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| Putin Urges N.Korea to Comply with UN Resolutions |
| 2010-12-17 |
| [Chosun Ilbo] Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Tuesday urged North Korea to "unconditionally comply with UN Security Council resolutions" on its nuclear development. The previous day, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov denounced the North for its shelling of the South Korean island of Yeonpyeong in November. According to Russia's official international news agency RIA Novosti, Putin and his Mongolian counterpart Sükhbaataryn Batbold issued a joint statement after their talks held in Moscow on Tuesday afternoon. It stressed the need to resume the six-party nuclear talks to discuss the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula and urged North Korea "to unconditionally comply" with UNSC resolutions 1718 and 1874. |
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