DEMARCHE TO UNSC MEMBERS TO CO-SPONSOR RESOLUTION

UNCLAS STATE 112806


KINSHASA FOR BRAZZAVILLE

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL PARM MARR UNSC KN
SUBJECT: DEMARCHE TO UNSC MEMBERS TO CO-SPONSOR RESOLUTION
ON DPRK MISSILE LAUNCHINGS

REF: A) STATE 111132 B) STATE 111144


1. This is an Action Request - see para 2.


2. The text of a Japanese-drafted UNSC resolution on the
DPRK missile launches of July 4-5 has been put into final
form ("put in blue") by SC members and will be voted on soon
(text is in para 4). Russia and China have argued in favor
of a UNSC Presidential Statement; the position Russia and
China will take on the resolution is still unclear.
Addressee posts are requested to demarche host governments as
soon as possible at the highest level available to request
that their delegations be instructed to vote for the
resolution and that those who have not already done so
(Argentina, Peru, Congo-B, Tanzania and Qatar) join in
co-sponsoring the resolution. Points are in para 3; posts
may also draw upon reftel points as appropriate and
necessary. Moscow and Beijing can draw from these points as
appropriate. Please report results of demarche to IO/UNP and
EAP/K as well as to USUN.


3. Begin points.

-- After extensive consultations, Japan submitted a final
draft resolution to Security Council members concerning the
DPRK's launching of seven missiles on July 4-5, including an
inter-continental range Taepo Dong-2. We expect this
resolution to be voted on soon.

-- Adoption of this resolution will send the strongest
possible message to the DPRK that its provocative conduct is
a threat to international peace and security and will not be
tolerated by the international community.

-- It is important that this message be strong and unanimous.
We urge you to instruct your delegation to vote in favor of
the resolution.

(For Accra, Buenos Aires, Brazzaville, Dar as-Salaam, Doha
and Lima)

-- We also strongly urge you to instruct your delegation to
join co-sponsorship of this resolution, Already, Japan,
Denmark, France, Greece, Slovakia, the United Kingdom and the
United States have done so.

-- While we would like to achieve unanimous support for this
resolution, we believe it is even more important that the
Security Council send the strongest possible message to the
DPRK.

End points.


3. Final text of draft resolution:

The Security Council,

Recalling its resolutions 825 (1993) of 11 May 1993 and 1540
(2004) of 28 April 2004;

Reaffirming that proliferation of nuclear, chemical and
biological weapons, as well as their means of delivery,
constitutes a threat to international peace and security;

Deploring that the Democratic People,s Republic of Korea
(DPRK) is a leading proliferator of ballistic missiles and
related technology;

Registering profound concern that the multiple launches on 5
July 2006 local time of ballistic missiles developed under a
military programme violated the DPRK,s pledge to maintain a
moratorium on missile launching;

Expressing further concern that the DPRK endangered civil
aviation and shipping through its failure to provide adequate
advance notice;

Recalling that the DPRK launched an object propelled by a
missile without prior notification to the countries in the
region, which fell into the waters in the vicinity of Japan
on 31 August 1998;

Deploring the DPRK,s announcement of withdrawal from the
Treaty on Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons and its tated
pursuit of nuclear weapons in spite of its Treaty on
Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons (the Treaty) and the
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards
obligations;

Expressing grave concern that the DPRK,s launch of ballistic
missiles, given the potential of such systems to be used as a
means to deliver nuclear, chemical or biological payloads,
increases tension in the East Asia region and beyond;

Recalling that in the 19 September 2005 Joint Statement, the
DPRK committed to abandoning all nuclear weapons and existing
nuclear programmes and returning, at an early date, to the
Treaty and to IAEA safeguards, and that in that context,
steps would be taken toward normalization of relations with
other parties, subject to bilateral policies and concerns
which need to be resolved as quickly as possible;

Reaffirming its resolve to take appropriate and effective
actions against any threat to international peace and
security caused by the proliferation of nuclear, chemical and
biological weapons and their means of delivery, in conformity
with its primary responsibilities, as provided for in the
United Nations Charter;

Determining that these launches constitute a threat to
international peace and security, as would future such
launches or test of a nuclear device, particularly in light
of the DPRK,s declaration that it has developed nuclear
weapons;

Acting under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations,


1. Condemns the multiple launches by the DPRK of ballistic
missiles on 5 July 2006 local time;


2. Decides that the DPRK shall immediately cease the
development, testing, deployment and proliferation of
ballistic missiles and re-establish its pre-existing
commitments to moratorium on missile launching;


3. Decides that Member States shall take those steps
necessary to prevent missiles and missile-related items,
materials, goods and technology being transferred, including
through intermediaries, to end users involved in or supplying
DPRK,s missile and weapons of mass destruction (WMD)
programmes;


4. Decides that Member States shall take those steps
necessary to prevent the procurement of missiles or
missile-related items, materials, goods and technology from
the DPRK, and the transfer of any financial resources to end
users involved in or supplying DPRK,s missile or WMD
programmes;


5. Strongly urges the DPRK to immediately return to the
Six-Party Talks without precondition to work toward the
expeditious implementation of the 19 September 2005 Joint
Statement, and to cease all work on nuclear-related
activities with the aim of the complete, verifiable, and
irreversible dismantlement of all DPRK nuclear programmes,
including both plutonium reprocessing and uranium enrichment.


6. Decides to remain seized of the matter.
RICE


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