Medvedev'sl visit to Seoul to be landmark in ties with South Korea

SEOUL, October 13 (Itar-Tass) - The consultations held at the South
Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade "highlighted preparations to
a Seoul visit of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev," Russian Deputy
Foreign Minister Alexei Borodavkin told Itar-Tass before the departure for
Moscow. He noted that these meetings "showed very close approaches to the
discussed issues."
"I believe that it will be right to say that this visit will be
landmark in our relations with South Korea. The following issues may be
high on the agenda of the visit. This is primarily the development of
bilateral relations with the focus on tapping the potential of Russia and
South Korea in the modernization of our economies," he noted.
"On October 12, the consultations were held at the South Korean
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade with the focus on the meeting with
Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan. This was his first meeting at a new post
with the foreign diplomat. We know each other, we worked together in
Vienna, so we met as old friends and were speaking cordially and
sincerely," the Russian diplomat said.
Alongside, the consultations were held with South Korean Deputy
Foreign Minister Wi Sung-lac, who is in charge of the issues to make the
Korean Peninsula nuclear free, as well as with Deputy Foreign Minister Kim
Jae-chin, who is charge of bilateral relations and cooperation in the
Asia-Pacific region.