Monday, April 13, 2009

U.N. Demonstrates Value

oooooo….. I’m sure that the North Koreans are shaking in their boots.

The U.N. Security Council on Monday adopted a declaration condemning North Korea for launching a rocket earlier this month.

The 15-member council voted unanimously for a statement by the president of the Security Council which also demands that North Korea make no more launches.

The Security Council has been discussing the matter since North Korea’s April 5 launch of what it said was a communications satellite. The United States has said that the satellite did not reach orbit.

U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice said the United States is pleased with the language in the statement, which was a compromise reached when the five permanent members of the Security Council and Japan could not come to agreement on a resolution with new sanctions.

“The United States is happy with the statement,” Rice said, adding that the nation “views presidential statements as binding.”

The statement says the rocket launch was “in contravention” to a 2006 Security Council resolution that demanded that North Korea not launch any ballistic missiles. It also calls for North Korea and other nations to “comply fully” with their obligations under that resolution, including certain sanctions.

North Korea violates an U.N. resolution and the U.N. responds with another resolution telling them not to do it again. 

Useless.

(1) Comments
Posted by Owen at 1724 hrs
Foreign Affairs + Politics + Politics - General

  1. I would change the headline to: UN Demonstrates Its Value

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on April 14, 2009 at 0715 hrs


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