We, the G7 Overseas Ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK, the USA of America, and the Excessive Consultant of the European Union, condemn within the strongest phrases North Korea’s December 18 (native time) launch of an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM), following 4 earlier ICBM launches this 12 months in addition to different launches utilizing ballistic missile know-how.
North Korea continues to advance its illegal nuclear and ballistic missile capabilities and to escalate its destabilizing actions. We reiterate our name for the whole denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and demand that North Korea abandon all its nuclear weapons, current nuclear packages, and all different current weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and ballistic missile packages in a whole, verifiable, and irreversible method in accordance with all related United Nations Safety Council Resolutions (UNSCRs). We deplore North Korea’s option to prioritize its illegal WMD and ballistic missile packages over the welfare of the folks in North Korea.
North Korea’s repeated reckless actions have to be met with a swift, united, and strong worldwide response, significantly by the United Nations Safety Council (UNSC). We urge UNSC Members to observe via on their commitments and name on all UN Member States to totally and successfully implement related UNSCRs. On this context, we’re deeply involved concerning the potential for any switch of nuclear or ballistic missile-related know-how to North Korea, which might additional threaten the peace and stability of the area in addition to throughout the globe, and significantly undermine the worldwide non-proliferation regime that all of us worth and that considerably contributes to our collective safety. We additionally reiterate our robust condemnation on arms transfers from North Korea to Russia, which immediately violate related UNSCRs. We urge North Korea and Russia to abide by related UNSCRs and instantly stop all such actions. We proceed to name on North Korea to have interaction in significant diplomacy and settle for the repeated presents of dialogue with out preconditions put ahead by Japan, the USA, and the Republic of Korea.
The G7 stays dedicated to working with all related companions towards the aim of peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula and to upholding the worldwide order based mostly on the rule of legislation.
