MOSCOW, December 1 (RIA Novosti) - South Korea's September proposal to hold an informal meeting as part of the six-party talks on the North Korean nuclear issue has not received any solid support yet, a Moscow source said Thursday.
Seoul repeated the proposal to hold the informal meeting at a South Korean resort during the fifth round of talks in Beijing in early November, the source said, adding that South Korea had hoped to shorten the recess in the talks that could last until January.
"The sides agreed with the idea of an informal meeting but gave no appraisals and have not discussed it yet," the source said, commenting on Japanese Broadcasting Corporation NHK's Thursday report on the proposal.
Russia, the United States, North and South Korea, Japan and China are involved in the six-party talks that began in 2003 with the goal of the nuclear-free status of the Korean Peninsula.
