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UN resolution bans N. Korea arms exports
[Iran Press TV Latest] The UN Security Council approves tougher sanctions on North Korea, banning all its weapons exports and most arms imports into the communist state. The 15-nation assembly convened on Friday to unanimously approve a sanctions resolution which also allows the UN member-states to inspect North Korean sea, air and land shipment. The resolution, which does not authorize the use of force, also requires them to seize and destroy any commodities transported in violation of the sanctions. It also calls on the member-states to prevent the transfer of financial or other assets that could help North Korea's nuclear or ballistic missile programs. Once in two minds on punitive measures against Pyongyang, both China and Russia turned out to vote for the "binding" US-drafted resolution, which came following wide condemnation of North Korea's nuclear tests on May 25. The resolution "condemns in the strongest terms" the North Korean nuclear test and demands Pyongyang "not conduct any further nuclear test or any launch using ballistic missile technology." It says Pyongyang "shall abandon all nuclear weapons and existing nuclear programs in a complete, verifiable and irreversible manner and immediately cease all related activities." The resolution calls on the communist regime to immediately "retract its announcement of withdrawal from the NPT (Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty)" and return immediately to the six-party talks without precondition. North Korea drew a strong wave of condemnation from the Security Council, launching a long-range missile in April. It still dared for more when it retorted by announcing on May 25 that it had staged a second nuclear weapons test following the one in 2006. Posted by: Fred 2009-06-13 |
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