North Korea ends nuclear program

Canada welcomes shutdown of all five nuclear facilities and wishes Korea to continue taking steps towards denuclearisation including implementing the Denuclearization Action Plan agreed on February 13th.

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cabso1

Singapore warmly congratulates North Koreas and applauds their cooperation with the rest of the world

Reply 23

Apollo

The RSA is going to stand here and preach about the proliferation of nuclear weapons? Slightly ironic considering your 20 year clandestine nuke program which was heavily influenced by Israel, nay?

Clandestine nuke programe? In RSA? With the turmoil we had for years? I doubt it! Please provide some evidence for me to consider

Reply 24

Apollo

OP

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction

Ethereal

Clandestine nuke programe? In RSA? With the turmoil we had for years? I doubt it! Please provide some evidence for me to consider

Reply 25

In answer, I refer the American rep to the part where it says the RSA voluntarily gave up its nuclear programme which is in line with the NPT; the only nation to do so in fact. Ergo, the RSA can claim a moral high ground here.

EDIT : [OOC] tankee for the info Apollo[/OOC]

Reply 26

Apollo

OP

That's a bit beside the point though, isn't it? You still had the program and you still were the benefactor of nuclear proliferation. It doesn't matter that you apparently thought better of it.

OOC: No prob.

Reply 27

Apollo

That's a bit beside the point though, isn't it? You still had the program and you still were the benefactor of nuclear proliferation. It doesn't matter that you apparently thought better of it.

We have decommisioned in line with the NPT. I'm not sure of your point?

Reply 28

Apollo

OP

I already stated my point: The RSA has no business preaching to us about nuclear proliferation.

Reply 29

Apollo

I already stated my point: The RSA has business preaching to us about nuclear proliferation.

If we have decommisioned in line with our NPT commitments your point fails.

Reply 30

ukebert

[OOC] I happen to agree strongly with Ethereal on this particular point, however unfortunately I don't Liechtenstein does [/OOC]

The representative for liechtenstein would like to remind the represetative for RSA that the subject at hand is the North Korean nuclear programme, and that a debate on the US/UK nuclear proliferation should probably be in a seperate thread.

Reply 31

ukebert

The representative for liechtenstein would like to remind the represetative for RSA that the subject at hand is the North Korean nuclear programme, and that a debate on the US/UK nuclear proliferation should probably be in a seperate thread.

The RSA respectfully points out it is interconnected. If we are not allowed to cast a net wide enough to encompass the contradictions of country's foreign policies what is the point in discussion at all?

Reply 32

ukebert

Ethereal

The RSA respectfully points out it is interconnected. If we are not allowed to cast a net wide enough to encompass the contradictions of country's foreign policies what is the point in discussion at all?

This is true, ultimately it is the choice of the representative about which course they should pursue, as long as that runs parallel to the charter. However, if discussion on one topic is leading to the topic for which the discusion was created being undiscussed, as it were, then it may be better to concentrate on that.

Reply 33

veggie4life

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Australia thanks and congratulates North Korea on making a very sensible decision.

Reply 34

Craghyrax

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The SG urges North Korea to soon fulfil the obligations of its commitment in February:

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Reply 35

ukebert

Liechtenstein echos the Secretary general's statements, and reminds North korea of the commitments that they made.

Reply 36

UnaChance

The USA would also like to urge North Korea to stick to its agreements.

Reply 37

Ten Green Bottles

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France both urges North Korea to stick to its agreement, and all other nuclear powers to disarm in the future, making our world a safer and altogether more peaceful place.

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