The United States and their European partners in the UN Security Council failed on Monday March 7 to get China and Russia to adopt a "
basic
" text against North Korea, which has just carried out a new missile test. suspected ballistics, diplomats say.
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“
We would have loved to have China and Russia with us
” for this text, the American ambassador to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, told AFP after a closed meeting of the Council. UN security brief on North Korea.
Flanked by ten ambassadors, several of whom do not represent a member country of the Security Council, such as Australia or Japan, the American diplomat read a joint text affirming the unity of this group "
condemning (...) the shooting on March 5 by North Korea with a ballistic missile
.
"
Like the 10 other ballistic missile launches since the beginning of the year, this act by North Korea violated multiple Security Council resolutions
," added Linda Thomas-Greenfield.
The intensification of destabilizing actions
“
As North Korea escalates its destabilizing actions, the Security Council continues to remain silent.
Every ballistic missile launch that results in Council inaction undermines the credibility of the UN Security Council itself vis-à-vis North Korea and undermines the global non-proliferation regime
,” she said. , not to mention China and Russia.
According to diplomats, these two countries were the only ones to oppose during the meeting a "
basic
" and very short text, intended to show the unity of the Council in the face of Pyongyang's experiments.
This text said that the "
Council had met
", that there had been "
violations
" of its resolutions, and "
called for dialogue
“, told AFP a diplomat on condition of anonymity.
Since the Security Council's last expression of unity towards North Korea, expressed in 2017 with the unanimous adoption of several sets of sanctions to force it to stop its nuclear and ballistic programs, it is "
the 17th time
” that China opposes the adoption of a text proposed by the United States and the Europeans, added the same source.
On Sunday, North Korea announced that it had carried out “
an important new test
” the day before for the development of a reconnaissance satellite, but analysts believe that it is rather a missile launch, a few presidential days in South Korea.