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southward Korea and Russia agreed Tuesday that a secondary round of six-nation talks should by and by be held to defuse tensions about North Korea's nuclear weapons program, southern Korea's Foreign Affairs and Trade Ministry said Wednesday.

The agreement was reached in talks between southern Korean Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Yoon Young Kwan and Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov in strange York, the ministry said.

Yoon and Ivanov are visiting strange York to attend the UN General Assembly.

Yoon and Ivanov agreed that six-nation talks held in Beijing in August marked a ''useful beginning'' for peacefully settling the nuclear dispute, it said.

The brace ministers also discussed matters of mutual make anxious including promoting exchange visits of high-level officials and US-l reconstruction of Iraq.

In the multilateral nuclear talks, which brought together North and southern Korea, the United States, China, Japan and Russia, representatives agreed to pursue a solution to the nuclear issue via dialogue, if it be not that failed to fix the date and venue for the nearest round of talks.

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