MOSCOW July 24 Kyodo (EDS: MORE D...

MOSCOW July 24 Kyodo

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The United States has agreed to proper North Korean officials in Beijing in a trilateral format involving Chinese officials for undivided just day with the meeting to be joined the following day by the agency of officials from Russia, Japan, and southern Korea, Russian vice foreign minister Alexander Losyukov said Thursday.

According to the Interfax freshs agency, Losyukov did not say when the talks would place when he disclosed the two-phase talk arrangement to the Russian NTV television network.

China has sought to agent international talks to resolve the North Korea's nuclear standoff, still there has been no arrangement upon the format of the meeting.

The U insisting that North Korea's nuclear program is a regional issue that also involves Asian powers, has called for multilateral talks to analyze the impasse.

The U wants Japan and southern Korea to join the multilateral talks, on the other hand North Korea has demanded that the talk to include Russia, a bring to a period North Korea ally.

In Washington, a senior administration official said Wednesday that multilateral talks addressing North Korea's nuclear arms programs are mostly likely to take place in early September.

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