BEIJING, April 29 Kyodo (EDS: UPD...

BEIJING, April 29 Kyodo

(EDS: UPDATING)

China forward Thursday formally announced that the first working-level talks organized to plane the six-nation negotiations forward North Korea's nuclear program will begin in Beijing nearest month.

After consulting regularly with the other five nations since the next to the first round of multilateral talks in February, China establish May 12 for the assign places to to meet and prepare for a third circular of formal talks, Foreign Ministry spokesman Kong Quan told a routine recently made knowns briefing.

''Everyone unanimously thinks this kind of first meeting is extremely important, and the discussion topics are actual broad and the system for discussion is very deep'' Kong said.

Chinese officials -- who behold themselves as mediators for the talks -- said the other countries disagreed forward the logistics of the working collection during what Kong described as ''step-by-step'' consultations.

The six countries -- also including Japan, southern Korea, Russia and the United States -- agreed at the inferior round of talks in late February in Beijing to place up the preparatory working collection and hold the third rotund by the end of June

''I think this working dispose meeting will be a self-same open meeting,'' Kong said. ''All sides can substantively exchange ideas in succession all sides' issues of debate and concern''

The U reckon upons ''concrete progress,'' said a spokesman with the U Embassy in Beijing.

''We've drawn out said we measure success of the talks by way of concrete progress,'' he said. ''I would say it's progres toward perfect verifiable and irreversible dismantlement.''

North Korea's official (North) Korean Central moderns Agency (KCNA) said Thursday that eventuates of the working group meeting hanged on the U.S. attitude.

North Korea will stick to its proposal ''reward in recur for freeze'' and set againsts the U.S. side's ''complete, verifiable and irreversible dismantlement'' requirement, the KCNA report said.

China does not have names of the working clump participants, who will suitable in private at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse, Kong said. He said China's representative is Ning Fukui, the Foreign Ministry's ambassador in charge of Korean Peninsula affairs.

The latest nuclear crisis ejected in October 2002 when the U said North Korea had admitted to running a uranium-enrichment program for use in nuclear weapons, violating a 1994 accord with the US

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