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China's new proposal on nuke talks praised
(AP)
Updated: 2005-09-18 20:50
"The draft proposed by China was an effort to breach remaining differences,"
Hill said. He called the proposal "a good effort to try to bridge the remaining
differences, which I believe are difficult but certainly not insurmountable."
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Kenichiro Sasae,
director-general of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian
Affairs Bureau and Japan's top negotiator for the six-party talks, speaks
to the media before continuation of talks in Beijing September 18, 2005.
[Reuters]
| North and South Korea, Japan, the U.S., China and Russia are all parties to
the talks.
On Saturday, Hill had said several of the countries involved had problems
with the wording of the Chinese-proposed compromise.
North Korea has not directly commented on the proposal, but after it was put
forward Friday, a spokesman for the North denounced efforts to get it to give up
its nuclear program without concessions by the United States.
Participants have offered economic aid, security guarantees from Washington
and free electricity from South Korea to North Korea in exchange for dismantling
its weapons program.
The North has demanded it be given a light-water nuclear reactor for
generating electricity before disarming, promising to open such a facility to
co-management and international inspections. Pyongyang was promised two
light-water reactors under a 1994 deal that fell apart in late 2002. Such
reactors are less easily diverted for weapons use.
"There is still a chance of reaching an agreement," Japanese envoy Kenichiro
Sasae said Sunday evening, sounding a more positive note than a day
before.
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