The US government announced that it is currently negotiating with members of the Security Council as it seeks to issue a UN Security Council presidential statement condemning North Korea’s intercontinental ballistic missile launch. Although attention is focused on whether China and Russia will agree to adopt the declaration, China has been evaluated as having made some progress in implementing UN Security Council sanctions. Reporter Ham Ji-ha reports. (Video commentary: Lee Sang-hoon / Video editing: Lee Sang-do)
On the 29th, a spokesperson for the US mission to the United Nations responded to VOA’s inquiry regarding the presidential statement to North Korea, saying, “We are discussing the chairman’s statement with members of the Security Council, and we will move to discuss soon. the entire Security Council.”
Earlier, US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield said at a public meeting held by the United Nations Security Council on the 21st to discuss the issue of North Korea’s recent intercontinental ballistic missile launch.
Linda Thomas-Greenfield / US Ambassador to the United Nations (last 21st)
“The United States will offer a statement from the chairman of the Security Council. The Security Council should follow the same robust measures it voted on in May, but as part of a step forward, it is ready to accept the claim of other members of the Council, who said on March 24 that they would have “considered a decision chairman. statement” about North Korea’s ICBM launch. It has.”
Therefore, it is assumed that the US government has finished drafting the current chairman’s statement and is discussing specific topics with some members of the Security Council, but it is not known whether China and Russia are discussing this issue with the United States. The chairman’s statement can only be adopted when a majority of all members agree, without any opposition from permanent members, including China and Russia.
The United States previously proposed and drafted a resolution to adopt additional sanctions against North Korea for the North’s ICBM launch in March, but China and Russia vetoed it in a vote in May.
China later revealed that it was proposing a chairman’s statement instead of a new North Korean resolution. Accordingly, it seems that the United States is trying to put pressure on China by creating a situation where it accepts China’s opinion, which the chairman’s statement offered at the time.
VOA has not yet received a response from China and Russia to ask if they would approve the chairman’s statement. In the midst of this, the anti-money laundering organization FATF changed its assessment of the implementation of certain sanctions against the Chinese government from non-compliance to compliance.
In the ‘follow-up report’ released by the anti-money laundering organization FATF on the 29th, item 7 of the recommendation dealing with the issue of ‘diffusion finance’ was changed from the ‘non-compliant’ grade, or the CC, present. to a ‘partially compliant’ PC degree.
‘Recommendation No. 7’ is an item that evaluates whether each country has created the necessary legal authority to implement Security Council resolutions against North Korea in accordance with standards and procedures. In 2019, China had the non-compliance , or lowest NC score.
In a follow-up report, the Anti-Money Laundering Agency said in its follow-up report that China has made positive progress in implementing detailed financial sanctions related to proliferation financing since the mutual assessment report presented as an example.
The Anti-Money Laundering Institute was established in 1989 at the G7 Summit of seven major countries to deal with money laundering using financial institutions. We publish the report later.
This is VOA News Hamjiha.
