The six-party talks should focus on the denuclearization of the
Korea Peninsula, a US senior government official said at a news
briefing in Beijing Wednesday.??
The official, who spoke under anonymous condition, said that at
the plenary this morning, all the parties concerned discussed the
need to focus on the denuclearization of the Korea Peninsula.
"The real efforts are to keep focusing on the denuclearization
of the Korean Peninsula," the official said.
He said participants were now focusing on agreeing some form of
statement as a framework, "a set of agreed principles on the basis
of which we can narrow the scope of issues and lay out an eventual
schedule for negotiation of an overall agreement."
"We obviously have some differences with them about the
sequencing of these issues," he added.
The official said it is not necessary to solve all the issues
within the framework of six-party talks. Instead, some of the
issues could be solved through bilateral mechanism.
The forth round of six-party talks on the Korean Peninsula
nuclear issue entered the seconded day yesterday. According to the
official, delegates from all the parties concerned held a plenary
session lasting almost three hours at which they clarified their
respective positions. Following the plenary session, the US
delegation held bilateral talks with the Chinese, South Korean and
Japanese delegations respectively.
(Xinhua News Agency July 28, 2005)