Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will meet Monday with U.S. special envoy on North Korea Steven Bosworth to discuss the results of Bosworth’s visit in Pyongyang and prospects for resuming the six-party talks on denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
The U.S. diplomat will also have negotiations with Deputy Foreign Minister Alexei Borodavkin, who heads the Russian delegation at the six-party nuclear negotiations.
Upon results of the 3-day visit in North Korea (on December 8-10) Bosworth earlier stated that the United States and North Korea reached “mutual understanding on the need for resuming the six-party talks and for fulfilling the 2005 historic agreements on denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.”
The diplomat emphasized that the question about how and when the delegations will resume the six-party negotiations in Beijing, will be settled through consultations with other negotiating nations, including South Korea, China, Russia and Japan. Bosworth met with North Korean Deputy Foreign Minister Kang Sok-ju and head of the North Korean delegation Kim Kye-gwan.
According to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the U.S.-North Korean negotiations were quite positive. North Korea also stated that the countries managed to bring their positions closer.
