There was no substantive disagreement among the six parties
regarding the following steps to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula,
US chief negotiator Christopher Hill said on Saturday.
"We don't really have any substantive disagreement among the
parties...we are pretty satisfied that we know the direction we are
heading...and what we are going to accomplish by the end of the
year," Hill told reporters Saturday evening after attending the
dinner meeting hosted by Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Dai
Bingguo.
"I think there will be some kind of statement. But I just don't
know how much detail there will be in the statement," Hill
said.
"After the dinner we had a short meeting," said Hill, adding
that the Chinese side showed other parties its current progress on
making the statement.
"I think there'll have to be some additional meetings, and then
we will have to get on with some of the tasks that we've laid out,"
he said.
Details like what type of teams are going to fulfil the
disablement and the sequence of the disabling actions were
discussed in the meeting, Hill said.
As for the possibility of extending the stay in China, he said
he is "definitely leaving tomorrow" as he has "other obligations
back in states."
The second phase of the sixth round of the six-party talks,
which involve China, the US, North and South Korea, Russia and
Japan, started on Thursday and is scheduled to end on Sunday.
(Xinhua News Agency September 30, 2007)
