ST. PETERSBURG. Sept 19 (Interfax) - The inter-Korean summit has proven that both Seoul and Pyongyang want peace; a major step has been taken towards building an atmosphere of confidence between the two nations, Federation Council Chairperson Valentina Matviyenko said.
"The atmosphere was amicable and non-confrontational. It looks like both leaders are on the same page, they want to establish peace, ensure denuclearization with peaceful, political and diplomatic methods, and meet each other halfway," Matviyenko told the press on the sidelines of the Eurasian Women's Forum in St. Petersburg.
"I think this summit has taken a major step towards building an atmosphere of confidence between two states and two peoples. It has laid a foundation for further rapprochement and combination of efforts taken by the two countries," she said.
The meeting between the leaders of two Koreas was very fruitful, Matviyenko said.
"A military committee has been established to deal with possible tensions, and the readiness to connect and modernize roads and railways has been declared," she said.
This is also important to Russia, which has repeatedly offered trilateral projects to North and South Koreas in order to connect their railways to the Trans-Siberian railway and transport cargo from Europe via North Korea, Matviyenko said.
"The agreements reached between the two Koreas make these trilateral projects more realistic," she said.
The summit clearly demonstrated the intention to make the Korean Peninsula a nuclear-free territory of peace, and agreements on making phased progress towards that objective were signed, Matviyenko said.