BEIJING, September 21 (RIA Novosti) - The sixth round of six-party talks on North Korea's denuclearization will resume in Beijing September 27, a spokeswoman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry said in a statement Friday.
The talks, involving China, Japan, Russia, the United States and the two Koreas, were postponed earlier this week on the request of Pyongyang for undisclosed reasons.
"As a result of an agreement among all parties, the second stage of the sixth round of the six-party talks will be held in Beijing September 27-30," Jiang Yu said.
The upcoming talks are expected to finalize a timeline for the second stage of the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula, which envisions North Korea shutting down all its nuclear facilities.
Under a February 2007 agreement, in exchange for North Korea's denuclearization and information on all its nuclear programs, the reclusive state will receive 950,000 metric tons of fuel oil for its thermal power-generating plants in addition to 50,000 already delivered by South Korea for the closure of its only operational nuclear reactor at Yongbyon.
China, a traditional host of the six-party talks, said Tuesday it had begun deliveries of 50,000 tons of fuel oil to North Korea and the first shipment was delivered on September 16.
