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RF holds consultations with 6-nation partners over Korea - FM
MOSCOW, December 9 (Itar-Tass) - Russia is holding consultations with
its six-nation nuclear partners due to the tense situation on the Korean
Peninsula, the Foreign Ministry reported.
"An active dialogue with the key partners is aimed at preventing
further escalation of tension and searching for ways to improve the
situation in the region," the ministry stressed.
"Today Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexei Borodavkin will have
consultations with Akitaka Saiki, director-general of the Asian and
Oceanian Affairs Bureau of the Japanese Foreign Ministry. Next week DPRK
Foreign Minister Pak Ui-chun and Deputy Foreign Minister of the Republic
of Korea, Vee Son Nak, will visit Russia," the ministry said.
Russian ambassador at large Grigory Logvinov will hold consultations
with American partners in Washington. Earlier, he visited Beijing and
Seoul.
Russia and Japan plan using their bilateral potential to settle the
situation on the Korean Peninsula, officials at the Russian Foreign
Ministry said.
"The sides exchanged opinions on how the potential of Russian-Japanese
cooperation in the political sphere might be utilized for preventing a
further rise of the military and political confrontation on the Korean
Peninsula and for scaling down the tensions in the sub-region," a ministry
spokesman said.
It is still early to speak about resumption of the six-party
negotiations on North Korea's nuclear program, South Korean ambassador to
Russia Lee Yun-ho said.
"At present, it is early to hold the six-party negotiations," he said.
"At first, it is necessary to create the relevant conditions; North Korea
should show its will to denuclearisation." "We do not refuse from the
dialogue, we think that the dialogue is necessary," the ambassador said.
"But we will not conduct the dialogue for the dialogue's sake."
The Russian Foreign Ministry voiced concern over increased military
activities in the area of the Korean Peninsula and a lack of dialogue
between interested parties.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexei Borodavkin met with the
Republic of Korea's Ambassador in Moscow Lee Yun-ho on Monday, November
29, to discuss the situation in the region.
"In the course of the discussion, an exchange of views took place on
the situation on the Korean Peninsula in connection with the deterioration
of inter-Korean relations," the Foreign Ministry said. "The Russian side
confirmed that North Korea's artillery attack on South Korean territory,
which entailed casualties, deserves to be condemned."
The sides "stressed the inadmissibility of using force in relations
between the DPRK and the Republic of Korea and the need for an urgent
lessening of tensions between them."
"Increased military activity in the region in the absence of dialogue
between the interested parties raises very strong concerns," the ministry
said.
North Korea fired scores of artillery shells at a South Korean island
on Tuesday, killing two soldiers, in one of the heaviest attacks on its
neighbour since the Korean War ended in 1953.
The barrage -- the South fired back and sent a fighter jet to the area
-- was close to a disputed maritime border on the west of the divided
peninsula and the scene of deadly clashes in the past. South Korea was
conducting military drills in the area at the time but said it had not
been firing at the North.
The attack came as the reclusive North, and its ally China, presses
regional powers to return to negotiations on its nuclear weapons program
and revelations at the weekend Pyongyang is fast developing another source
of material to make atomic bombs.
It also follows moves by leader Kim Jong-il to make his youngest, but
unproven, son his heir apparent, leading some analysts to question whether
the bombardment might in part have been an attempt to burnish the ruling
family's image with the military.
"Houses and mountains are on fire and people are evacuating. You can't
see very well because of plumes of smoke," a witness on the island told
YTN Television before the shelling, which lasted about an hour, ended.
YTN said at least 200 North Korean shells hit Yeonpyeong, which lies
off the west coast of the divided peninsula near a disputed maritime
border. Most landed on a military base there.
-0-yur
its six-nation nuclear partners due to the tense situation on the Korean
Peninsula, the Foreign Ministry reported.
"An active dialogue with the key partners is aimed at preventing
further escalation of tension and searching for ways to improve the
situation in the region," the ministry stressed.
"Today Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexei Borodavkin will have
consultations with Akitaka Saiki, director-general of the Asian and
Oceanian Affairs Bureau of the Japanese Foreign Ministry. Next week DPRK
Foreign Minister Pak Ui-chun and Deputy Foreign Minister of the Republic
of Korea, Vee Son Nak, will visit Russia," the ministry said.
Russian ambassador at large Grigory Logvinov will hold consultations
with American partners in Washington. Earlier, he visited Beijing and
Seoul.
Russia and Japan plan using their bilateral potential to settle the
situation on the Korean Peninsula, officials at the Russian Foreign
Ministry said.
"The sides exchanged opinions on how the potential of Russian-Japanese
cooperation in the political sphere might be utilized for preventing a
further rise of the military and political confrontation on the Korean
Peninsula and for scaling down the tensions in the sub-region," a ministry
spokesman said.
It is still early to speak about resumption of the six-party
negotiations on North Korea's nuclear program, South Korean ambassador to
Russia Lee Yun-ho said.
"At present, it is early to hold the six-party negotiations," he said.
"At first, it is necessary to create the relevant conditions; North Korea
should show its will to denuclearisation." "We do not refuse from the
dialogue, we think that the dialogue is necessary," the ambassador said.
"But we will not conduct the dialogue for the dialogue's sake."
The Russian Foreign Ministry voiced concern over increased military
activities in the area of the Korean Peninsula and a lack of dialogue
between interested parties.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexei Borodavkin met with the
Republic of Korea's Ambassador in Moscow Lee Yun-ho on Monday, November
29, to discuss the situation in the region.
"In the course of the discussion, an exchange of views took place on
the situation on the Korean Peninsula in connection with the deterioration
of inter-Korean relations," the Foreign Ministry said. "The Russian side
confirmed that North Korea's artillery attack on South Korean territory,
which entailed casualties, deserves to be condemned."
The sides "stressed the inadmissibility of using force in relations
between the DPRK and the Republic of Korea and the need for an urgent
lessening of tensions between them."
"Increased military activity in the region in the absence of dialogue
between the interested parties raises very strong concerns," the ministry
said.
North Korea fired scores of artillery shells at a South Korean island
on Tuesday, killing two soldiers, in one of the heaviest attacks on its
neighbour since the Korean War ended in 1953.
The barrage -- the South fired back and sent a fighter jet to the area
-- was close to a disputed maritime border on the west of the divided
peninsula and the scene of deadly clashes in the past. South Korea was
conducting military drills in the area at the time but said it had not
been firing at the North.
The attack came as the reclusive North, and its ally China, presses
regional powers to return to negotiations on its nuclear weapons program
and revelations at the weekend Pyongyang is fast developing another source
of material to make atomic bombs.
It also follows moves by leader Kim Jong-il to make his youngest, but
unproven, son his heir apparent, leading some analysts to question whether
the bombardment might in part have been an attempt to burnish the ruling
family's image with the military.
"Houses and mountains are on fire and people are evacuating. You can't
see very well because of plumes of smoke," a witness on the island told
YTN Television before the shelling, which lasted about an hour, ended.
YTN said at least 200 North Korean shells hit Yeonpyeong, which lies
off the west coast of the divided peninsula near a disputed maritime
border. Most landed on a military base there.
-0-yur
