Security Council to encourage Iraq
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Anatolian Agency
Oluşturulma Tarihi: Haziran 04, 2009 00:00
NEW YORK - After Turkey assumed the rotating presidency of the UN Security Council on Monday for one month, Turkey's permanent representative to the United Nations, Baki İlkin, holds a press meeting with Turkish journalists in New York, reviewing key issues concerning Turkey and the world.
Turkey's permanent representative to the United Nations, Baki İlkin, said Wednesday that Iraq should be given encouraging messages at the Iraq meeting of the U.N. Security Council on June 18.
İlkin talked to Turkish journalists in Türkevi in New York after Turkey assumed the rotating presidency of the U.N. Security Council on Monday for one month.
İlkin said Iraq was one of the top important matters for Turkey, indicating that they wanted to relay encouraging messages to Iraq on territorial integrity during the Iraq meeting, which Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu will chair on the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq, or UNAMI, on June 18.
İlkin said Turkey was in the U.N. Security Council meeting last week for the first time when the Cyprus question was under debate.
Turkey voted 'no' to the U.N. Security Council resolution on Cyprus because Turkish Cyprus was not asked for a formal accord for the resolution on the extension mandate of the UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus, or UNFICYP, for another six months.
"A window of opportunity has opened," İlkin said. "I hope the Greek Cypriot party wil make use of the opportunity and accept a solution on the basis of political equality." He said Alexander Downer, special envoy of the U.N. secretary-general for Cyprus, was seeking a solution.
Commenting on a question on Georgia, İlkin said Turkey supported Georgia's territorial integrity and did not want tension to escalate or clashes to erupt in the region again. İlkin said Turkey wanted the continuation of the U.N. force's presence in the region.
North Korea
İlkin said talks were under way in the council on a draft resolution on North Korea, and "as far as we can understand, new sanctions regime toward North Korea will be very strict."
"There are plans for a nuclear disarmament in the Korean peninsula and unify Koreans in the long term. Policies pursed by the North Korean state do not serve these two targets," İlkin said, adding that five permanent members and Japan and South Korea were working on a draft resolution text that would be submitted to U.N. Security Council members.
İlkin said Turkey would chair the North Korea and Democratic Republic of Congo Sanctions Committees for one year and undertake the presidency of the Counter-Terrorism Committee.
To retire in July
İlkin said he would retire at the beginning of July and leave New York. "I believe that my colleague who replaces me will be very successful."
Turkey's U.N. Security Council rotating presidency will expire July 1.
The presidency of the U.N. Security Council rotates among the 15 members in alphabetical order.
Turkey has been a member of the U.N. Security Council since January. As one of the 10 nonpermanent members, it will stay on the council until the end of 2010.
The Security Council has five permanent members (the United States, Russia, the People's Republic of China, France and Britain) and 10 non-permanent members (Austria, Burkina Faso, Costa Rica, Croatia, Japan, Libya, Mexico, Turkey, Uganda and Vietnam).
İlkin talked to Turkish journalists in Türkevi in New York after Turkey assumed the rotating presidency of the U.N. Security Council on Monday for one month.
İlkin said Iraq was one of the top important matters for Turkey, indicating that they wanted to relay encouraging messages to Iraq on territorial integrity during the Iraq meeting, which Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu will chair on the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq, or UNAMI, on June 18.
İlkin said Turkey was in the U.N. Security Council meeting last week for the first time when the Cyprus question was under debate.
Turkey voted 'no' to the U.N. Security Council resolution on Cyprus because Turkish Cyprus was not asked for a formal accord for the resolution on the extension mandate of the UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus, or UNFICYP, for another six months.
"A window of opportunity has opened," İlkin said. "I hope the Greek Cypriot party wil make use of the opportunity and accept a solution on the basis of political equality." He said Alexander Downer, special envoy of the U.N. secretary-general for Cyprus, was seeking a solution.
Commenting on a question on Georgia, İlkin said Turkey supported Georgia's territorial integrity and did not want tension to escalate or clashes to erupt in the region again. İlkin said Turkey wanted the continuation of the U.N. force's presence in the region.
North Korea
İlkin said talks were under way in the council on a draft resolution on North Korea, and "as far as we can understand, new sanctions regime toward North Korea will be very strict."
"There are plans for a nuclear disarmament in the Korean peninsula and unify Koreans in the long term. Policies pursed by the North Korean state do not serve these two targets," İlkin said, adding that five permanent members and Japan and South Korea were working on a draft resolution text that would be submitted to U.N. Security Council members.
İlkin said Turkey would chair the North Korea and Democratic Republic of Congo Sanctions Committees for one year and undertake the presidency of the Counter-Terrorism Committee.
To retire in July
İlkin said he would retire at the beginning of July and leave New York. "I believe that my colleague who replaces me will be very successful."
Turkey's U.N. Security Council rotating presidency will expire July 1.
The presidency of the U.N. Security Council rotates among the 15 members in alphabetical order.
Turkey has been a member of the U.N. Security Council since January. As one of the 10 nonpermanent members, it will stay on the council until the end of 2010.
The Security Council has five permanent members (the United States, Russia, the People's Republic of China, France and Britain) and 10 non-permanent members (Austria, Burkina Faso, Costa Rica, Croatia, Japan, Libya, Mexico, Turkey, Uganda and Vietnam).