BELGRADE, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Italy's foreign minister said on Monday he would ask Russia during a forthcoming visit to Moscow to assist British police investigating the poisoning of a former Russian spy and an Italian security consultant.

"It's clear that I will ask Russia to offer its full cooperation to the judiciary and to the British police forces above all," Massimo D'Alema told reporters during a trip to Belgrade.

D'Alema is scheduled to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday.

Russian ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko died last month of poisoning with radioactive polonium 210. Mario Scaramella, an Italian contact of Litvinenko who had lunched with him in London on Nov. 1, was admitted to a London hospital after polonium was detected in his body, but has not so far fallen ill.

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