CHINA: Japanese and Chinese Foreign Ministers meet for talks on North Korea in Shanghai

Record ID: 464336

  • Title: CHINA: Japanese and Chinese Foreign Ministers meet for talks on North Korea in Shanghai
  • Date: 29th September 2009
  • Summary: SHANGHAI, CHINA (SEPTEMBER 28, 2009) (REUTERS) CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTER YANG JIECHI (RIGHT) WALKING TO SHAKE HANDS WITH JAPANESE FOREIGN MINISTER KATSUYA OKADA YANG AND OKADA SHAKING HANDS YANG, OKADA AND OFFICIALS WALKING INTO MEETING OFFICIALS IN MEETING ROOM FOR CHINA-JAPAN BILATERAL MEETING YANG AND CHINESE OFFICIALS OKADA AND JAPANESE OFFICIALS OKADA OFFICIALS MEETING YANG MEETING IN PROGRESS
  • Embargoed: 14th October 2009 13:00
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  • Location: China
  • Country: China
  • Reuters ID: LVA6O72WJMM6OG4SDWRSCIEYODIQ
  • Story Text: Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada meets his Chinese counterpart Yang Jiechi in Shanghai to discuss North Korea.
    Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada met Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi for bilateral talks in Shanghai on Monday (September 28).
    Their talks are set to touch on bilateral ties as well as North Korea's nuclear programme.
    The foreign ministers from China, Japan and South Korea will meet later in a trilateral meeting on Monday afternoon, with North Korea's nuclear programme high on their agenda.
    Sputtering talks among the two Koreas, China, Japan, Russia and the United States ground to a halt about a year ago, with Pyongyang saying it will boycott the sessions until Washington drops its hostile attitude.
    China's prime minister will visit North Korea early next week for a trip that could help revive talks stalled for nearly a year on ending Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions.
    Analysts said China, the closest thing that destitute North Korea has for a major ally, would not be sending such a high profile visitor unless it has won some assurance from Pyongyang that could ease tensions over the nuclear standoff.
    Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao "will pay an official goodwill visit" to North Korea from Oct. 4 to 6, the KCNA news agency said in a one sentence dispatch on Monday.
    Earlier this month, Kim Jong-il told a visiting envoy from China that he will work to end his state's nuclear arms programme through multilateral talks.
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