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BEIJING, Nov 1 Asia Pulse - Stalled talks on the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue will resume soon, China's Foreign Ministry said yesterday.
At China's initiative, heads of delegations to the Six-Party Talks from China, North Korea and the United States had an informal meeting yesterday, the ministry said in a statement posted on its website.
"The three parties engaged in a candid and in-depth exchange of views on continuing the Six-Party Talks. The three parties agreed to carry out the Six-Party Talks in the near future, at a time convenient to the six parties," it said. Russia, Japan and South Korea are the other three sides.
In Washington, US President George W. Bush welcomed the planned resumption of the Six-Party Talks.
"I am pleased and I want to thank the Chinese," the president told reporters at the White House.
North Korea, which announced on October 9 that it had conducted a successful nuclear test, has refused to return to the talks since November last year citing financial sanctions the United States imposed against it.
China is the host of the Six-Party Talks, which began in 2003 and are aimed at making the peninsula nuclear free.
Source: HighBeam Research, STALLED SIX-PARTY TALKS TO RESUME SOON, SAYS CHINA.