Posted on 08/03/2017 8:54:54 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States could shortly broaden talks on a push for stronger United Nations sanctions on North Korea to include all 15 Security Council members, signaling a likely deal with China on new measures, diplomats said on Thursday.
Since North Korea's July 4 launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), the United States has been negotiating with Pyongyang ally China on a draft resolution to impose new sanctions on North Korea, which fired a second ICBM last Friday.
"We have been working very hard for some time and we certainly hope that this is going to be a consensus resolution," China's U.N. Ambassador Liu Jieyi told Reuters on Thursday.
Some diplomats said the United States could give the draft resolution to all 15 council members as early as Thursday.
Typically, the United States and China have agreed sanctions on North Korea before formally involving other council members. A resolution needs nine votes in favor and no vetoes by the United States, China, Russia, France or Britain to be adopted.
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What are the odds that Russia will vote “No” in reaction to the law just enacted to impose sanctions?
“Birdie, birdie, in the sky.”
Good point.
If we can go by Medvedev’s Facebook post, the Russians are pretty p!ssed right now.
We should have a meeting with them like Michael had a meeting with the Turk and that cop in the restaurant in The Godfather.
Trump should tell China:
U.N. sanctions often wind up meaning little and you, China, don’t need U.N. sanctions to put the kind of pressure on North Korea that the harshest sanctions would be intended to make.
You go ahead and put all the pressure you are capable of, not merely what little you would like to do but all you are capable of. Then we will back you after the fact with a security council resolution supporting you.
Talk is cheap, it costs nothing. You take the actions you ought to take, then we can talk, at the U.N. or anywhere.
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