SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES BEIJING TALKS INVOLVING UNITED STATES,
DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF KOREA, CHINA
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:
The Secretary-General welcomes reports on the forthcoming multilateral talks involving the United States, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) and China in Beijing.� He is encouraged by what he hopes is the beginning of the process that would resolve diplomatically the current crisis on the Korean Peninsula.
The Secretary-General and his Personal Envoy, Maurice F. Strong, will continue to lend their full support to this process, while concentrating on humanitarian and longer-term development needs of the DPRK.
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