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DPRK to abandon nuke plans with conditions
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2004-06-23 16:32

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) would give up all its nuclear programs once the United States abandoned its hostile policies toward the DPRK, said Kim Kye-gwan, DPRK deputy foreign minister and head of the DPRK delegation, at the opening ceremony of the third round of six-party talks Wednesday afternoon in Beijing.


Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Wang Yi, (3rd from L), leads the way to a meeting room for chief delegates to the six-party talks on the North Korean nuclear issue at Beijing's Diaoyutai State Guesthouse on June 23, 2004. From left are US Assistant Secretary of State James Kelly, South Korean Deputy Foreign Minister Lee Soo-hyuck, Wang Yi, North Korean Deputy Foreign Minister Kim Kye Guan, Japanese Chief Delegate Mitoji Yabunaka, and Russian Ambassador at Large Alexander Alexeyev. [Reuters]

ROK: determined to solve nuke issue
 
 
Lee Soo-Hyuck, head of the Republic of Korea delegation for the third round of the six-party talks, said here Wednesday at the opening ceremony of the talks that the ROK side was in a determined mind to fulfill the task of solving the Korean nuclear issue, calling for the concerned parties to eliminate distrust and narrow the difference and make progress in building a nuclear-weapon-free Korean peninsula.

Japan: expects substantial, comprehensive discussions 
 
Japan expects substantial and comprehensive discussions in the third round of six-party talks, said the Japanese delegation head Mitoji Yabunaka here Wednesday at the opening ceremony of the six-party talks.

Russia: Nuke-weapon-free process must proceed within intl law framework

The nuclear-weapon-free process must proceed within the international law framework, Alexander Alexeyev, Russian delegation head said here Wednesday.

Alexander Alexeyev, also special envoy of Russian Foreign Ministry, made the remarks at the opening ceremony of the third round of six-party talks on the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue. Enditem
 

China: 2 topics to be discussed in talks 
 
Chinese delegation head to the six-party talks and Vice Foreign Minister Wang Yi said in Beijing Wednesday that two major topics, how to realize a nuclear weapon-free KoreanPeninsula and how to make the first step toward the nuclear weapon-free goal, will be discussed in the third round of six-party talks.

Wang made the remarks at the opening ceremony of the new round of talks started Wednesday afternoon in Beijing.



 
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