Wednesday - July 12, 2006

Strongly Deplore

Protesting Missile Tests

A South Korean protester burns a picture of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il and North’s flags during an anti-North Korea rally in Seoul, on July 5.

North Korea test-launched six missiles including a long-range Taepodong in an early morning barrage, defying stern international warnings of retaliation and prompting concerns that it could follow with more tests. (AP/ Lee Jin-man)

China, Russia Float Own Plan on N. Korea
—_{UNITED NATIONS (AP) - July 12, 2006, 1:57 PM EDT}

China and Russia introduced a resolution Wednesday deploring North Korea’s missile tests but dropping language from a rival proposal that could have led to military action against Pyongyang. The draft, obtained by The Associated Press, “strongly deplores” North Korea’s missile tests last week and urges Pyongyang to re-establish a moratorium on such launches.

It requests—but does not demand—that all U.N. members “exercise vigilance in preventing supply of items, materials, goods and technologies that could contribute” to North Korea’s missile program. The resolution also calls on member nations “not to procure missiles or missile-related items” or technology from the North.

Chinese Ambassador Wang Guangya said he had been instructed to veto a much- stronger Japanese resolution, which is supported by the United States, Britain, France and four other countries. Wang previously said Beijing objected to three key elements in the Japanese draft: the determination that the missile tests threatened international peace and security; authorizing action under Chapter 7 of the U.N. Charter, which can be enforced militarily; and mandatory sanctions aimed at curbing North Korea’s missile and nuclear programs.

The Chinese-Russian draft resolution drops those three elements, which Japan and the United States consider crucial. Japanese Ambassador Kenzo Oshima and U.S. Ambassador John Bolton said they were still prepared to put their resolution to a vote—even with the prospect of a Chinese veto. Oshima called the Chinese-Russian draft “a move in the right direction” but said “a quick glance shows that there are very serious gaps on very important issues.”

“I think it will be very difficult for us to accept that as it is,” Oshima said. Bolton also cited “deficiencies,” notably the Chinese-Russian draft’s elimination of the reference to the tests as a threat to international peace and its use of the weaker word “calls” rather than “decides” in the Japanese text.

Posted by The Skipper     on 07/12/2006 at 02:41 PM   
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