Russia against fueling tensions on Korean nuclear issue
17/12/2006 11:54
The fueling of tensions around the Democratic People's Republic of Korea
(DPRK)'s nuclear program obstructs the achievement of agreements on resolving
this problem, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in a TV interview
yesterday.
"I would be against fueling tensions, because, in the process of
settling the nuclear problem of the Korean Peninsula in the past year and a
half, we have seen situations in which one side or another has obstructed the
implementation of agreements that were reached in September last year," Lavrov
said on Vesti-24 television channel.
In particular, the participants in the
six-party talks on DPRK nuclear program have achieved "quite a substantial
agreement, and it stipulates all necessary steps that need to be taken to
comprehensively settle this problem, but the sanctions the US imposed on DPRK's
accounts in the Delta Asia bank in Macau a year and a half ago have obstructed
this process," Lavrov said.
"If any side takes more such abrupt steps, we
could find ourselves in a deadlock again," he said.
A new round of the
six-nation negotiations between Russia, China, the DPRK, South Korea, the United
States and Japan on the Korean peninsula nuclear problem will be held on Dec. 18
in Beijing.
Xinhua
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