The third round of six-party talks on the Korean Peninsula
nuclear issue will conclude Saturday at the Diaoyutai State
Guesthouse in downtown Beijing, a source with the press office of
the talks said Friday.??
There will be no closing ceremony, the source said, adding that
the exact timetable for the conclusion of the talks has not set
yet.
Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Wang Yi, also the head of Chinese
delegation, will hold a press conference, which will be televised
live, sometime after the talks end, the source said.
The third round of six-party talks started last Wednesday. All
parties in the last two days tabled their own proposals or detailed
plans for resolving the nuclear issue, and they also held
discussions on these plans Thursday, according to a source with the
Chinese Foreign Ministry.
The six parties include China, the Democratic People's Republic
of Korea, the United States, the Republic of Korea, Russia and
Japan.
(Xinhua News Agency June 25, 2004)