Australia envoy in N Korea talks
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Australia's foreign minister is in North Korea, urging the Stalinist state to renounce nuclear weapons.
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Aug. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said he used his visit to North Korea to call on the communist country to attend the next round of six-nation talks on dismantling its nuclear program.
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US envoy Christopher Hill is reportedly travelling to North Korea to discuss its nuclear programme.
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FOREIGN Minister Alexander Downer will today begin talks with North Korean officials to try to convince the communist state to drop its nuclear weapons program.
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Chief US nuclear envoy Christopher Hill called Friday for movement from North Korea on the long-running international row over its nuclear weapons programme after talks with his Russian counterpart.
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Washington's top U.S. nuclear envoy expressed hope on Tuesday that six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear arms program would resume in early July.
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Joseph DeTrani, a US envoy, is visiting China, South Korea and Japan to try to make progress on resuming six-nation talks on ending North Korea&#39;s nuclear program, the US State Department said.
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Australia&#39;s foreign minister, Alexander Downer, has wrapped up talks in North Korea on the stand-off over the country&#39;s efforts to develop nuclear weapons.
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The prospects of a thaw between North Korea and its foes brightened on Wednesday as it held talks with Japan in Hanoi, one day after a meeting in New York that a U.S. envoy described as "very good".
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North Korea on Thursday invited the chief U.S. nuclear envoy to visit the communist nation if Washington proves its commitment to an agreement last year in which the North pledged to abandon its nuclear weapons program.
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Australia had become a mediator in a nuclear stand-off between Iran and the United States, Prime Minister John Howard said on Sunday, in a move that mirrors Australia's role in the North Korea nuclear crisis.
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Australia's foreign minister said en route to North Korea on Tuesday that he would dangle the prospect of more economic aid for the impoverished country if it agrees to stop building nuclear weapons.
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TONY EASTLEY: Australia&#39;s Foreign Minister Alexander Downer has begun a diplomatic mission to North Korea, aimed at helping to resolve the standoff over the regime&#39;s nuclear weapons program.
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Australian foreign minister Alexander Downer (top), listens to Mohamed ElBaradei (below), chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), at a press conference in Sydney, November 8. AFP.
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WASHINGTON - US President George W. Bush spoke with Australian Prime Minister John Howard about the North Korea nuclear deal and the military campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, the White House said.
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North Korea's chief nuclear envoy left for Beijing on Tuesday to meet a U.S. diplomat visiting the Chinese capital and will discuss a delay in a nuclear disarmament deal, Yonhap news agency reported.
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Diplomatic efforts are underway to persuade North Korea to continue participating in the dialogue on its nuclear-weapons programs, after Pyongyang indicated its reluctance to attend further negotiations. Both China and Australia&#39;s foreign minister are ...