Hu to visit US, Canada, Mexico
(China Daily)
Updated: 2005-08-26 05:55

President Hu Jintao will pay state visits to the United States, Canada and Mexico from September 5 to 17, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Kong Quan said on Thursday in Beijing.

During the trip, Hu will also attend the United Nations 60th anniversary summit.

Hu will visit the three nations at the invitation of US President George W. Bush, Canadian Governor-General Adrienne Clarkson and Mexican President Vicente Fox, Kong said.

In an interview with the Xinhua News Agency, Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing said President Hu's visit comes at a time of stable China-US relations with frequent top level contacts, and increasing communication at other levels and in other sectors.

Li said President Hu's visit to the United States is of great significance to relations between the two countries.

In another development, the Six-Party Talks on the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula may resume next week, Chinese Vice-Foreign Minister Wu Dawei said yesterday.

"We are considering September 2," a spokesman for Japan's Social Democratic Party quoted visiting Wu Dawei as saying after a meeting with the party's leader, according to Xinhuanet news.

The spokesman said Wu did not elaborate on whether the United States or the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) had agreed to the date.

The six nations - China, Japan, the DPRK and ROK, Russia and the United States - failed to hammer out a joint document aimed at getting the DPRK to abandon its nuclear programmes during the latest round of talks, which began in late July in Beijing, due to differences between Pyongyang and Washington.

Wu Dawei met Japanese Foreign Ministry officials on Wednesday, including Japan's top negotiator at the Six-Party Talks, Kenichiro Sasae.

The discussions centred on the DPRK's nuclear programme, the timing and agenda of the next round of meetings, and relations between the DPRK and Japan.

(China Daily 08/26/2005 page1)

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