U.S. and Macau (2006)

U.S. Department of State

Daily Press Briefing

Sean McCormack, Spokesman
Washington, DC
March 7, 2006

12:40 p.m. EST

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QUESTION: Do you have any details on the meeting in New York today between the North Koreans and the U.S. Delegation on counterfeiting?

MR. MCCORMACK: I checked before I came out and -- as of when I came out, I don't think that it had ended yet. I don't have any readout of it for you. I'm not sure that there's much of a readout to give. It was more of a briefing. I think Tom talked about this a little bit yesterday in terms of what the information was that our team was going to be providing to the North Koreans that simply it had to do with the actions the United States took concerning money laundering activities by Banco Delta Asia and how we took those actions under Section 311 of the Patriot Act and that was really the object of the meeting. I think the -- our team is being led by Kathy Stephens who's the PDAS, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary here in the East Asia Pacific Bureau. And I would only make clear, once again, that it is our view that the steps that the United States took with respect to the Banco Delta Asia had nothing to do and is completely separate from the six-party talks.

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(The briefing was concluded at 1:30 p.m.)