Declaration by the Presidency on behalf of the EU on the "experimental communications satellite" launch
Declaration by the Presidency on behalf of the EU on the "experimental communications satellite" launch by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
REV1: The EU strongly condemns the „experimental communications satellite“ launch performed on 5 April 2009 by the government of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) in breach of the UNSC Resolution 1718. These actions place additional strains on regional stability at a time when the unresolved nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula requires mutual confidence building. Such actions are also a matter of more general concern due to their global proliferation implications.
The EU urges the DPRK to comply with the UNSC Resolution 1718 and immediately to suspend all activities related to its ballistic missile programme and abandon all nuclear weapons and existing nuclear programmes in a complete, verifiable and irreversible manner.
The EU will continue actively to support efforts to resolve the security issues on the Korean Peninsula in a peaceful manner.
The Candidate Countries Turkey, Croatia* and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia*, the Countries of the Stabilisation and Association Process and potential candidates Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, and the EFTA countries Liechtenstein and Norway, members of the European Economic Area, as well as Ukraine, the Republic of Moldova, Armenia and Georgia align themselves with this declaration.
* Croatia and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia continue to be part of the Stabilisation and Association Process.
Contact:
- Zuzana Opletalová, Spokeswoman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Tel.: +420 224 182 052, GSM: +420 724 034 154, E-mail: [email protected]
Last update: 7.4.2009 9:54
