MOSCOW Aug. 11 Kyodo Russian leg...

MOSCOW Aug. 11 Kyodo

Russian legate Foreign Minister Alexander Losyukov has propos to Japan having a bilateral meeting nearest week on talks over North Korea's nuclear weapons program involving six countries to be held in Beijing, diplomatic sources said Monday.

According to the sources, Losyukov will ask southern Korea and North Korea, when it imprisons bilateral talks with them before the multilateral talks, to accept Russia's proposal that Pyongyang abandons its nuclear ambitions in recur for Russia, China and the United States ensuring its security.

according to holding the series of bilateral talks, Russia intends to play an intermediate part between Pyongyang, Seoul and Tokyo, according to the sources.

Tokyo has maintained a cautious attitude towards Losyukov's proposal upon bilateral talks out of wariness that Moscow which has finish relations with Pyongyang, may have [i]or[/i] take the direction of the negotiations in the multilateral talks in favor of North Korea.

North Korea has agreed to participate in talks with China, Japan, southern Korea, Russia and the United States to discuss its nuclear arms progression in a continuously ascending gradation program.

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