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发帖数: 1063 | 1 Russia Backs China’s Call for Six-Party Talks on North Korea
By Bill Varner - Nov 30, 2010 5:05 PM ET
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Business ExchangeBuzz up!DiggPrint Email .Russia supports China’s proposal
to hold six-nation talks on military tensions stemming from North Korea’s
Nov. 23 artillery attack on a South Korean island, Russia’s ambassador to
the United Nations said.
“We think that if everybody could come to those talks, they could be useful
,” Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said in an interview today. “We sort of view
this initiative as a positive one.”
China proposed on Nov. 28 that “emergency” talks to address the increasing
tensions on the Korean peninsula be held early next month in Beijing. They
would involve China, Japan, Russia, South Korea, North Korea and the U.S., a
group that met several times, starting in 2003, to discuss North Korea’s
nuclear program until the government in Pyongyang pulled out of the talks in
April 2009.
The U.S., Japan and South Korea haven’t agreed to China’s proposal, saying
they want to see more concrete action by North Korea to dismantle its
nuclear program before restarting the talks.
Japan’s bid to bring the issue to the UN Security Council has run into
resistance from China.
“We are trying our best,” Ambassador Tsuneo Nishida of Japan told
reporters at the UN. “We have been really trying to form a consensus in the
Security Council. You have noticed that the Security Council has not yet
been in a position to do that.”
The U.S. and Japan, which has a seat on the Security Council until Dec. 31,
have been holding bilateral talks with China, Russia and other panel members
. The U.S. and Japan haven’t formally proposed action by the Security
Council.
Russian Suggestion
Churkin suggested that Russia also would be open to Security Council
involvement in the issue.
“It could be discussed in the Security Council,” Churkin said. “No one
has brought it up.”
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov expressed similar willingness to back
a Security Council position on the artillery attack during a Nov. 25 news
conference in Moscow.
“I hope that soon the Security Council will express its opinion, which will
help calm the situation,” Lavrov said, according to a transcript provided
by the Foreign Ministry.
China, while not openly rejecting the call for Security Council involvement,
is pushing hard for the six-party format.
Yang Tao, political director of China’s mission to the UN, called the six-
party talks “one of the most useful platforms” and said it had “some
success” dealing with the issue of North Korea’s nuclear program.
“It is very important for this platform to play its dual role,” Yang said
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