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NAM Countries Called upon To Demonstrate Their Unity

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, October 5 (KCNA) -- Choe Su Hon, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of the DPRK who is leading the DPRK delegation to the meeting of foreign ministers of non-aligned countries held on September 29 on the sidelines of the 59th UN general assembly clarified the view of his delegation as regards the formulation of the joint stand of the NAM countries on major issues on the agenda of the general assembly. The NAM countries should demonstrate their coordinated and united might when discussing major issues and adopting resolutions at the UN general assembly and handle those issues in the direction of implementing the resolutions adopted at NAM meetings including its recent summit, he said, and went on:
    The DPRK delegation considers it important for NAM member nations to preserve and press the existing approaches towards various agenda items of the UN general assembly including the UN reform, disarmament and human rights, pursuant to the resolutions adopted at NAM meetings including the 13th Kuala Lumpur summit.
    The NAM member countries should firmly maintain the principled stand that the UN reform, security reform in particular, should be made in the direction of meeting the interests of non-aligned and other developing countries and thus clearly show that any UN reform excluding NAM countries is impossible.
    Turning to the issue of disarmament, he underscored the need for the NAM countries to foil the attempt of the U.S. and other forces to handle the non-proliferation issue only at the Geneva disarmament meeting, the UN disarmament committee meeting and other meetings, set it their immediate task to include the nuclear disarmament issue in the official agenda items and pay primary attention to garnering UN support for it.
    As regards the human rights issue, he called for rejecting any attempt to impose West's human rights standards upon other countries and exploit the human rights issue as a pretext for interfering in the internal affairs of sovereign states.
    Referring to the nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula, he said that the issue would be solved smoothly if the U.S. commits itself to drop its hostile policy toward the DPRK and takes direct measures to make reward for freeze on the principle of "words for words" and "action for action."
    The DPRK will remain invariably faithful to the noble idea and purpose of the non-aligned movement as intended by leader Kim Jong Il who has paid particular attention to the strengthening and development of the NAM in order to carry out the intention of President Kim Il Sung in his lifetime and make a positive contribution to the NAM so that it may fully demonstrate its might as an independent political entity at the current general assembly.