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President Roh Moo-hyun will hold bilateral meetings with his counterparts from the U.S., Japan, China and Russia on the sidelines of the Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation meeting in Hanoi on Nov. 18-19 to discuss cooperation in the North Korean nuclear crisis. Summits with nations participating in six-party talks ¡°will be crucial in strengthening cooperation among them to succeed in dismantling North Korea's nuclear program,¡± Presidential spokesman Yoon Tae-young said Wednesday. Roh also meets the leaders of Canada and Vietnam one on one.
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U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill, Washington's top negotiator in six-party talks on North Korea¡¯s nuclear program, is mobbed by press as he arrives for a bilateral meeting with his South Korean counterpart at a hotel in Hanoi on Wednesday./AP-Yonhap
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He meets Chinese President Hu Jintao on Friday and U.S. President George W. Bush and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Saturday.
Meanwhile, chief negotiators from Seoul, Washington and Tokyo to the six-party talks met in Hanoi and reportedly agreed to demand that North Korea, once the talks resume, immediately suspends activity at its nuclear facilities and reports its nuclear weapons to implement a statement of principles agreed in the six-party talks last year. They agreed that the next six-party talks should happen by mid-December, a government official here said. "We've all made very clear that we don't accept North Korea as a nuclear state," U.S. chief negotiator Christopher Hill said before the meeting. "As far as we're concerned, the issue [in the six-way talks] is getting North Korea to honor its obligations under the September agreement, which is to be a non-nuclear state."
(englishnews@chosun.com )
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