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and build economic, cultural, and other ties between them.
9. Whenever necessary, the six nations would hold foreign minister-level meetings to review
compliance with the Joint Statement and seek to remove possible barriers to the resolution of
the nuclear crisis on the peninsula.
It would be important to use the Iranian nuclear program case as a precedent in negotiations on
the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula (with due account being taken of the specific char-
acter of the North Korea issue) if the current efforts to solve the Iranian problem produce an
acceptable result from the point of view of the international nuclear non-proliferation regime.
The search for a solution to the North Korea nuclear problem is inseparably linked to the Russian
initiative for creating a peace and security mechanism for Northeast Asia. It is obvious that such
a mechanism can hardly materialize if no progress is made towards a North Korea nuclear deal.
Nonetheless, it is important not only that our fellow participants in the six-nation talks should
time and again be reminded of the Russian idea and a Moscow-proposed agreement on basic
principles for peace and security in the region but also that the working group set up as part of
the six-nation mechanism should resume its efforts.
A Russian-Chinese initiative approved at a recent Northeast Asian summit is also potentially
fruitful from the point of view of building a new system of security and cooperation in the
Asia-Pacific Region.