Condoleezza Rice will pay a two-day visit to China this week during which she will discuss ways to restart the North Korean nuclear talks
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Beijing, July 6 The US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will pay a two-day visit to China this week during which she will discuss ways to restart the North Korean nuclear talks, Taiwan issue, reform of the United Nations, bilateral and other international issues of common concern.
Ms Rice would arrive in Beijing on July 9 for her second official visit to the communist nation in less than four months. She last visited China in March, officials said here on Wednesday. During her stay, she will hold talks with senior government officials on political and economic issues of bilateral concern, Xinhua news agency quoted a press statement of the US department of state. China is the first-leg of Ms Rice’s four-nation five-day Asian tour that will take her to Thailand, South Korea and Japan, it said.
The North Korean nuclear issue, cooperation on fighting terrorism and transnational crimes, the tsunami recovery and reconstruction efforts will figure in discussions she will have with officials from the four countries, it said. China, who hosts the six-party talks on the North Korean nuclear issue, had on Tuesday said that there was no timetable for restarting the parleys but urged all sides, especially Pyongyang and Washington, to show flexibility to facilitate early resumption of the negotiations. “There is no time-table to restart the six-party talks,” Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao told reporters when asked to comment on the recent contacts between arch-rivals, North Korea and the US in New York.
“We hope all relevant parties, especially the United States and Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea’s official name), can increase contacts, release more positive signals, sincerely push the peace talks process in a flexible, constructive and pragmatic way, so as to create a favourable condition for resuming talks at an early date,” he said."
Beijing, July 6 The US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will pay a two-day visit to China this week during which she will discuss ways to restart the North Korean nuclear talks, Taiwan issue, reform of the United Nations, bilateral and other international issues of common concern.
Ms Rice would arrive in Beijing on July 9 for her second official visit to the communist nation in less than four months. She last visited China in March, officials said here on Wednesday. During her stay, she will hold talks with senior government officials on political and economic issues of bilateral concern, Xinhua news agency quoted a press statement of the US department of state. China is the first-leg of Ms Rice’s four-nation five-day Asian tour that will take her to Thailand, South Korea and Japan, it said.
The North Korean nuclear issue, cooperation on fighting terrorism and transnational crimes, the tsunami recovery and reconstruction efforts will figure in discussions she will have with officials from the four countries, it said. China, who hosts the six-party talks on the North Korean nuclear issue, had on Tuesday said that there was no timetable for restarting the parleys but urged all sides, especially Pyongyang and Washington, to show flexibility to facilitate early resumption of the negotiations. “There is no time-table to restart the six-party talks,” Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao told reporters when asked to comment on the recent contacts between arch-rivals, North Korea and the US in New York.
“We hope all relevant parties, especially the United States and Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea’s official name), can increase contacts, release more positive signals, sincerely push the peace talks process in a flexible, constructive and pragmatic way, so as to create a favourable condition for resuming talks at an early date,” he said."
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