Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Tuesday that China will participate in the third round of six-party talks with a stance of resolving goals, consolidating achievements, actively mediating and steadily promoting.

Wang, also head of the Chinese delegation for the talks, told ajoint interview by Chinese media that the goals of denuclearization on the Korean Peninsular and resolving the nuclear issue peacefully through dialogue should never fluctuate under any circumstance in a bid to preserve confidence and determination in maintaining peace and stability on the Korean Peninsular.

To consolidate achievements means to carefully safeguard those hard-won consensus reached by all sides and accumulated in past peace talks to stabilize the basis for peace talks, Wang said.

China will, with an objective and fair attitude, actively promote the peace cause and the talks, push all sides to have morecontact and build up mutual trust, to seek and expand common stance while reserving differences, he said.

Given the difficulties and complex factors, sobermindedness andpatience should be maintained, Wang said, noting the peace talks should be pushed forward step-by-step at the correct direction with a steady pace.

The third round of six-party talks, involving the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the United States, the Republic of Korea, Russia, Japan and China will start in the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on Wednesday.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zhang Qiyue said Tuesday afternoon that during the just-concluded second working-level meeting since Monday, the six parties had an exchange of in-depth views on building a nuclear-weapon-free Korean Peninsula and freezing nuclear facilities as well as corresponding measures.

Essential preparations were made at the meeting for the coming third round of six-party talks, acknowledged Zhang, saying that all parties held that the working group's discussions are "useful and constructive."

Six-party talks' achievements scored in 3 aspects

The six-party talks on the nuclear issue of the Korean Peninsula has so far made achievements in three aspects, said Chinese Vice-Foreign Minister Wang Yi.

Firstly, the talks had defined the goal of establishing a nuclear-weapon-free Korean Peninsula, said Wang, head of Chinese delegation for the third round of the six-party talks, scheduled to begin Wednesday.

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) explicitly expressed its intention to abandon the nuclear programs and set forth the freezing of the nuclear program as the first step, whileother parties promised to address the DPRK's rational concern, noted Wang.

Secondly, a mechanism of six-party talks was instituted, through which the issue would be resolved by peaceful dialogues, Wang acknowledged, the working group was launched and substantial issues were put under discussion, which would steadily deepen the process of peaceful talks.

Thirdly, the six-party talks had defined the ways of settling the nuclear issue with all parties agreeing to take "coordinated steps" to address the nuclear issue and related concerns in a manner of "verbal commitment" and "action for action", said Wang.