'We remain gravely concerned about the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's reckless actions which continue to seriously undermine the very value of the Disarmament Conference,' Australian Ambassador Amanda Gorely said.
North Korea's ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, Han Tae Song, appears on a TV screen while chairing the United Nations Conference on Disarmament during a plenary session in Geneva on 2 June, 2022.North Korea on Thursday skipped the diplomatic niceties for a combative tone when it took over as head of a UN body aimed at striking disarmament deals.
Australia described Pyongyang's actions as "destabilising", while the United States, the European Union, Britain, and South Korea, among others, took the occasion to chastise Pyongyang over its numerous ballistic missile tests. Instead, some diplomatic missions sent lower-level representatives than the ambassadors who would typically be expected to attend.The decision to remain in the room should not in any way be interpreted as "tacit consent" of North Korea's violations of international law, Ms Gorely insisted.
During that meeting, Canada read out the testimonies of Syrian chemical attack survivors' accounts in protest. "This can only highlight the irrelevance of the CD in the current context," said Marc Finaud, an expert at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, said of North Korea's role. The US and South Korea say it fired three missiles, including possibly its largest ICBM, hours after President Joe Biden closed a visit to the region late last month.In Thursday's joint statement, Ms Gorely urged North Korea to "observe a moratorium on nuclear test explosions."
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