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Chinese president vows to ‘fully implement’ U.N. sanctions on N. Korea

Chinese president vows to ‘fully implement’ U.N. sanctions on N. Korea

Posted April. 29, 2016 08:10,   

Updated April. 29, 2016 08:43

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Chinese President Xi Jinping said Thursday that Beijing will “fully implement” United Nations sanctions against North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs as a permanent member state of the U.N. Security Council, expressing concern over continuing tensions on the Korean Peninsula. He also said, “As a close neighbor of the peninsula, we will absolutely not permit war or chaos on the peninsula.”

According to China’s official Xinhua News Agency, he made the remarks at the opening ceremony of the fifth regular foreign ministers' meeting of theto Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse, saying such a situation would “serve nobody's interests.” He also called for resumption of dialogue with North Korea to address Pyongyang’s nuclear issue.

He also stressed the need to build Asia’s independent security framework, expressing his determination to respond to the United States’ strengthening of its alliance surrounding China.

Yoon Byung-se, the first South Korean foreign minister to attend the conference since Seoul became an official member of the CICA in 2006, said in a speech that there is no other country that is as “constantly and blatantly habitual criminal a state in the U.N. history as North Korea,” urging the CICA members to show leadership in implementing the U.N. Resolution 2270.

The CICA is a regional security forum launched in 1992 under the initiative of Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev. It has 26 member states including China, Russia and Central Asian and some Southeast Asian countries.



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