Negotiators to the six-party talks on the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue started negotiation with "constructive" meetings on Thursday, said top Russian envoy Alexander Losyukov.
The second phase meeting of the sixth round of the six-party talks had been going on as planned, and denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and aid to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) would be discussed in the following days, Losyukov told reporters.
The delegations listened to the reports of working teams and held bilateral discussions to exchange views on problems that they were concerned with on Thursday, said the Russian negotiator.
The negotiation, scheduled to end on Sunday, is aimed at firming up an action plan for the next stage of the denuclearization process.
The DPRK shut down and sealed the nuclear facilities at Nongbyon in July under an aid-for-denuclearization agreement reached in February this year.
According to agreements, the DPRK is required to declare all of its nuclear programs and disable all existing nuclear facilities in exchange for a total of one million tons of heavy fuel oil or equivalent aid, with an initial shipment of 50,000 tons.
The talks involve China, the DPRK, the United States, the Republic of Korea (ROK), Russia and Japan.
Source: Xinhua
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