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Six-party talks on NKorea resume after nine-month break
Beijing, July 11 (PTI) The six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear disarmament resumed here Thursday after a nine-month break with negotiators focussing on verifyingPyongyang's dossier of its nuclear programmes.
The fresh round of talks come after North Korea recently handed over its nuclear declaration to host China and demolished a cooling tower at the Yongbyon nuclear reactor todemonstrate its commitment to denuclearisation.
Envoys from the six nations -- China, Russia, the U.S., North Korea, South Korea and Japan -- gathered in Beijing for the three-day talks in an effort to capitalise on recent progress that saw the North finally hand over a declaration ofits atomic activities last month.
"This meeting is a power station for the comprehensive implementation of second phase of the action plan, as well as a "turning point" for the six-party talks to go into a new phase," Chinese negotiator Wu Dawei said at the openingceremony.
Wu, also Chinese Vice-Foreign Minister, said our goal was to realise the second phase of the action plan in "a comprehensive and balanced way" with joint efforts from all the sides and promote the process of the talks into a newphase.
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill said before the meeting that after the verification is agreed upon, it itself would take several weeks or even months. "Obviously, we're going to focus very much on a verification regime towrap up this phase," he said.
After North Korea submitted its nuclear declaration, the U.S. had announced it would remove Pyongyang from its list of state sponsors of terrorism within 45 days if it met all itsobligations under the six-way talks.
"All the sides are meeting for the same goal, and the terminal is to realise the denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula and normalisation of relations between relevantcountries," Wu was quoted as saying by Xinhua news agency.
Indicating the difficult path ahead, North Korea said last week that it would not embark on further measures towards denuclearisation until the US and others provided it withpromised fuel oil and political benefits.
The six-party talks had hammered out a disarmament deal in February last year after coaxing North Korea to abandon its nuclear programme in exchange for diplomatic and economicincentives.
North Korea had agreed to give up all nuclear programmes and declare its nuke facilities by the end of 2007, a deadlineit missed after wrangling over aid.
In a breakthrough recently, it, however, submitted the nuclear declaration, paving the way for the negotiations to move on to the next phase of action. PTI
The fresh round of talks come after North Korea recently handed over its nuclear declaration to host China and demolished a cooling tower at the Yongbyon nuclear reactor todemonstrate its commitment to denuclearisation.
Envoys from the six nations -- China, Russia, the U.S., North Korea, South Korea and Japan -- gathered in Beijing for the three-day talks in an effort to capitalise on recent progress that saw the North finally hand over a declaration ofits atomic activities last month.
"This meeting is a power station for the comprehensive implementation of second phase of the action plan, as well as a "turning point" for the six-party talks to go into a new phase," Chinese negotiator Wu Dawei said at the openingceremony.
Wu, also Chinese Vice-Foreign Minister, said our goal was to realise the second phase of the action plan in "a comprehensive and balanced way" with joint efforts from all the sides and promote the process of the talks into a newphase.
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill said before the meeting that after the verification is agreed upon, it itself would take several weeks or even months. "Obviously, we're going to focus very much on a verification regime towrap up this phase," he said.
After North Korea submitted its nuclear declaration, the U.S. had announced it would remove Pyongyang from its list of state sponsors of terrorism within 45 days if it met all itsobligations under the six-way talks.
"All the sides are meeting for the same goal, and the terminal is to realise the denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula and normalisation of relations between relevantcountries," Wu was quoted as saying by Xinhua news agency.
Indicating the difficult path ahead, North Korea said last week that it would not embark on further measures towards denuclearisation until the US and others provided it withpromised fuel oil and political benefits.
The six-party talks had hammered out a disarmament deal in February last year after coaxing North Korea to abandon its nuclear programme in exchange for diplomatic and economicincentives.
North Korea had agreed to give up all nuclear programmes and declare its nuke facilities by the end of 2007, a deadlineit missed after wrangling over aid.
In a breakthrough recently, it, however, submitted the nuclear declaration, paving the way for the negotiations to move on to the next phase of action. PTI
