Moscow ready to help facilitate Washington-Pyongyang dialogue - Ryabkov

MOSCOW. Nov 8 (Interfax) - Moscow hopes for a resumption of the dialogue between the United States and North Korea on resolving problems on the Korean Peninsula and is ready to facilitate this process, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said.

"We hope that the dialogue on resolving the nuclear problem of the Korean Peninsula can be resumed. Of course, in this context we hope, above all, for the intensification of interaction between Washington and Pyongyang," Ryabkov said at the Moscow Nonproliferation Conference on Friday.

"We, for our part, have been facilitating and will continue to facilitate this process as much as possible," he said.