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DPRK's Readiness to Boost Ties of Cooperation with International Community Reiterated

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)

   Pyongyang, October 10 (KCNA) -- It is essential to create necessary international environment and conditions and take substantial measures as early as possible in order to eradicate poverty and promote development, the main task for attaining the millennium goal of development. A representative of the DPRK said this on October 3 when addressing the meeting of the Second Committee of the 61st Session of the UN General Assembly.
    He said:
    The developed countries should, to begin with, honor their promises officially made to help the developing countries in their development and set a specific timetable to fulfill them in conformity with their actual conditions. It is also necessary for them to take practical steps to settle the issue of foreign debts of the developing and less developed countries.
    The development strategies and policies of the developing countries should serve the purpose of increasing the independence of national economy and boosting their capability for development under any circumstances.
    Unilateralism based on the strength-is-all-powerful theory is upsetting the norms and order in the international relations and posing a grave threat to the economic development in the developing countries.
    Aggression and economic sanctions and blockade against the sovereign states are being connived at and justified under the pretexts of "combating terrorism," "protection of human rights" and "non-proliferation of WMD" and others.
    The DPRK delegation is of the view that the unilateral and extraterritorial and high-handed political and economic measures that violate the principle and objective of international law and the UN Charter should not be permitted and justified under any circumstances, he stressed.
    The DPRK government will as ever steadily boost the ties of cooperation with the international community in the efforts to attain the millennium goal of development.