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Maritime Security and Protection of Sea Environment Called for

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

   Pyongyang, November 25 (KCNA) -- The head of the DPRK delegation, addressing the 25th general assembly of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) on November 20, called for ensuring the maritime security and protecting the sea environment.
    He recalled that the IMO adopted new favorable conventions and regulations and amended the existing ones in the field of overall maritime work including maritime security and protection of sea environment and has taken proper measures to implement them, thus consistently pursuing its goal to ensure safe navigation in clean oceans and boost its efficiency.
    The DPRK has conducted multi-faceted activities for the development of the country's maritime work under the Songun revolutionary leadership of Kim Jong Il, he said, and continued:
    The unilateral and coercive sanctions and blockade put by specified countries on the DPRK in a bid to achieve their political goals have seriously hamstrung its efforts to fully meet the requirements of the conventions of the IMO. These practices should be categorically rejected.
    It is important to coordinate the activities among the member states of the IMO for ensuring safe navigation and increase its efficiency and protecting the sea environment and boost the technical cooperation of the organization in this field.
    He underscored the need for the IMO to more energetically push forward the technical cooperation with developing countries in order to help them respond to the new technological changes and successfully deal with the maritime issues.
    Re-clarifying the DPRK government's principled stand of opposing all forms of terrorism, he reiterated its will to further international cooperation in the struggle against the piracy and armed robbery.