Imagine the world reaction today with German concentration camps! I am sure inaction would allow the furnaces to keep on chugging away.
Calling this disgusting is being too kind. The UN in its current form is useless!
Japan N-crisis draft under attack
Tuesday, July 11, 2006; Posted: 12:48 p.m. EDT (16:48 GMT)
BEIJING, China (CNN) -- China has described Japanese efforts to pass a U.N. resolution that would impose sanctions on North Korea for conducting missile tests an "overreaction," recommending the draft be revised.
"If adopted, it will intensify contradictions and increase tension," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said on Tuesday.
"It will harm peace and stability in the Korean peninsula and Northeast Asian region and harm efforts to resume six-party talks as well as lead to the U.N. Security Council splitting."
Japan on Monday delayed a vote on its resolution in order to give China's mission to Pyongyang time to negotiate.
"We would like to see how it goes," Japanese Ambassador to the United Nations Kenzo Oshima told reporters.
"So, allow just a little time for that mission to get where it might," he said.
Still, he added: "This does not mean that we will be prepared to wait for any lengthy period of time."
Asked if Japan was considering modifying its resolution, he said no. "It's only a matter of timing, not the preparedness on our part to change it."
He said the draft resolution had already had an impact. "I think we have already sent the sort of message that we wanted to give. Of course, it needs to be formalized."
The Japanese decision was supported by U.S. officials.
"I'm a patient person, but delay won't be infinite. We are going to look at it on a day-to-day basis and go from there," John Bolton, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said.
In Washington, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told reporters that supporters of the resolution "believe very strongly that North Korea has to have a message from the international community that their current course is destructive and will isolate them, but we do think that the Chinese mission to North Korea has some promise and we would like to let that play out."
White House spokesman Tony Snow called the Chinese move "a promising development."
A senior State Department official said that Rice, who spoke with the Chinese foreign minister, and U.S. envoy Christopher Hill, who is planning to meet with the Chinese in Beijing, said China needed to get tough with Pyongyang.
Specifically, U.S. officials want a renewed moratorium on missile tests, a return to the six-party talks and implementation of an agreement signed last September by the North Koreans in which they agreed to abandon "all nuclear weapons and existing nuclear programs" and to return, "at an early date," to the non-proliferation treaty.
U.S. officials are also concerned about the resolve of South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun, who has accused Japan of "making a fuss" over the missile tests near the Sea of Japan.
Seoul has accused Japan of intensifying the crisis with provocative rhetoric about knocking out the North's missile bases with a pre-emptive strike.
The comments by Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe on Monday were "threatening remarks" that undermine peace on the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia, Jung Tae-ho, a spokesman at the South Korean president's office said on Tuesday, according to The Associated Press. (Full story) |
