All the parties involved in the six-party talks on the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue agreed that dialogue was the best approach to iron out the existing differences, the South Korean chief negotiator Song Min-soon said in Beijing Friday.

Song said whether a chairman's statement summarizing the talks, which began in Beijing Wednesday, would be issued is subject to how the talks proceed Friday.

Chief US negotiator Christopher Hill described Thursday's meeting of chief delegates as a "fairly businesslike meeting," saying that this week's talks would recess on Friday.

"A specific or possible date for the resumption of the talks might come out Friday," Song said.

Initiated in 2003, the talks on the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue also involve China, North Korea, Russia and Japan.

(Xinhua News Agency November 11, 2005)