Foreign and Military Affairs

China pushes to get six-party talks back on track

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-04-13 21:37

BEIJING - China here on Tuesday called on the parties involved in the six-party talks to maintain contacts and dialogue, show more flexibility and work together to create conditions for the resumption of the talks.

Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu told a regular press briefing Tuesday that the parties involved had intensified contacts recently to discuss how to restart the six-party talks.

Jiang said, China has consistently supported the reconciliation and cooperation between the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and the Republic of Korea (ROK).

As a friend and neighbor of both the DPRK and the ROK, China believed that improvement of DPRK-ROK relations and promotion of reconciliation and cooperation between them were in the common interests of their people and conducive to regional peace, stability and prosperity, she said.

The six-party talks over the DPRK's nuclear issues, involving China, the ROK, the DPRK, the United States, Japan and Russia, were launched in 2003 but stalled in April 2009 when Pyongyang pulled out of the talks in protest of UN condemnation of its missile tests.