N Korea asks UN for help in combating outbreak of FMD - media
26 February 2014, 12:48
The DPRK has appealed to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to help control the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in the country, South Korean media report on Wednesday.
'On Monday, North Korean officials met with partners from the United Nations Organization in Italy to discuss the issue the next day after Pyongyang had addressed the UN department based in Rome,' mass media write.
Meanwhile, South Korea has also offered its help in combating the outbreak of FMD in the DPRK.
In particular, a representative of the Ministry of Unification said that Seoul had proposed to Pyongyang to hold a meeting of quarantine officials of the two countries. 'The situation in the North is very serious. If the North gives an answer, we will try to get a rough idea of what is happening and then make a concrete plan of assistance,'the representative of the Ministry of Unification said.
He also added that this was a 'strictly humanitarian proposal' in no way associated with the issue of unification of families separated during the Korean War.
Voice of Russia, Interfax
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