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BEIJING, CHINA - CHINA urged all sides trying to rein in North Korea's nuclear weapons programme on Tuesday to engage fully to achieve results sooner rather than later.
US Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill is due in Beijing on Tuesday for talks with North Korean diplomat Kim Kye Gwan and other delegates to the stop-start six-party talks which China has hosted for years with little noticeable result.
'They will exchange views on advancing the six-party talks, and we hope that the other parties will be able to engage in full and effective communications,' Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang told a news conference.
'This would help to implement as quickly as possible and in a full and balanced way the actions of the second phase.'
Reclusive North Korea promised to produce a declaration on its nuclear programme as part of a broader multilateral deal under which North Korea, which detonated an atomic device in Oct 2006, agreed to abandon all its nuclear programmes in exchange for economic and diplomatic incentives.
The six-party agreement was struck by the two Koreas, China, Japan, Russia and US.
South Korean President Lee Myung Bak also visits China this week, aiming to boost business with the country's biggest trade partner. -- REUTERS
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