Japanese chief negotiator Kenichiro Sasae said today that the draft common document was still under intense debate.  

Sasae told reporters this morning that the six parties to the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue would continue discussing the draft common document and all the participants would work together to achieve a good result.

The Japanese side would put national interests into the common document, he said, adding no bilateral consultation had been held so far between Japan and North Korea during the ongoing six-party talks.

This round of talks that groups China, the US, Russia, Japan, South and North Korea entered its eighth day today, and it is still hard to say when it will close.

Sources said chief negotiators of the six parties would meet today, following the China-North Korea and China-US consultations.

(Xinhua News Agency August 2, 2005)