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Six-Party Nuclear Talks Start in China
Talks on North Korea’s nuclear programs opened in Beijing on Thursday. China called for a deal to be signed within three or four days as positions of the parties are already clear.
Media reported before the start of Beijing talks that U.S. and North Korean had allegedly signed a memorandum which would stop the nuclear reactor in Yongbyon in return for half a million tons of oil in supply to North Korea.
Kim Kye-Kwan, North Korea’s chief negotiator, said on arrival in Beijing that his country was “prepared to discuss the initial steps”, but the outcome of the talks depends on whether the United States “will abandon its hostile policy against North Korea.”
China was due to begin circulating a draft agreement late on Thursday or early Friday. The draft proposes stopping within two months the work of North Korean nuclear sites, including the plutonium-producing Yongbyon reactor, and supplying Pyongyang with alternative energy sources.
Alexander Losyukov, head of the Russian delegation, said shortly before the six-party discussion that one “should not expect too much” from it.
Other participants have also dismissed hopes of an immediate settlement of the nuclear standoff.
www.kommersant.com
All the Article in Russian as of Feb. 09, 2007
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