CHINA: U.S. ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE CHRISTOPHER HILL ARRIVES IN BEIJING AMID EFFORTS TO RESTART SIX-PARTY TALKS

Record ID: 222858

  • Title: CHINA: U.S. ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE CHRISTOPHER HILL ARRIVES IN BEIJING AMID EFFORTS TO RESTART SIX-PARTY TALKS
  • Date: 26th April 2005
  • Summary: (BN05) BEIJING, CHINA (APRIL 26, 2005) (REUTERS) 1. SLV U.S. ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE CHRISTOPHER HILL COMING OUT OF VIP AREA PULL IN MCU (English) U.S. ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE CHRISTOPHER HILL SAYING: "Well, we don't know (if we're any closer to six-party talks). I'm going to have some discussions today and tomorrow morning with the Chinese, the hosts of the talks, and we need to see where we are" 0.18 2. CU U.S. FLAG ON CAR 0.22 3. MCU (English) U.S. ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE CHRISTOPHER HILL SAYING: "We're trying to get the six-party process going, we've got five countries that are there and one that continues to stay away, so as soon as we get the North Koreans to the talks we look forward to a very vigorous negotiation...I never make a bet on a game I'm playing in" 0.40 4. SV HILL GOING TO CAR/GETTING IN AND 0.48 5. SLV CAR CARRYING HILL DRIVING AWAY 0.53 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: BEIJING, CHINA
  • Country: China
  • Reuters ID: LVA1IAHNY8NSPC88749K1I18XGFF
  • Story Text: U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill
    arrives in Beijing amid efforts to restart six-party talks.




    The top U.S. envoy to nuclear negotiations arrived
    in Beijing on Tuesday (April 26) for talks aimed at
    breaking the deadlock over North Korea's nuclear weapons
    programme.

    U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill is
    set to discuss how to step up efforts to resolve the crisis.

    Hill held talks in Seoul on Monday (April 25) and will
    head to Tokyo after Beijing.

    "Well, we don't know (if we're any closer to six-party
    talks). I'm going to have some discussions today and
    tomorrow morning withthe Chinese, the hosts of the talks
    and we need to see where we are," Hill said.

    Three rounds of talks by the two Koreas, the U.S.,
    Japan, China and Russia have produced no substantive
    progress. A fourth round never happened after Pyongyang
    said Washington must first drop what it called a hostile
    policy against it.

    "We're trying to get the six-party process going,
    we've got five countries that are there and one that
    continues to stay away so as soon as we get the North
    Koreans to the talks we look forward to a very vigorous
    negotiation... I never make a bet on a game I'm playing
    in," Hill said.

    Washington has said North Korea could be taken to the
    United Nations Security Council for debate on possible
    sanctions if it continued to snub the six-party talks.

    The talks follow U.S. media reports that North Korea
    might be preparing to test a nuclear weapon in the near
    future.

    South Korea last week said that if North Korea went
    ahead with such a test then it would only isolate itself
    further from the international community.

    Washington has said its offer of security guarantees in
    return for a complete dismantling of the North's nuclear
    programmes still stands.

    North Korea recently suspended the operation of a
    nuclear reactor in a move that analysts said could be
    intended to extract fuel that could be processed into
    material for nuclear weapons or to gain leverage by
    appearing to do so.




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