The U.N. Security Council must respond to Wednesday's rocket launch by Pyongyang, Russia's Foreign Ministry said Friday.

"It is absolutely appropriate to submit to the U.N. Security Council an issue of further actions in connection with that launch," Interfax news agency quoted the ministry's spokesman Alexander Lukashevich as saying.

An Unha-3 rocket carrying the second version of the Kwangmyongsong-3 satellite blasted off in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Wednesday.

Lukashevich said that the response could be in various forms and should increase U.N.'s authority, especially the Security Council's.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has deplored the rocket launch, calling the move a clear violation of the U.N. Security Council Resolution 1874, in which the council demanded that the DPRK not conduct any launch using ballistic missile technology.

Russia said on Wednesday the rocket launch would negatively affect the resumption of the six-party talks, which involve Russia, China, the DPRK, the Republic of Korea, Japan and the United States. The talks began in 2003 but have stalled since December 2008.

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