QINGDAO, China. June 9 (Interfax) - The issue of a peace treaty between South and North Korea will be discussed at the U.S.-North Korean summit, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.
"[They] will discuss a peace treaty, among other things. So everything is going according to the logic of the Russian-Chinese roadmap," Lavrov told reporters on Saturday.
He said that this roadmap envisages an end to militant rhetoric by all parties at the first stage and, at the second stage, the beginning of a normal dialogue between the main players, leading to the signing of a peace treaty. The third stage involves a multilateral dialogue, "because this region's issues are wider than the Korean Peninsula alone, they cover the whole of Northeast Asia," he said.
"The first stage is forgoing rhetoric. They [the U.S. and the Koreas] are going through [this stage], more or less. There are relapses sometimes, true, but that doesn't get in the way of preparing for summits," he said.