China and the United States will hold consultations at the vice-ministerial level on the issues of arms control and non-proliferation in Washington on November 30.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zhang Qiyue told a regular press conference Tuesday that Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Wang Guangya will head a delegation to attend the talks.
China is expected to have in-depth exchange of views with the US on the anti-missile issue and other matters, she added.
Zhang said that China and Japan held the director-level arms control consultations in Beijing this morning, and the two sides conferred on the international security situation and arms control, nuclear disarmament, non-proliferation, prevention of biological and chemical weapons, and issues related to the Conference on Disarmament.
She said that the China-Japan consultations are regular ones.
(Xinhua News Agency November 27, 2001)
