Beijing, Jul 28 (Prensa Latina) The fourth round of the six-party talks on the Korean nuclear issue has generated more hope than real progress after two days of sessions, though China, main facilitator of the negotiations, believes they are on the right track.


The Chinese Deputy Foreign Minister Dai Bingguo insisted Thursday the talks are moving on the right direction after meeting with the heads of the six delegations. The atmosphere of the talks is good, he stressed.



The chiefs of the negotiating teams from China, Japan, Russia, United States, the People´s Democratic Republic of Korea (DPRK) and South Korea agreed to postpone for Friday a close door plenary session to give the two main protagonists, the US and the DPRK, a chance to work out on their differences.



The American and North Korean delegations held Thursday a three-hour meeting to discuss face to face their disagreements in an effort to find a solution to the nuclear crisis in the Korean Peninsula.



For analysts, the outcome of this meeting was key to the success of the round of talks underway in Beijing, but little was known about its results.



According to Dai, "all the delegates come to the talks with a good political will, that is, to make progress in solving the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue."



"They have made frank, in-depth and pragmatic discussions on how to realize a nuclear-weapon-free peninsula and setting an overall goal of the six-party talks through various forms," Dai said.



He pointed out the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue is very complex and it is very natural that related parties have differences.



China´s deputy foreign minister stressed that all the people hope the issue can be peacefully solved through talks and hope the peninsula can have a peaceful development.



His remarks come up after two days of talks with no evident progress in narrowing the differences.



"There are still substantial and even conceptual differences between the DPRK and the United States," said Russian delegation head Alexander Alexeyev, also deputy foreign minister of Russia.



"One of the issues," he added, "is what to do with enriched Uranium." There was no agreement on this specific issue, but the parties agree to keep talking to resolve it, he said.