Beijing opposes any preconditions for the resumption of six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear program, China's s special representative for Korean Peninsula affairs Wu Dawei said on Friday.
China has repeatedly voiced its support for the resumption of the six-party talks which stalled more than two years ago.
"We do not want to see any party set preconditions for restarting the talks," Xinhua quoted the Chinese diplomat as saying.
"The resumption of the six-party talks is facing many difficulties. We hope those difficulties can be overcome at an early date," he added.
The six-party talks on Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions involving the two Koreas, China, the United States, Russia and Japan came to a halt in April 2009 when North Korea walked out of negotiations to protest the United Nations' condemnation of its missile test.
The country is banned from conducting nuclear or ballistic missile tests under UN Resolution 1718, adopted after North Korea's first nuclear test on October 9, 2006.
However, Pyongyang carried out a second nuclear test on May 25, 2009, followed by a series of short-range missile launches, and has threatened to build up its nuclear arsenal to counter what it calls hostile U.S. policies.
BEIJING, March 4 (RIA Novosti)
