Negotiators to the ongoing six-party talks all agreed at the
luncheon on Thursday to strive for substantive results, including a
joint document, in the talks on the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue,
an official with the South Korean delegation said Thursday
afternoon.
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The official said on condition of anonymity that South Korea and
US delegations had a one-hour meeting that began at 2:30 Thursday
afternoon. At the meeting, the US side briefed the?South
Korean?side of the one-on-one contact between the US
and?North Korea?Thursday morning.
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The US and?South Korean?delegations reached a new
consensus at the meeting, the official said at a news briefing.
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North Korea?and the US had their three-hour one-on-one
meeting on Thursday morning, but neither side has given any details
of it.
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Earlier media reports quoted the US delegation head as saying
that a drafted joint document for the six-party talks would come
into being in 24 hours. But
the?South?Korean?official said that he did not hear
about that.
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A meeting of delegation heads was previously planned for
Thursday morning but was postponed to Friday morning, said the
official.
(Xinhua News Agency July 28, 2005)