China urges parties to maintain peace on Korean Peninsula
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-07-16 08:24
UNITED NATIONS, July 15 -- Wang Guangya, Chinese permanent representative to
the United Nations, said here Saturday that China is ready to make joint efforts
with all the parties concerned to maintain peace and stability on the Korean
Peninsula.
Wang Guangya, Chinese
permanent representative to the United Nations,speaks at the Security
Council Meeting on the DPRK Missile crisis at the UN headquarters in New
York, Saturday, July 15, 2006.[Reuters/Xinhua] |
Wang made the remarks after the UN Security Council adopted a draft
resolution on the missile launches by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea
(DPRK).
Wang said China has always been committed to maintaining peace and stability
on the Korean Peninsula and insisted on resolving the relevant issues through
peaceful dialogues and negotiations.
"The Chinese side is ready to make joint efforts with all the parties
concerned to overcome difficulties, create conditions, promote the Six-Party
Talks, and jointly maintain peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula and in
the Northeast Asia," he said.
Wang noted that since the discussion started in the Security Council on the
DPRK missile launching, China has acted persistently to serve two major
objectives of maintaining peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula and the
unity of the Security Council.
China has consistently advocated that the Security Council should make
appropriate response as soon as possible, send a unified message to the
international community, reactivate a new round of diplomatic efforts, and bring
about an early resumption of the Six-Party Talks, he added.
Wang stressed that China has adopted a responsible attitude and firmly
opposed to forcing through a vote on a draft resolution that is not conducive to
unity and will further complicate and aggravate the situation, cause grave
consequences for peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula, and create
enormous obstacles for the Six-Party Talks and other important diplomatic
endeavors.
He said that China and Russia have put forward elements of a draft
presidential statement and then a draft resolution. "We have made constructive
and vigorous efforts to seek consensus on this issue by the Council members," he
noted.
He expressed the hope that the resolution just adopted will help all the
parties concerned to act calmly and continue the diplomatic endeavors for the
denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and the normalization of relations
between the countries concerned.
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