Washington's point man on the North Korean nuclear issue will visit Moscow next week for talks with Russian diplomats, including Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Friday.
U.S. special envoy to North Korea Stephen Bosworth has finished three days of talks in Pyongyang that the secretive communist state said deepened mutual understanding and narrowed differences between the two sides.
"The two sides were able to deepen mutual understanding, narrow differences in views and find considerable common ground. A series of mutual understandings were also reached on the need to resume [six party talks]," a North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman said, as quoted by state media.
On Monday, the U.S. diplomat will brief Lavrov and his deputy, Alexei Borodavkin, who leads Russia's delegation to the six-party talks, on the results of his talks in Pyongyang.
Bosworth has described the three-day talks as "useful" but said he did not know when talks would start again.
Lavrov will follow up the talks with Bosworth with a meeting on Tuesday with the special representative of France to North Korea, Jacques Lang, while Borodavkin will meet his South Korean counterpart on Thursday.
The six-party talks, which began in 2003, broke down in April when North Korea walked out of the negotiating process over a UN Security Council resolution condemning its test of a ballistic missile earlier that month.
The North recently hinted that it was willing to return to six-party talks, but insisted it first negotiate directly with the United States to repair "hostile relations."
MOSCOW, December 11 (RIA Novosti)
