U.S. Assistant Secretary of State and chief negotiator Christopher Hill arrives for the Six-Party Talks in Beijing, Feb. 7, 2007.   Chinanews, Feb.8 - The Six-Party Talks aimed at denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula will resume this afternoon in Beijing amid hopes for concrete progress toward persuading Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear program.

 

Related sources indicate that Vice-Foreign Minister Wu Dawei, the top Chinese negotiator to the talks, held a series of discussions with his counterparts from the United States, the Republic of Korea (ROK), Japan and Russia after they arrived in Beijing yesterday.

 

The fresh session of the six-nation negotiations will be the third phase of the fifth round of the Six-Party Talks since they were launched in 2003. The last phase recessed without a breakthrough in December last year after five days of negotiations.