The fourth round of six-party talks should resume next week and, as for the specific date, the Chinese side still needs to coordinate with the relevant parties, Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said Tuesday in Beijing.

Qin told a regular news conference that all concerned parties would continue consultation and discussion on the related issues during the upcoming second phase of the fourth round of six-party talks.

The fourth round of the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue talks, starting from July 26 and recessing from Aug. 7, failed to resume as scheduled in the week of Aug. 29. But the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) said it agreed to rejoin the talks in the week beginning Sept. 12.

Qin said the parties concerned have conducted intense and frequent consultations and dialogues during the recess of talks, which proved that the six-party talks was all along going on.

"Now all the relevant parties are working to specify the starting date of the second phase of talks," Qin said, hoping that during the talks, all parties would proceed the overall situation of realizing denuclearization and safeguarding peace and stability of the Korean Peninsula, show flexibility and narrow their differences,in a bid to attain positive progress in the six-party talks.

Source: Xinhua