Byline: Matthew Russell Lee of Inner City Press at the UN: Exclusive
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UNITED NATIONS, May 28 -- Five days after North Korea conducted an underground nuclear test, a draft resolution emerged behind closed doors at the UN Security Council. The three-page draft, a copy of which Inner City Press has exclusively obtained and puts online here, has 14 operative paragraphs, one of which, Paragraph 8, is still subject to discussion.
Paragraph 6, for example, calls on "all Member States immediately to enforce the measures that were put in place by resolution 1718 (2006)" and in the Presidential Statement earlier this year, after North Korea's launch of a rocket that it called a satellite. Paragraph 2 "demands that [North Korea] not conduct any further nuclear test or launch."
While the draft resolution seems unlikely to change North Korea's course, it has been the subject of intense journalistic interest at the UN in New York, particularly by Japanese media, who have remained camped out in front of the Security Council during meetings on Abkhazia, Somalia, and on May 28, Bosnia and the Congo.
The US Mission to the UN on May 27 held a by invitation only briefing of selected journalists, after which stories were published quoting anonymous Western and American diplomats that there was an agreement in principle but that no draft would be circulated until next week.
On the morning of May 28, Inner City Press obtained the draft resolution that, as a must-credit exclusive, it puts online here. Watch this site.
