Korean Lawyers Committee Sheds Light on Criminal Truth of UN "Resolutions on Sanctions"

Pyongyang, March 17 (KCNA) -- The Korean Lawyers Committee released a white paper on Thursday to shed light on the background of the illegal "sanctions resolutions" cooked up by the UN Security Council against sovereign states and absurdity of the legal grounds claimed by the UN Secretariat. According to the white paper, the history of sanctions of the UN is a history of crimes tainted with high-handedness and arbitrariness. The white paper says: The first sanctions resolution in the UN history was the "resolution 232" that the UNSC adopted on December 16, 1966 under the instigation of the United States, taking issue with the declaration of independence of the former Rhodesia (today's Zimbabwe) as a threat to international peace and security. There continued criticism of the excessive use of authority of the UN Security Council that began with adoption of the sanctions resolution against Rhodesia. This notwithstanding, the United States with a view to overthrowing those unfavorable countries mobilized the UN Security Council to manipulate the sanctions resolutions one after another on Iraq in 1990, Yugoslavia in 1991 and Libya, Cambodia, Somalia, Liberia and Rwanda in 1992. The "sanctions resolutions" of the UN against the DPRK are criminal documents devoid of legality, morality and impartiality. The UN "sanctions resolutions" against the DPRK are not the issue confined to the DPRK alone. The UN Secretariat should, in accordance with its basic mission of maintaining international peace and security, fulfill its responsibility before the international community by positively responding to this proposal on organizing the forum of international legal experts to clarify the legal ground of the ''sanctions resolutions'' against the DPRK. -0-