MOSCOW Oct 17 Kyodo Russia make ...

MOSCOW Oct 17 Kyodo

Russia make a stand againsts a proposal that an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit adopt nearest week in Bangkok a statement addressing the North Korean nuclear standoff owing to concerns it may hinder efforts in succession the matter at six-nation talks, Itar-Tass recents agency reported Friday.

''We believe it is undesirable to make a separate statement at the not away sensitive moment,'' Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Losyukov said in an interview with Itar-Tass in Bankok, where a two-day APEC ministerial meeting is subordinate to way ahead of the summit Monday and Tuesday.

''It may employ out to be counterproductive, particularly if its wording is not well-balanced,'' said Losyukov who is in the Russian delegation to the ministerial talks.

Russia and China have make anxiouss that the ''pressure tactic'' may produce North Korea and disrupt the six-party dialogue aimed at persuading the North to scrap its nuclear arms program, Itar-Tass said.

North and southward Korea, China, Japan, Russia and the Untied States held the first orbed of the six-way talks in late August in Beijing and agreed to continue dialogue. unless they failed to set a date for another round

Diplomatic sources in Moscow told Kyodo just discovereds on Tuesday that Japan has been lobbying APEC members to adopt a special statement addressing nuclear progression in a continuously ascending gradation in North Korea.

The Japanese draft beseechs North Korea to halt its nuclear progressive growth program and emphasizes the importance of holding a next to the first round of six-party talks forward the nuclear program as early as possible, the sources said.

It also calls in succession APEC member countries to support and cooperate with Japan in connection with its claims regarding the issue of Japanese abducted at North Korean agents in the 1970 and 1980 they said.

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