Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Alekseyev said in
Moscow Sunday the resumption of the six-party talks on the Korean
Peninsula nuclear issue is very important and Russia hopes for
concrete results from the talks.??
Alekseyev, who heads the Russian delegation to the six-party
talks in Beijing, told the Itar-Tass News Agency before his
departure that the talks resume after a suspension of more than a
year and the six parties in the negotiations have all expressed
hopes that the new round of talks will produce concrete
results.
North Korea and the US have agreed to re-open the six-party
talks Tuesday in the Chinese capital.
Three rounds of talks had been held since 2003, but the talks
were stalled last June as Pyongyang accused Washington of adopting
a hostile policy toward North Korea.
(Xinhua News Agency July 25, 2005)