UN Security Council condemned North Korea's missile launch.

KommentariiChto something zapustili06.04.2009Severokoreyskaya missile has a dead end world soobschestvoSovet the UN Security Council in a formal meeting on Monday, April 13, by unanimous decision adopted a statement which condemned the DPRK's missile launch with the satellite connection. That was reported by Agence France-Presse.
In a statement the members of the Security Council condemned North Korea launch a missile from a satellite, indicating that their actions Pyongyang violated regulations set by UN resolution 1718, which prohibits North Korea any activities related to ballistic missiles. The document also demands the DPRK not to carry out more such launches.
  In addition, said in a statement, the UN Security Council intends to adjust the resolution 1718 to ensure that such situations do not recur in the future. In particular, the planned sanctions against several North Korean companies, which account will be frozen, as well as the list of goods prohibited for import to the DPRK.
At the same time, the Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN Vitaly Churkin noted that further sanctions against the DPRK will not be accepted. According to him, it was only an "adaptation" of existing regulations.
"In this decision, the Security Council does not introduce any new sanctions against North Korea, it is only on the activation of the sanctions regime, which was established pursuant to resolution 1718. And now, the adaptation of earlier decisions to the new realities will be sanctions committee. We expect that he will be able to agree on the matter, he is given a period until 24 April ", - quoted Churkin said.
It should be noted that during discussions the text of the statement, Japan insisted on a tougher position, offering members of the UN Security Council to adopt a new resolution against Pyongyang. Russia and China, for its part, is inclined to a more streamlined language. As the leader board in April, the representative of Mexico, Claude Heller (Claude Heller), although the document was adopted on 13 April and is not a resolution, it still contains a "clear condemnation" of Pyongyang. Previously, we remind North Korea threatened "serious steps" in response to condemnation of the missile launch.
The UN Security Council has begun emergency consultations after North Korea announced the successful launch of Sputnik I "Kvanmenson-2" using rocket Ynha-2. Japan, U.S. and South Korea suspects that North Korea has tested thus ballistic missile "Thephodong-2. The Russian military did not find a North Korean satellite in orbit, but the Pentagon said the missile, along with useful goods sank in the ocean.