete contents of the bilateral consultations.

The ROK official said that the six delegations will hold various bilateral and multilateral negotiations to coordinate their stances and push forward the six-nation talks.

Song Min-soon, head of the ROK delegation and deputy foreign minister of the nation, said at the opening session of the current Korean nuclear issue talks that the ROK will provide 2m kWh of electricity for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) if the DPRK abandons its nuclear programmes.

The ROK and US delegations held a bilateral meeting on Monday morning before the six-party talks reopened.

Source: BBC Monitoring Asia Pacific

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