A resolution of Washington collected thirteen out of fifteen votes to the UN Security Council, after the shooting of three new missiles by Pyonyang.
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Beijing and Moscow publicly refused to sanction North Korea, Thursday, May 26, as proposed by a resolution project proposed by Washington, finally formalizing the fracture underlying the Security Council on the North Korean file. “The world is confronted with the clear and current danger of North Korea,” said Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the American ambassador to the UN to justify his proposal for additional sanctions: “The restraint and the silence of the council n ‘ have not eliminated or even reduced the threat. On the contrary, it encouraged [Pyongyang]. “
This new salvo of sanctions proposed to target a group of hackers linked to the North Korean regime, and to banish oil and tobacco exports to Pyongyang-Kim Jong-Un would be a big smoker.
By taking the presidency of the Council on the 1 e e er May, the United States had suggested that it worked on a draft resolution to block the proliferation of the North Korean nuclear arsenal. Pyongyang shot, Wednesday, May 25, three missiles, including an alleged intercontinental ballistics, according to the South Korean army staff. Shots made while US President Joe Biden had just concluded a trip to South Korea and Japan, and rumors of an imminent nuclear test persist – potentially the seventh, and the first in five years. It didn’t take any more for Washington to put the draft resolution to the vote at the UN.
“Additional sanctions against North Korea will not help and will only lead to climbing in the confrontation,” said Chinese ambassador Zhang Jun. The situation in the peninsula has become what it is mainly because of the flip-flop of American policies and the inability to maintain the results of the previous dialogues. “
” deafening silence “of the council
Even if the United States has obtained thirteen votes favorable to new sanctions out of fifteen, their supporters did not all appreciate their method, nor their haste to submit the resolution to the vote, risking these Chinese and Russian veto. “Our Chinese counterparts would have been more receptive if this resolution had been presented after a nuclear test, which represents a real limit for them,” said a European diplomat. The French ambassador, Nicolas de Rivière, judges that the use of the veto “returned to protect the North Korean regime and to give it a white-seing to proliferate even more”.
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