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China's new envoy to attend Moscow meeting of six-party talks

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-02-12 21:28

BEIJING -- China's newly-appointed ambassador in charge of affairs relating to the Korean Peninsula Yang Houlan will attend the third meeting of the six-party talks for peace and security in Northeast Asia in Moscow next week.

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"We will closely cooperate with other relevant parties, and help to achieve positive results at the meeting," said Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu at a regular press briefing here on Thursday.

The meeting, held in Moscow from February 19 to 20, will focus on the framework for broad six-party talks in which the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) agreed in 2005 to abandon its nuclear programs, according to reports.

The six-party talks, involving China, the DPRK, the US, Republic of Korea, Russia and Japan, have been focusing on the settlement of nuclear issues on the Korean peninsula since August 2003.