Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Alekseyev said Sunday the resumption of the six-party talks on the nuclear issue of the Korean Peninsula is very important and Russia hopes for concrete results from the talks.

Alekseyev, who heads the Russian delegation to the six-party talks in Beijing, told the Itar-Tass news agency before his departure that the talks resume after a suspension of more than a year and the six parties in the negotiations have all expressed hopes that the new round of talks will produce concrete results.

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and the United States have agreed to re-open the six-party talks Tuesday in the Chinese capital.

Three rounds of talks had been held since 2003, but the talks were stalled last June as Pyongyang accused Washington of adopting a hostile policy toward the DPRK.

Source: Xinhua