The U.S. State Department has announced that the U.S. and North Korea will hold their second round of high-level talks in Geneva next week.

Department Spokesman Mark Toner told reporters on Wednesday a U.S. delegation led by U.S. Special Representative for North Korea Policy Stephen Bosworth will meet a North Korean delegation led by First Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye-kwan in Geneva on Monday and Tuesday.

Toner described the upcoming talks as “a continuation of the exploratory meetings to determine if North Korea is prepared to fulfill its commitments under the 2005 joint statement of the Six-Party Talks and its nuclear – international obligations as well as take concrete steps toward denuclearization.”

Toner added that Bosworth will step down from his position as special representative for North Korea policy following the high-level talks in Geneva and current U.S. ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, Glyn Davies, will succeed Bosworth. Davies will be accompanying Bosworth to next week’s talks.

On Davies succeeding Bosworth, Toner said that is it is “important to stress this is a change in personnel, not a change in policy.”