MOSCOW. May 10 (Interfax) - The pattern of dealing with the Iranian nuclear program could be used in approaching the nuclear problem of the Korean Peninsula, even though the mechanisms set out in the Iranian nuclear deal should not be seen as ones setting precedents, a high-ranking Russian diplomat said.
"Certain Iranian experience could actually prove useful and applicable in the context of the nuclear problem of the Korean Peninsula, which is currently the most pressing and potentially explosive challenge to the nonproliferation regime," Mikhail Ulyanov, the director of the Russian Foreign Ministry's Department for Nonproliferation and Arms Control, said at the first session of the 2017 Preparatory Committee for the 2020 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference in Vienna.
The Korean Peninsula problem should be approached "through creative diplomatic and political decisions and painstaking negotiations", he said in a statement available on the Russian Foreign Ministry's website.
"UN Security Council Resolution 2231 adopted in support of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) on the nuclear problem of Iran contains a special operative paragraph stating that the JCPOA provisions should not be viewed as setting precedents".
"We would like to urge everybody to strictly abide by this provision and refrain from any attempts to apply the JCPOA verification mechanisms to any other countries," Ulyanov said.