Chinese President Hu Jintao reiterated his country’s commitment to helping implement an agreement signed this week during international nuclear talks aimed at persuading North Korea to disarm.
Hu said in a telephone conversation late Thursday with President Bush that China was “willing to maintain close communication and cooperation with the United States and other parties concerned … to play a constructive role” in the process, the official Xinhua News Agency said…
The disarmament pact reached Tuesday among the two Koreas, China, Japan, Russia and the United States is worth about $250 million in aid to the North. It requires Pyongyang to seal its main nuclear reactor, allow international inspections and begin accounting for other nuclear programs within 60 days. [Full Text]
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