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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has urged the United States and North Korea to start negotiations amid growing tensions over Pyongyang’s nuclear programme.

Lavrov told the state-run RIA news agency in a written interview on December 25 that there is a need to develop relations with North Korea to resolve the nuclear dispute on the Korean Peninsula.

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