Common principles on N. Korea issue being drafted: US

The US said on Wednesday that drafting of ‘common principles’ to guide future negotiations to rid North Korea of its nuclear weapo...

The US said on Wednesday that drafting of ‘common principles’ to guide future negotiations to rid North Korea of its nuclear weapons was underway at the six-party talks.

The six-party talks, hosted by China, should focus on denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula, said a senior US official at the end of the second day of in-camera talks, which ended inconclusively here.

‘‘The six sides to the talks are drafting common principles to guide future negotiations,’’ the Xinhua news agency reported, without identifying the US official.

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The US negotiators will meet the delegations from Russia and North Korea tomorrow, he said. The US delegation met its counterparts from South Korea, Japan and China here today, he added.

Meanwhile, the Russian delegation head, Alexander Alexeyev, said that today’s discussions did not achieve any result. Earlier reports said that North Korea’s Vice Foreign Minister and chief delegate, Kim Kye-gwan rejected as ‘‘unreasonable’’ a 2004 US proposal aimed at resolving the stand-off over Pyongyang’s secretive nuclear weapons programme.

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