| October 2006 |
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Russia has submitted a new draft resolution on the situation in Georgia to the UN Security Council, taking into account German proposals, a Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman said Thursday. 
Moscow hopes the six-nation talks on the North Korean nuclear problem will be resumed as soon as possible, a Russian Foreign Ministry official said Thursday. 
Russia's natural resources minister will head a delegation on October 24-26 to examine the results of environmental inspections into the Sakhalin II oil and gas project in the country's Far East. 
Russians living abroad have formed one of the world's largest foreign diasporas, numbering 30 million people, a Russian Foreign Ministry official said Thursday. 
If Georgia and Iran reach a natural gas export agreement, Azerbaijan is ready to allow Iranian gas to be transited across its territory to Georgia, the country's industry and energy minister said Thursday. 
Russia's natural resources minister said Thursday his agency was still in two minds about whether to revive a controversial Soviet-era plan to divert Siberian rivers to the arid Central Asia. 
China insists that measures being taken against North Korea should aim to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula and ensure stability and security in northeast Asia, a Chinese diplomat said Thursday. 



