US, Japan, ROK pledge to coordinate position on Korean peninsula nuclear issue
19/11/2006 11:15
Leaders from the United States, Japan and the Republic of Korea (ROK)
pledged in Hanoi yesterday to coordinate their position on the nuclear issue on
the Korean peninsula.
"The meeting has come at a crucial time and is of great
significance, " said Mitsuo Sakaba, press secretary of the Japanese Foreign
Ministry, noting that this was also the first trilateral summit of its kind
since 2002.
He told journalists US President George W. Bush, Japanese Prime
Minister Shinzo Abe and ROK President Roh Moo-hyun shared the view during the
meeting that the combination of dialogues and pressure is important in solving
the nuclear issue and that the future six-party talks must produce concrete
results.
"While Japan agrees to the combination efforts, we think that a
strong position on the issue is very important at this time," he said.
Asked
why China and Russia were not invited to the meeting, Sakaba said that the
trilateral meeting was decided by foreign ministers of the three countries
several months ago, and that the three parties would approach China and Russia
later.
The three leaders also shared the view that coordination of positions
in the future six-party talks is crucially important, he said.
Xinhua
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