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North Korea agrees to freeze nuclear programme: diplomat

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

Moscow, Feb 29, Itar-Tass/ACSNA/IRNA -- "Pyongyang has agreed to 
freeze its nuclear programme while settling this problem", Russian 
Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Losyukov said in an exclusive 
interview with Tass on Sunday. 
He speaking following his return from Beijing where he headed the 
Russian delegation at the six-party talks on the North Korean nuclear 
problem. "This is a positive move," he emphasized. 
According to the deputy minister, "North Korea considered a 
possibility of getting any compensations for this, including in the 
energy aid sphere". "Our delegation and China expressed support for 
North Korea in this issue," he added. 
"The international KEDO consortium is a dead project," the 
diplomat claimed. "The United States will not participate in it, since
it demands North Korea`s refusal, apart from developing nuclear 
weapons, from the nuclear programme in the energy sphere," Losyukov 
explained. 
He reported that "the Beijing talks did not discuss the KEDO". 
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