2006 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 29 May 2006 22:56:06 -0000
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] South Korea, U.S. cleanup dispute
 
S. Korea, US Fail to Agree on Cleanup
	

By Jung Sung-ki
Korea Times
May 29, 2006

Seoul and Washington have failed to narrow differences over the environmental cleanup involved in returning U.S. bases to Korea, the Defense Ministry said Monday.

During the eighth Security Policy Initiative (SPI) talks in Hawaii on May 25, the two sides failed to reach an agreement because of differences over remediation costs and contamination levels, ministry officials said.

The two sides will continue discussions on the matter in the next SPI meeting slated for mid-July, they said.

The U.S. base turnover process is a part of the 2004 agreement to relocate U.S. bases scattered across the country to the central region of South Korea.

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For the entire article, see
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/200605/kt2006052917375853460.htm

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