MOSCOW. Aug 8 (Interfax) - To prevent a return to confrontation on the Korean peninsula, all sides to the conflict should demonstrate maximum restraint, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said.
"We believe that all countries involved must now demonstrate maximum responsibility, foresight and refrain from any moves that could provoke a new round of confrontation," he said after Monday talks with his South Korean colleague Kim Sung-hwan.
"Efforts must be bent to direct the situation to a constructive channel," he said.
"Moscow is trying to promote this with actual deeds. Today we discussed the steps taken to make trilateral projects involving Russia, North and South Korea in energy and transport a reality," he said.
Russia, "as the chairman of the corresponding working group of the six-nation process, is actively promoting the idea of a establishing a regional security system in Northeast Asia that would be based on the principle of equal and indivisible security of all its participants," Lavrov added.
"Both sides favor a peaceful, political and diplomatic settlement of the nuclear problem of the Korean peninsula along the lines of resuming six-nation talks. Both Russia and the Republic of Korea are now actively working to create the necessary prerequisites for that," he said.