Hanoi(VNA) – Ministers attending the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) in Bangkok, Thailand in August will welcome recent talks betweenleaders of the United States and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK).

They will call for dialogue among concern countries to realise the denuclearisation on the Korean Peninsula.

The ARF, to beheld in the Thai capital on August 2, gathers 27 foreign ministers, including those of the US, China, DPRK,the Republic of Korea, Russia and Japan, to discuss security issues.

The draftchairman’s statement seen by Japan-based Kyodo News welcomes initiativesand efforts made by the RoK, the USand China to promote dialogue with the DPRK.

"We urgedall concerned parties to resume peaceful dialogue and continue working towardthe realisation of lasting peace and stability in a denuclearised KoreanPeninsula, including through the full and expeditious implementation of thePanmunjeom Declaration, the Pyongyang Joint Declaration and the Joint Statementby the US and DPRK leaders," it said.

At their summit on April 27 lastyear, DPRK leader Kim Jong-un and RoK President Moon Jae In issued thePanmunjeom Declaration calling for denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula andefforts to formally end the 1950-1953 Korean War.

In their summit last September, the two leaders signedthe Pyongyang Joint Declaration, in which Kim pledged to Moon that the DPRK will permanently dismantle its majornuclear complex if the US takes corresponding actions.

The ARF comprises the 10 ASEANstates, China, Japan, the United States, Russia, DPRK, the RoK, India,Pakistan, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the European Union, Papua New Guinea,Bangladesh, East Timor, Mongolia and Sri Lanka.–VNA