Chief U.S. negotiator to the six-party talks Christopher Hill said on Thursday that parties concerned were trying to convene meetings of two working groups regarding U.S.-DPRK relations and DPRK-Japan relations in late August.
The working groups will meet separately, in the same time period, according to Hill.
He made the remarks after talks with the Japanese chief negotiator to the six-party talks Kenichiro Sasae on the sidelines of a working group meeting on denuclearization in Shenyang, notheast China.
Sasae is in Shenyang specifically for talks with the United States and is not involved in the working group meeting.
The two-day meeting, which began on Thursday afternoon, will focus on technical issues involved in the disablement of the nuclear facilities of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and the declaration of its nuclear programs.
Hill said he expected parties concerned to achieve some "common understanding" of what would be involved in the disablement and declaration.
"I am looking forward to very good and substantive discussions about some technical issues," he added.
Hill said he and Sasae had a very good discussion on all the aspects of the six-party talks including the five working groups, and especially the two working groups on bilateral relations.
"We are both trying to schedule these two working groups...probably in the last part of August...but it depends on the schedule," he said.
The chief delegates to the six-party talks agreed in their last meeting in July to hold meetings of the five working groups in August. In early August, a working group meeting on economy and energy cooperation was held at the village of Panmunjom on the border between the north and south of the Korean peninsula.
The first meeting of the denuclearization working group was held in Beijing on March 17 and 18 ahead of the sixth round of nuclear talks.
Source: Xinhua
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