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Rice adds Moscow stop to Asia tour on NKorea crisis

Rice adds Moscow stop to Asia tour on NKorea crisisUS Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will visit Russia later this week as part of a foreign tour focussed on enacting tough UN sanctions against North Korea over its announced nuclear test, a State Department official said.
Rice will travel to Moscow following visits to Japan, South Korea and China in the wake of a UN Security Council vote this weekend imposing wide-ranging punitive sanctions against North Korea, the official said.
Details of Rice's Russia visit would be released later in the day, the official said on condition of anonymity.

Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2006