At today’s UNSC briefing on Non-Proliferation/DPRK marking one year since the dissolution of the 1718 Committee Panel of Experts, PR of Ambassador Evangelos Sekeris:
➡️ condemned DPRK’s WMD and ballistic missile programmes, especially Pyongyang’s numerous ballistic -missile launches and its six nuclear tests, which constitute a flagrant violation of multiple UNSC Resolutions
➡️ reaffirmed Greece’s commitment to the work of the Committee established under Resolution 1718 (2006), mandated to implement the sanctions regime on DPRK
➡️ regretted last year’s failure to adopt a UNSC Resolution on the annual renewal of the mandate of the 1718 Committee Panel of Experts
➡️ expressed Greece’s readiness to engage with all relevant partners and promote a diplomatic solution providing for the complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.