Participants to the ongoing six-party talks in Beijing are making efforts to fix their consensus at the talks in a written form, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zhang Qiyue said in Beijing Thursday.?

 

However, the final outcome is "hard to predict", Zhang said at a regular press conference.

 

Various parties began consultations before the talks, Zhang said, adding that whether such a common document can be passed depends on the efforts of the parties.

 

China has made it clear that the goal of China in the six-party talks is to "maintain a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula."

 

China hopes the talks "to proceed smoothly, achieve a good result and the dialogue mechanism to continue," she said.

 

The six-party talks, involving China, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the United States, the Republic of Korea, Russia and Japan, started Wednesday morning and will continue one more day on Friday.

 

(Xinhua News Agency February 26, 2004)