CHINA: South Korean Foreign Minister in Beijing for talks with Chinese leaders on how to implement sanctions against North Korea agreed to in response to its nuclear test

Record ID: 560226

  • Title: CHINA: South Korean Foreign Minister in Beijing for talks with Chinese leaders on how to implement sanctions against North Korea agreed to in response to its nuclear test
  • Date: 28th October 2006
  • Summary: (BN10) BEIJING, CHINA (OCTOBER 27, 2006) (REUTERS) SOUTH KOREAN FOREIGN MINISTER BAN KI-MOON WALKING IN/SHAKING HANDS WITH CHINESE STATE COUNCILLOR TANG JIAXUAN
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  • Location: China
  • Country: China
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  • Story Text: South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon held talks in Beijing on Friday (October 27) with Chinese leaders on U.N. reform and how to implement sanctions against North Korea after this month's nuclear test.
    Ban, who takes over as United Nations secretary-general in January, met Chinese President Hu Jintao during his one day visit to Beijing.
    China and South Korea, the North's closest neighbours, both supported weapons and financial sanctions passed against Pyongyang.
    But questions remain as to how they will be implemented in the face of threats from North Korea and fears of instability.
    North Korea warned of the risk of war earlier this week if South Korea joined the sanctions, but on Thursday Seoul went ahead with a ban on the entry of North Koreans involved in Pyongyang's nuclear weapons programmes.
    But it has yet to say whether it will suspend projects it operates in the North that provide a connection to the outside world -- and hard currency -- for Pyongyang.
    On Friday afternoon Ban Ki-moon met Chinese State Councillor Tang Jiaxuan, who was also President Hu Jintao's special envoy to North Korea.
    Tang told Ban Ki-moon "Hu was very happy to have had this friendly meeting with you. We were able to discuss many things."
    Tang, who visited Pyongyang last week, returned with a warning that goading from the international community could push North Korea to defy warnings and carry out a second nuclear test.
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