The second round of the six-party talks will begin at 9:00 am Wednesday at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing.  

Heads of the delegations are Wang Yi, Chinese vice foreign minister, Kim Kye-gwan, deputy foreign minister of the DPRK, Mitoji Yabunaka, director-general of the Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau of the Japanese Foreign Ministry, Lee Soo-Hyuck, the ROK's deputy minister of foreign affairs and trade, Alexander Losiukov, Russian deputy foreign minister, and James Kelly, assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs of the United States.

The Diaoyutai Hotel was next to the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse, where the first round of talks was held last August.

(Xinhua News Agency February 24, 2004)