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China reiterates call for holding talks on Korean Peninsula
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BEIJING, Dec. 11 Kyodo -
China's chief nuclear envoy Wu Dawei met his Japanese counterpart Akitaka Saiki
in Beijing on Saturday and stressed the importance of holding an emergency
meeting of six regional powers to defuse heightened tensions on the Korean
Peninsula.
The talks came after Chinese State Councilor Dai Bingguo visited Pyongyang
earlier this week for a meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il after the
North's deadly shelling of a South Korean island on Nov. 23 and the revelation
of Pyongyang's uranium enrichment program.
Saiki said Wu gave him a ''detailed'' briefing about Dai's talks Thursday with
Kim, but Saiki declined to reveal their substance, such as what sort of
''important consensus'' Kim and Dai reached.
Saiki said Wu, special representative for Korean Peninsula affairs,
''reiterated the importance'' of convening six-party emergency consultation,
which Beijing proposed in late November, but Saiki showed reservations about
Wu's call.
Saiki said North Korea must first take ''responsible action based on the rules
of the international community,'' repeating a call by Japan, the United States
and South Korea on North Korea to cease its provocative actions and fulfill its
commitment to a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula.
Saiki, director general of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian
Affairs Bureau, called for ''increased efforts'' by China to encourage North
Korea to move in such a direction.
''If we were to hold talks, we need to achieve results. If we are to produce
certain results, we need preparation, atmosphere and such things,'' Saiki told
journalists. ''Japan is not interested in talks for the sake of talks.''
Wu accompanied Dai on the latest trip to Pyongyang, where Dai met separately
with Kim and Vice Premier Kang Sok Ju, who is in charge of nuclear issues and
U.S. affairs.
The envisaged consultation would bring together chief delegates to the
six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear programs, which group the two Koreas,
China, Japan, Russia and the United States.
==Kyodo
2010-12-11 23:26:34
BEIJING, Dec. 11 Kyodo -
China's chief nuclear envoy Wu Dawei met his Japanese counterpart Akitaka Saiki
in Beijing on Saturday and stressed the importance of holding an emergency
meeting of six regional powers to defuse heightened tensions on the Korean
Peninsula.
The talks came after Chinese State Councilor Dai Bingguo visited Pyongyang
earlier this week for a meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il after the
North's deadly shelling of a South Korean island on Nov. 23 and the revelation
of Pyongyang's uranium enrichment program.
Saiki said Wu gave him a ''detailed'' briefing about Dai's talks Thursday with
Kim, but Saiki declined to reveal their substance, such as what sort of
''important consensus'' Kim and Dai reached.
Saiki said Wu, special representative for Korean Peninsula affairs,
''reiterated the importance'' of convening six-party emergency consultation,
which Beijing proposed in late November, but Saiki showed reservations about
Wu's call.
Saiki said North Korea must first take ''responsible action based on the rules
of the international community,'' repeating a call by Japan, the United States
and South Korea on North Korea to cease its provocative actions and fulfill its
commitment to a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula.
Saiki, director general of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian
Affairs Bureau, called for ''increased efforts'' by China to encourage North
Korea to move in such a direction.
''If we were to hold talks, we need to achieve results. If we are to produce
certain results, we need preparation, atmosphere and such things,'' Saiki told
journalists. ''Japan is not interested in talks for the sake of talks.''
Wu accompanied Dai on the latest trip to Pyongyang, where Dai met separately
with Kim and Vice Premier Kang Sok Ju, who is in charge of nuclear issues and
U.S. affairs.
The envisaged consultation would bring together chief delegates to the
six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear programs, which group the two Koreas,
China, Japan, Russia and the United States.
==Kyodo
2010-12-11 23:26:34
