Poland, Belgium, Estonia, France, Germany & UK on DPRK - Media Stakeout (4 December 2019)

Ambassadors from Belgium, Estonia, France, Germany, the United Kingdom and Poland today (4 Dec) issued a statement condemning the continued testing of ballistic missiles by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s (DPRK). According to the stamen, read by Polish Ambassador Joanna Wronecka, the DPRK “has conducted 13 sets of ballistic missile launches since May and continued to operate its nuclear programme.” Wronecka said these “provocative actions” undermine “regional security and stability as well as international peace and security” and are “in clear violation of unanimously adopted UN Security Council resolutions.” The ambassadors also condemned “the recent threats made by DPRK to partners in the region and beyond” and urged the DPRK “to engage in good faith in a meaningful negotiation with the United States aimed at denuclearization and to take concrete steps to abandoning all weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile programmes in a complete, verifiable, and irreversible manner.” France and the United Kingdom are permanent members of the Security Council, while Belgium, Germany, and Poland are non-permanent members. Estonia will join the Council in January as a non-permanent member.