The
Korean Jurists Committee Thursday issued a statement terming as illegal the
anti-DPRK "sanctions resolution" cooked up by the U.S. by abusing the
UN Security Council over its test-launch of ICBM Hwasong-14.
The
U.S. fabricated the unprecedented harsh "sanctions resolution" which
categorically cut off normal trade activities and economic exchange of the
DPRK, the statement said, adding it is an unethical criminal act which
contradicts paragraph 2, Article 1 of "International Covenant on Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights" which provides for not depriving a sovereign
state of means of existence, and the act which runs counter to internationally
recognized peremptory norm.
The
UN Security Council is not an exception in the application of the peremptory norm,
the statement said, and went on:
This
being a hard reality, the UN Security Council has systematically fabricated the
anti-DPRK "sanctions resolution" violating the rights to existence
and development from 2006.
In
particular, the anti-DPRK "sanctions resolution" 2371 which was
fabricated under the pretext of the DPRK's test-launch of ICBM is aimed to
completely prevent the DPRK's economic development and improvement of the
people's living standard. Therefore, this is the criminal act fundamentally
detrimental to peremptory norm.
Article
53 of the "Vienna Convention on Treaties" which stipulates the legal
acts of states and international organizations says that "a treaty is void
if, at the time of its conclusion, it conflicts with a peremptory norm of general
international law". This goes to clearly prove that all the anti-DPRK
"sanctions resolution" of the UNSC are null and void as they have
systematically violated the DPRK's rights to existence and development.
The
statement stressed that all the anti-DPRK "sanctions resolution"
fabricated by the U.S. so far by abusing the UNSC should be immediately
annulled and the U.S. should pay a high price for the crimes it committed
against our state and people.
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