BEIJING — Negotiators produced a draft accord early today aimed at ending North Korea’s nuclear-bomb program, the chief American negotiator, Christopher Hill, said in Beijing.

Envoys from America, North Korea, China, South Korea, Japan, and Russia will meet today at 10 a.m. Beijing time to try to agree on the final document, Mr. Hill said. The North Koreans may have some points to make before the accord is approved, he said.

“I’m encouraged that we might be able to make a real step forward on the denuclearization issue on the Korean peninsula,” Mr. Hill said. “I’m encouraged by the fact that these delegations worked so well together.”

The envoys spent five days hammering out an agreement on a schedule for implementing a September 2005 declaration that promises energy assistance and security guarantees for North Korea if Kim Jong Il’s government abandons its nuclear ambitions. Bargaining focused on how much oil North Korea would receive in exchange for taking steps toward shutting down the program.

China announced progress in the talks less than an hour before Mr. Hill spoke, signaling that the six nations had broken an impasse with North Korea.

The finishing touches will be put on the document today, Interfax cited Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Losyukov as saying late yesterday in Beijing. “Its serious details will be clarified,” he said.

Implementation of the agreement would begin “a month from now,” Mr. Hill told reporters. “We feel it’s an excellent draft.”

“All sides have tried their best to achieve progress,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said earlier at the Diaoyutai State Guest House. Six-nation talks in December failed to make progress after the North Koreans refused to engage in discussions, saying American sanctions must first be lifted.

North Korea is demanding 2 million tons of oil annually in exchange for signing the draft, Japan’s Asahi newspaper reported, citing unidentified officials close to the talks. That’s four times the 500,000-ton limit proposed by South Korea, the newspaper said.

The proposed agreement calls for the six countries to form working groups “for full and rapid implementation” of the 2005 declaration, the New York Times reported yesterday, citing a summary of the draft it received from an unidentified official in Washington.

The proposal sets a deadline of 60 days for North Korea to shut down its Yongbyon nuclear reactor and allow inspectors into the country, the Times said.

American officials must ensure fissionable materials are removed from North Korea after a deal is reached on dismantling the nuclear program, a former senior director for Asia at the U.S. National Security Council, Kenneth Lieberthal, said.

The talks gained new gravity because of North Korea’s detonation in October of its first nuclear device, prompting the U.N. Security Council to ban sales of military equipment and luxury goods to the country.

News of the accord today won praise from Governor Richardson of New Mexico, who is a Democratic presidential candidate. Mr. Richardson, a former American energy secretary and ambassador to the United Nations who has held discussions with North Korean officials, said the agreement “takes the right path.”

“Although the devil is in the details, this is a first important step that might lead to the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula,” Mr. Richardson said in a statement sent by e-mail.