DPRK (North Korea)
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The Council is unlikely to take the key issues relating to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s (DPRK) nuclear programme in September. However, an interim report is due from the Panel of Experts assisting the Sanctions Committee. The report was requested in resolution 1874, which established the Panel and was adopted on 12 June after the DPRK’s latest missile test.
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The Council is expecting a briefing in August by the chairman of the 1718 Sanctions Committee on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). No action in the Council itself is scheduled. However, many Council members have noted how effective and balanced the format involving the whole fifteen members was in discussion of the 6 July press statement from the president.
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At press time the P5 and Japan were holding consultations to determine a Council response to the launch of a rocket on 5 April, claimed by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) to be for the purpose of placing a satellite in orbit.
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The Sanctions Committee on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) is expected to submit its annual report in January and brief the Council on recent activity. At press time it was not known who the new chairman of the Committee will be. (Italy, the current chair, leaves the Council on 31 December.) The Committee’s report is likely to be limited as there has been no Committee activity since July 2007. No Council action is expected.
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The Chairman of the Sanctions Committee on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), Ambassador Giulio Terzi di Sant’Agata of Italy, will brief the Council in informal consultations in October. The Committee must report to the Council every ninety days.
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The Chairman of the Sanctions Committee on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), Ambassador Marcello Spatafora of Italy, will brief the Council in July. The Committee, which was established by resolution 1718 following North Korea’s October 2006 nuclear test, must report to the Council every 90 days.
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The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is expected to be on the Council’s work programme in April. The Chairman of the Sanctions Committee, Ambassador Marcello Spatafora of Italy, will provide a briefing during Council consultations on the issue. The Committee has been largely inactive since early 2007 after deciding to await the outcome of the six-party talks on the DPRK’s nuclear programme. The briefing is unlikely to contain any new information leading to Council action.
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The Chairman of the Sanctions Committee on the Democratic Republic of North Korea, Ambassador Marcello Spatafora of Italy, will brief the Council in January. Although resolution 1718, adopted in October 2006 after North Korea’s nuclear test, mandated a report every ninety days, because of the positive developments in 2007 the Sanctions Committee seems unlikely to have much to report.
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The Chairman of the Sanctions Committee on the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea, Ambassador Marcello Spatafora of Italy, will brief the Council in October. Resolution 1718, which established the Committee in October 2006 following North Korea's nuclear test, requires a report every ninety days.
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Ambassador Marcello Spatafora of Italy, the Chair of the Sanctions Committee on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (the DPRK, or North Korea), will brief the Council in July. Resolution 1718, which in October established the Sanctions Committee, requires a report every 90 days.
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The Sanctions Committee on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (the DPRK, or North Korea) will give its second briefing to the Council in April. Resolution 1718, which in October expressed grave concern over North Korea's nuclear test and set up the Sanctions Committee, requires a report every ninety days.
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No Council action is expected, provided that the six-nation talks on North Korea's nuclear programme are sustained. However, the Sanctions Committee will report on implementation of resolution 1718.
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The Council may receive a briefing from the Sanctions Committee on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on the steps taken by UN member states to implement resolution 1718. Resolution 1718 asks member states "to report to the Security Council" by 13 November on actions taken to implement the resolution.
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The Council has now held one session of informal consultations on 5 July and two meetings of experts on 5 and 6 July on the issue of North Korea's firing of ballistic missiles on 4 and 5 July.
