Alwaght | News & Analysis Website

Editor's Choice

News

Most Viewed

Day Week Month

In Focus

Ansarullah

Ansarullah

A Zaidi Shiite movement operating in Yemen. It seeks to establish a democratic government in Yemen.
Shiite

Shiite

represents the second largest denomination of Islam. Shiites believe Ali (peace be upon him) to be prophet"s successor in the Caliphate.
Resistance

Resistance

Axis of Resistances refers to countries and movements with common political goal, i.e., resisting against Zionist regime, America and other western powers. Iran, Syria, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Hamas in Palestine are considered as the Axis of Resistance.
Persian Gulf Cooperation Council

Persian Gulf Cooperation Council

A regional political u n i o n consisting of Arab states of the Persian Gulf, except for Iraq.
Taliban

Taliban

Taliban is a Sunni fundamentalist movement in Afghanistan. It was founded by Mohammed Omar in 1994.
  Wahhabism & Extremism

Wahhabism & Extremism

Wahhabism is an extremist pseudo-Sunni movement, which labels non-Wahhabi Muslims as apostates thus paving the way for their bloodshed.
Kurds

Kurds

Kurds are an ethnic group in the Middle East, mostly inhabiting a region, which spans adjacent parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. They are an Iranian people and speak the Kurdish languages, which form a subgroup of the Northwestern Iranian branch of Iranian languages.
NATO

NATO

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949.
Islamic Awakening

Islamic Awakening

Refers to a revival of the Islam throughout the world, that began in 1979 by Iranian Revolution that established an Islamic republic.
Al-Qaeda

Al-Qaeda

A militant Sunni organization founded by Osama bin Laden at some point between 1988 and 1989
New node

New node

Map of  Latest Battlefield Developments in Syria and Iraq on
alwaght.net
News

Russia and China in New Push to Lift UN Sanctions on North Korea

Tuesday 2 November 2021
Russia and China in New Push to Lift UN Sanctions on North Korea

Related Content

North Korea Fires Two Ballistic Missiles Days after Testing Cruise Missile

North Korea Restarted its Yongbyon Nuclear Reactor: IAEA

Alwaght- China and Russia are pushing for relief of the United Nations Security Council sanctions on North Korea by reviving a 2019 attempt to remove a ban on Pyongyang’s exports of statues, seafood and textiles.

Sources familiar with the effort said that they are also trying to expand the motion to include lifting a refined petroleum imports cap.

China and Russia want the 15-member council to remove those sanctions “with the intent of enhancing the livelihood of the civilian population” in the isolated Asian state, Reuters news agency reported saying that it saw a version of the draft resolution.

Pyongyang has been under the UN sanctions since 2006 for its missile and nuclear programs.

The draft resolution also includes other measures first proposed by Russia and China nearly two years ago, including lifting a ban on North Koreans working abroad and exempting inter-Korean rail and road cooperation projects from sanctions, reported Aljazeera news network.

A number of the diplomats said that the revised draft bill will meet little support as the West is against such a relief amid a stalemate with Pyeongyang which proved defiant.

North Korean leaders say that they need their weapons for deterrence as their country is under ongoing threat of invasion from the West.

However, the US says that there will be no lifting of the embargo until Pyongyang shows compliance.

“The Security Council has repeatedly affirmed that it is prepared to modify, suspend, or lift the measures as may be needed in light of the DPRK’s compliance,” the spokesperson to the US mission to the UN said, referring to the acronym of the official name of Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

On October 20, the country tested new submarine-launched missile that had “advanced control guidance technologies” which could make it harder to track.  

In June 2019, Donald Trump met the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and hopes grew about a deal. However, the efforts fell as the US insisted that Pyongyang needs to destroys its nuclear and missile capabilities before Washington would look into lifting the sanctions. 

Tags :

China Russia N Korea Sanctions UN West

Comments
Name :
Email :
* Text :
Send

Gallery

Photo

Film

Farmers in Poland are on the streets again to protest EU agricultural policies

Farmers in Poland are on the streets again to protest EU agricultural policies