South Korean Foreign Minister Song Min-soon said Wednesday that his government expects a joint document to be adopted during the upcoming six-party talks.

"If we say (such an agreement) is a mountain, we have to reach a ridge where we have never been before. Thus we will be able to know whether we are able to reach that point when we open the talks, though all the countries have the determination to go there, " Song said at a news conference here, stressing that South Korea will take a positive attitude in the talks.

Song said the upcoming talks should produce an agreement on early measures to implement the Joint Statement adopted on Sept. 19, 2005, in which the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) agreed to give up its nuclear programs in exchange for sucurity guarantees, economic assistance and the normalization of deplomatic ties with Washington.

Chinese Foreign Ministry announced Tuesday that the third session of the fifth round of the six-party talks, involving China, the DPRK, the United States, South Korea, Russia and Japan, will be resumed on Feb. 8 in Beijing.

Source: Xinhua