Russia’s Lavrov says six-party talks with N.Korea ‘mandatory’ | Top Russian news and analysis online | ‘RIA Novosti’ newswire: “Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday that circumstances for the resumption of talks with North Korea on its controversial nuclear program have improved.
‘The resumption of six-party talks [with North Korea] is mandatory, and now circumstances for holding them are a bit better than earlier,’ Lavrov said at a news conference after a meeting with his Japanese counterpart Katsuya Okada in Moscow.”