Russia is satisfied with disablement of the Yongbyon nuclear site which Pyongyang announced on Friday, deputy head of the Russian delegation to the six-nation talks, Ambassador Vladimir Rakhmanin, said.
A delegation of diplomats and atomic energy experts from the United States, Russia, China, South Korea and Japan visited the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on 27-29 to inspect nuclear facilities in Yongbyon.
"Russia is basically ready for a ministerial conference of the sextet," Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Losyukov was quoted by the Itar-Tass news agency as saying earlier, adding that delegation chiefs will meet in Beijing and choose the day of the ministerial conference.
Russia will soon supply fuel oil to the DPRK, Losyukov said. "That may happen in early December. Money has been assigned, and our fuel and energy experts will do the rest," he said.
According to a six-party talks joint document released in Beijing on Oct. 3, the DPRK agreed to disable all the existing nuclear facilities and provide a complete and correct declaration of all its nuclear programs by the end of this year.
The document said the disablement of the five-megawatt Experimental Reactor, the Reprocessing Plant (Radiochemical Laboratory) and the Nuclear Fuel Rod Fabrication Facility in Yongbyon would be completed by Dec. 31.
Source: Xinhua
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