If for whatever reason the council couldn't fulfill its responsibilities, then I think it would be incumbent on us, and I'm sure we would press ahead to ask other countries or other groups of countries to impose those sanctions.
If for whatever reason the council couldn't fulfill its responsibilities, then I think it would be incumbent on us, and I'm sure we would press ahead to ask other countries or other groups of countries to impose those sanctions.
All three of these countries are indeed states of very great proliferation concern -- especially North Korea, which uses its exports of military technology to finance other dangerous activity,
We felt that if the Security Council acted without waiting for the AU, it would send the AU a signal. But no other country, including the United Kingdom and France, was with us on that. We think that's too bad.
We certainly obtained a number of priorities that we felt were very important -- on terrorism, on human rights, on management, ... There are things we didn't get. This is a negotiation among 191 countries.
Their threats show why leaving a country like that with a nuclear weapon is so dangerous.
The difficulty, of course, is that Iran has used its oil and natural gas as a weapon, and used it very skillfully with a variety of countries. They've used it with India, China, with others. I hope there's a way to work around the energy question, but it may be awkward for Japan. We understand that, but we think it's important to stick together on the non-proliferation.
Sanctions were put in before, it's not clear they're being adhered to, ... The question (is) whether we should do something else in that area in terms of arms into the country.
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