Firm, prudent response needed, UN envoy says
(Agencies)
Updated: 2006-10-11 07:56
UNITED NATIONS: China's UN Ambassador Wang Guangya told reporters yesterday
that the Security Council must give a "firm, constructive, appropriate but
prudent response" to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) after its
nuclear test on Monday.
"I think there have to be some punitive actions, but also I think these
actions have to be appropriate," he said.
Wang spoke before a meeting of the five permanent members of the Security
Council China, Britain, France, Russia and the United States plus Japan to
discuss a US-proposed draft Security Council resolution that would impose an
array of sanctions, including a ban on imports of military goods and luxury
items.
Meanwhile, a former US ambassador to the United Nations and prominent
Democrat urged the Bush administration to abandon its long-standing refusal to
engage in direct talks with Pyongyang.
New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, who served in President Bill Clinton's
administration and has visited the DPRK, said President George W. Bush should
next move to direct talks.
"I would engage directly in face-to-face talks," Richardson said on NBC's
"Today" show. "That's when you deliver your toughest message."
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