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(From L to R) Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi, German
Chancellor Angela Merkel, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, French
President Jacques Chirac, Russian President Vladimir Putin, US President
George W. Bush, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, Canadian Prime
Minister Stephen Harper, Finnish Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen and
European Union Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso pose for a group
photo at Constantine Palace in St. Petersburg, Russia, July 16,
2006.(Xinhua Photo) |
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, July 16 (Xinhua) -- Leaders
attending the summit of Group of Eight (G8) nations on Sunday called on the
Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to return to the six-party talks on
the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue.
"We welcome the unanimously adopted UN Security
Council Resolution 1695 which represents the clear and strong will of the
international community," the G8 leaders said in a statement.
The resolution on the DPRK's missile tests, adopted
on Saturday, strongly urges the DPRK to return immediately to the six-party
talks without precondition, abandon all nuclear-related weapons and programs and
return to the Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and International
Atomic Energy Agency safeguards.
The leaders reaffirmed their full support for the
six-party talks and urged the DPRK "to expeditiously return to these talks
without precondition."
They also called on the DPRK to "reestablish its
preexisting commitments to a moratorium on missile launches," the statement
said. Enditem
UN resolution on DPRK missile tests draws mixed reactions
BEIJING, July 16 (Xinhua) -- UN Security Council Saturday's resolution on the missile tests of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has drawn mixed reactions from among the countries involved in the six-party talks.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said in St. Petersburg, Russia, where she is accompanying President George W. Bush for the G8 summit, that China's "affirmative vote" for the resolution had showed a sense of "responsibility." Full story>>
