Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Wang
Yi said in Beijing Tuesday that China will participate in the third
round of six-party talks with a stance of resolving goals,
consolidating achievements, actively mediating and steadily
promoting.
Wang, also head of the Chinese
delegation for the talks, told a joint interview by Chinese media
that the goals of denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula and
resolving the nuclear issue peacefully through dialogue should
never fluctuate under any circumstance in a bid to preserve
confidence and determination in maintaining peace and stability on
the Korean Peninsula.
To consolidate achievements means
to carefully safeguard those hard-won consensuses reached by all
sides and accumulated in past peace talks to stabilize the basis
for peace talks, Wang said.
China will, with an objective and
fair attitude, actively promote the peace cause and the talks, push
all sides to have more contact and build up mutual trust, to seek
and expand common stance while reserving differences, he
said.
Given the difficulties and complex
factors, sober mindedness and patience should be maintained, Wang
said, noting the peace talks should be pushed forward step-by-step
at the correct direction with a steady pace.
The third round of six-party
talks, involving the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the
United States, the Republic of Korea, Russia, Japan and China will
start in the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on
Wednesday.
Chinese Foreign Ministry
spokeswoman Zhang Qiyue said Tuesday afternoon that during the
just-concluded second working-level meeting since Monday, the six
parties had an exchange of in-depth views on building a
nuclear-weapon-free Korean Peninsula and freezing nuclear
facilities as well as corresponding measures.
Essential preparations were made
at the meeting for the coming third round of six-party talks,
acknowledged Zhang, saying that all parties held that the working
group's discussions are "useful and
constructive."
(Xinhua News Agency June 23,
2004)