WORLD / Asia-Pacific
Six party talks to end present round
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2007-07-20 03:38
The chief delegates to the Six Party talks will end their present round
of discussions on Friday with a statement saying the Democratic People's
Republic of Korea (DPRK) will declare and disable its nuclear facilities
-- but no deadline, top U.S. negotiator Christopher Hill said Thursday.
The envoys will meet China's Foreign Minister at 10:00 a.m. on Friday,
followed by a quick head delegates meeting, said Hill.
"We should be out of there by noon," Hill said.
He said the statement would lay out the sequence of events in the second
phase, the tasks of all five working groups, and a new round Six Party
plenary session.
Although the negotiators had talked long on putting an overall deadline
in, the consensus "was kind of not very successful," Hill said.
"We should have working groups meet and have pretty clear ideas of how
the sequencing of fuel oil will go and how the declaration and
disablement will go before actually putting in the overall deadline,"
Hill said.
He still wanted the actions of the second phase to be taken by the end of
this December, "and I still think it's possible".
Hill said the working groups should make decisions.
"The working groups should give us menus and give some options that are
workable and then we need a real Six Party meeting to approve the
sequencing of events," Hill said.
The next round of talks would probably be held at the end of August, said
Hill.
The atmosphere was "businesslike" with everyone "very focused on the
tasks ahead".
"Of all the Six Party rounds I've gone through, this was the best one,"
Hill said.
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