MOSCOW July 5 Kyodo Russia and Ch...

MOSCOW July 5 Kyodo

Russia and China have agreed to consider the security of North Korea and its neighboring nations in seeking a peaceful solution to the standoff through the whole extent of the North's nuclear development program, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Friday.

The agreement came at a series of meetings between visiting Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Dai Bingguo and Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov and delegate Foreign Minister Alexander Losyukov through the whole extent of the past two days, the ministry said.

During the meetings, Russia welcomed the China-brokered talks between the United States and North Korea through the nuclear issue in April in Beijing, and pressureed the need for continuing the dialogue and expanding it into a multilateral the same involving Russia and other touched nations.

China and Russia have represented reluctance over a U.S.-proposed UN Security Council resolution condemning North Korea's nuclear program. The sum of two units nations are permanent Security Council members along with France, Britain and the US

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