China will play the role of coordinating with the other parties in a bid to make fruitful the working-level talks on Korean nuclear issue, which are due to open on Wednesday, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said in Beijing Tuesday.

"As host and participant of the working group meeting of the six-party talks, China will attend the meeting actively," Liu Jianchao told a regular press conference.

The meeting will be participated in by the six parties, namely, China, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), the United States, the Republic of Korea (ROK), Russia and Japan.

The closed-door meeting is the continuation as well as an important part of the six-party talks and the duration of the meeting depends on the process of the meeting, Liu said.

During the second round of the six-party talks from Feb. 25 to 28 in Beijing, all concerned parties agreed to forming a working group to prepare for the third round of the talks, which are expected to be held before the end of June.

Liu said diplomats of concerned parties have arrived in Beijing within the past two days, namely Ri Gun, deputy director of American affairs for the DPRK's Foreign Ministry; Cho Tae-yong, head of the ROK Foreign Ministry's task force on the Korean nuclear issue; Saiki Akitaika, deputy director-general of the Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau of the Japanese Foreign Ministry; and Joseph R. DeTrani, a US State Department special envoy for Korean affairs.

Ning Fukui, Chinese ambassador on Korean Peninsula affairs, will act as the representative of the Chinese side to attend and chair the meeting, the spokesman said.

The parties concerned agree to address questions which were involved in the second round of talks, said Liu, adding that China hopes for increased understanding and consensus through the working-level talks.

There are still different opinions, which will take time to solve, on how to realize a nuclear-weapons-free peninsula, Liu said. The related parties are supposed to put forward practical solutions after deeply exchanging views.

The spokesman said after the other five delegations have arrived, the Chinese delegation will hold bilateral consultations with them to facilitate the upcoming meeting.

Source: Xinhua