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Attempt to Politicize UN Organizations' Assistance to DPRK Rebuffed

KCNA

Release Date: 9/16/2003

Pyongyang, September 15 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry answered a question put by KCNA today as regards the undisguised attempt to politicize the assistance to the DPRK by some UN organizations. Referring to the recent unprecedented situation in which the approval of regular assistance projects for the DPRK are being delayed or shelved by some UN organizations due to the obstructive moves of unsavory forces, he says this is attributable to the political attempt of the U.S., Japan and some other countries to use the UN organizations' assistance to the DPRK as a leverage for pressurizing it.

He continued:

The U.S. and Japan have put up political conditionalities on the humanitarian aid to the DPRK under the pretexts of the nuclear issue and the issue of "abduction."

Not content with this, they are openly hindering the regular assistance of UN organizations by politicizing it.

This can not but be a gross violation of the publicly recognized principles of international assistance.

"Lack of transparency" concerning assistance peddled by the U.S. and Japan is nothing but a rigmarole intended to hinder the humanitarian aid to the DPRK and scuttle it.

The international organizations should reject any attempt to politicize the assistance and make it selective and observe the principle of impartiality vital to their activities.