Russia says Japan's Korea draft "unacceptable"

MOSCOW, July 12 (Reuters) Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov today said that Japan's draft U N resolution on North Korea contained ''unacceptable elements'', Interfax news agency reported.

''Japan through its official representatives has announced that all countries have to vote as Japan wants, and warns that if this does not happen, they are threatened by some kind of negative consequences,'' he was quoted by Interfax as saying.

''I think this is absolutely unacceptable.'' He added that the Security Council resolution must be ''tough, but not brimming over with emotion, and in no way contain threats''.

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