ASEAN urge Koreas to return to talks
Staff
Cambodia News
Phnom Penh (19 Nov, 2012): The 10 member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have called on all parties concerned to restart peace talks to end the decades of the conflict in the Korean Peninsula.
Speaking in a press conference on Sunday evening in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, during the 21st ASEAN Summit, Cambodia’s Secretary of State of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Kao Kim Hourn said ASEAN urged all parties concerned to go back for peace talk on conflicts in the Korean Peninsula. ASEAN asked all parities to respect the declaration of the UN Security Council, he added.
The 10 nations of ASEAN are Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Japan, China, Russia, and the US, including South Korea, have worked for years to lobby North Korea to drop its nuclear programme and get back for negotiations with the six-party talks to end the North Korea nuclear issue. The Six parties are China, North Korea, South Korea, Japan, Russia, and the United States.
