MOSCOW. Sept 21 (Interfax-AVN) - Russia is "consistently advocating the Korean Peninsula's nuclear-free status, as well as further six-nation talks" on the North Korean nuclear problem, President Vladimir Putin said following talks with his South Korean counterpart Roh Moo Hyun.
Russia "supports the policy of promoting dialogue and rapprochement between the two Korean states," Putin said.
Moscow "hopes to promote cooperation between Russia and South and North Korea in implementing joint energy and transport projects," he said.
"We are also prepared for a search for other projects in the same format, since we consider such cooperation beneficial from the economic point of view and promising from the political point of view," he said.
Russian-South Korean relations "are reaching a qualitatively new level of multifaceted and trusting partnership, which meets the fundamental interests of the peoples of the two countries and serves the strengthening of security and cooperation in Northeast Asia and the Asia-Pacific region as a whole," Putin said.
Moscow and Seoul share similar positions "on international problems of both a global and regional nature," Putin said.
Roh pointed to "a common vector in the policy of peace and prosperity that the South Korean government is pursuing in Northeast Asia and the Russian leadership's policy of active development of the Far East and East Siberia."
"We can develop mutually advantageous cooperation on this basis," he said.
Both nations have "common positions regarding the nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction and the need to oppose international terrorism," he said.
"We agreed to jointly make all possible efforts to prevent the activity of international terrorists," he said.