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Japan, US nuclear negotiators meet over six-party talks
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 20 - 01 - 2007


Chief US nuclear negotiator Christopher Hill said
on Saturday in Tokyo that North Korea wishes to resume the dialogues
on its nuclear weapons programme as soon as possible, DPA reported.
"We agreed on the need to get back on the six-party talks as soon
as possible," Hill told reporters in Tokyo about the talks he held
with his North Korean counterpart Kim Kye Gwan in Berlin earlier this
week.
Hill called the meeting "useful" and added: "I thought it was
significant that the DPRK did want to proceed with six-party talks
and I think there was a view between the two of us that we should try
to have the six-party talks as soon as we can have them." DPRK is the
acronym for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, North Korea's
official name.
In Tokyo, Hill met with his Japanese counterpart to discuss the
prospects of resuming the six-party talks and to reaffirm Japan's
cooperation in the talks, media reports said.
The assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific
affairs and his counterpart Kenichiro Sasae were to discuss the
groundworks for the next round of six-party talks, involving the two
Koreas, the United States, China, Japan and Russia.
Upon arrival on Saturday, Hill said he hoped to resume the
negotiations later this month at the earliest, adding that it would
depend on the party's host country China to see it happen, according
to Kyodo News Agency.
Japanese Foreign Ministry officials said Hill would brief Sasae on
the details of his three-day talks with North Korean negotiator, Kim
Kye Gwan, in Berlin earlier this week.
Sasae, director general of the Foreign Ministry's Asian and
Oceanian Affairs Bureau, is expected to report to Hill that Japan
would encourage North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons programme
and take various actions including accepting inspections from the
International Atomic Energy Agency, Kyodo said, quoting an official.
Hill is to leave for Beijing on Sunday.


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