Japanese chief negotiator Kenichiro Sasae said today that the
draft common document was still under intense
debate.??
Sasae told reporters this morning that the six parties to the
Korean Peninsula nuclear issue would continue discussing the draft
common document and all the participants would work together to
achieve a good result.
The Japanese side would put national interests into the common
document, he said, adding no bilateral consultation had been held
so far between Japan and North Korea during the ongoing six-party
talks.
This round of talks that groups China, the US, Russia, Japan,
South and North Korea entered its eighth day today, and it is still
hard to say when it will close.
Sources said chief negotiators of the six parties would meet
today, following the China-North Korea and China-US
consultations.
(Xinhua News Agency August 2, 2005)