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SINGAPORE welcomes the meeting between the United States and North Korea on the stalled effort to persuade Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear ambitions.
US nuclear negotiator Christopher Hill will hold talks in Singapore next week with his North Korean counterpart Kim Kye Gwan, the State Department said on Friday.
The meeting could be on Monday or Tuesday, said department spokesman Tom Casey.
In a press statement on Saturday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said: 'Singapore welcomes the bilateral meeting between the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and the United States on 8 April 2008.
'Singapore hopes that both sides will have a good discussion that will move the Six-Party Talks forward, leading to the denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula.'
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