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China proposes six-party crisis meeting over Korean Peninsula
Nov 28, 2010, 9:18 GMT
Beijing - China on Sunday proposed an emergency meeting of the heads of the six-party talks in early December, in response to heightened tensions on the Korean Peninsula.
Chief negotiators from North and South Korea, the United States, China, Japan and Russia should meet early December in Beijing, special envoy for the Korean Peninsula Wu Dawei told journalists on Sunday.
China made it clear that the talks would not be a resumption of the six-party dialogue, focussed on the dismantling of North Korea's nuclear program, which stalled in April 2009.
The call comes amid tensions after last week's artillery exchange between North and South Korea in which four South Koreans were killed on the island of Yeonpyeong.
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