Vice Foreign Minister Dai Bingguo will hold a banquet Thursday noon at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in honor of heads of the delegations to the ongoing six-party talks, according to the press center of the talks.  

A welcome banquet was held Monday evening by Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing in honor of all the negotiators in the six-party talks.

The current round of talks opened yesterday morning. After the opening session, heads of the six delegations conferred and then a series of bilateral consultations were held.

A plenary session of the talks opened at 9:00 this morning. And one-on-one contacts will be held in the afternoon.     

Date of conclusion for the six-nation talks is yet to be determined.

Negotiators in the six-party talks came from China, the US, Russia, Japan, South and North Korea.

(Xinhua News Agency July 27, 2005)