Thanks to Jet Jaguar for starting this thread.
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1934359/posts
CORRECTED: 6-way nuke talks face delay due to ‘difficult situation’: Komura+
Breitbart.com ^ | Dec. 4, 2007 | Komura+ (AP)
Posted on 12/03/2007 11:42:50 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
(Kyodo)—Japanese Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura indicated Tuesday that a meeting of chief delegates to six-nation talks on denuclearizing North Korea, which Japan, China, South Korea and others had initially hoped would begin on Thursday, will now likely be delayed.
“At first we wanted to have it from Dec. 6-8 and we discussed it at the trilateral (foreign ministerial) meeting between Japan, China and South Korea in Singapore recently,” Komura told reporters. “But right now, a difficult situation has developed and I have been told coordination is still under way.”
He did not elaborate on what the difficulties were.
Under an Oct. 3 six-way agreement, a meeting of the heads of delegations from North and South Korea, China, Japan, Russia and the United States will take place to discuss the agenda for a meeting of foreign ministers from the six countries in Beijing.
North Korea agreed under the deal to disable three key nuclear facilities in Yongbyon and to declare all of its nuclear programs by the end of the year.
U.S. top nuclear negotiator Christopher Hill arrived in Pyongyang on Monday for a three-day visit to monitor the progress of the disablement process and to meet with his North Korean counterpart.
On the North’s promised declaration of its nuclear programs, Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Shotaro Yachi said Monday he has “not heard” that it has been made, imply that Pyongyang is responsible for the delay in realizing the talks.
Komura met his Chinese and South Korean counterparts in Singapore on Nov. 20 on the sidelines of a regional summit related to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
Thanks to Nick Grace for another edition of Global Crisis Watch.
http://threatswatch.org/gcw/
http://threatswatch.org/site-resources/podcast/gcw_071203.mp3
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December 3, 2007 [Listen Here]
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Global Crisis Watch gauges the significance of Osama bin Laden’s latest message and the latest terror risks in Europe, reviews the situation in Sudan in context of the Gibbons fallout, and covers the deteriorating situation in Eastern Chad amidst the rising influence of Wahhabis. Guests: Olivier Guitta, editor of The Crossaint in Washington, and Ramadji Doumnande, leading Chadian political activist and editor of Ramadji.com in Rochester, NY.
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