Excerpts of Chinese-Russia draft UN text on N Korea
UNITED NATIONS, July 12 (Reuters) - China and Russia introduced on Wednesday a draft U.N. Security Council resolution reacting to North Korea's missile tests.
Here are excerpts from the proposal:
The Security Council,
....Expressing serious concern over missile launches on 5 July 2006 local time by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea which had a negative effect on the peace and stability in the region and beyond,
...Expressing its grave concern about DPRK's indication of possible additional launches of ballistic missiles in the near future,
...Regretting the DPRK's withdrawal from its moratorium on missile launching.
-- Strongly deplores the multiple launches by the DPRK of ballistic missiles on 5 July 2006 local time;
-- Calls upon the DPRK to reestablish its preexisting commitments to a moratorium on missile launching;
-- Calls also upon all member states not to procure missiles or missile-related items, materials, goods and technologies from the DPRK;
-- Calls also upon all member states not to procure missiles or missile-related items, materials, goods and technologies from the DPRK;
-- Urges all countries in the region, and in particular the DPRK, to show restraint and refrain from any action that might aggravate tension and continue to work on the resolution of nonproliferation concerns through political and diplomatic efforts;
-- Strongly urges the DPRK to to return immediately to the Six-Party Talks without precondition, to work towards the expeditious implementation of the 19 September 2005 Joint Statement, in particular to abandon all nuclear weapons and existing nuclear programs and return at an early date to the Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards;
-- Calls upon all the participants of the Six-Party talks to intensify their efforts on the full implementation of the 19 September 2005 Joint Statement with a view to achieve the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula and to maintain peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula and in Northeast Asia and for this purpose to work together on the early resumption of the Six-Party talks ...
Here are excerpts from the proposal:
The Security Council,
....Expressing serious concern over missile launches on 5 July 2006 local time by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea which had a negative effect on the peace and stability in the region and beyond,
...Expressing its grave concern about DPRK's indication of possible additional launches of ballistic missiles in the near future,
...Regretting the DPRK's withdrawal from its moratorium on missile launching.
-- Strongly deplores the multiple launches by the DPRK of ballistic missiles on 5 July 2006 local time;
-- Calls upon the DPRK to reestablish its preexisting commitments to a moratorium on missile launching;
-- Calls also upon all member states not to procure missiles or missile-related items, materials, goods and technologies from the DPRK;
-- Calls also upon all member states not to procure missiles or missile-related items, materials, goods and technologies from the DPRK;
-- Urges all countries in the region, and in particular the DPRK, to show restraint and refrain from any action that might aggravate tension and continue to work on the resolution of nonproliferation concerns through political and diplomatic efforts;
-- Strongly urges the DPRK to to return immediately to the Six-Party Talks without precondition, to work towards the expeditious implementation of the 19 September 2005 Joint Statement, in particular to abandon all nuclear weapons and existing nuclear programs and return at an early date to the Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards;
-- Calls upon all the participants of the Six-Party talks to intensify their efforts on the full implementation of the 19 September 2005 Joint Statement with a view to achieve the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula and to maintain peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula and in Northeast Asia and for this purpose to work together on the early resumption of the Six-Party talks ...
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