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| Russia has decided to halt discussions of a United Nations Security Council report on North Korea, due to disagreement on some of its points and concern over parts of it being leaked before publication, Moscow's UN envoy has said. | |
| Russia has blocked the upcoming report of the UN Security Council Sanctions Committee on North Korea (the 1718 Committee) on the implementation of sanctions against North Korea and its nuclear program, demanding that it be amended. | |
| "The discussion was vivid... we put on hold the report of the Committee 1718, because we disagree with certain elements of the report and on the conduct of the business itself. I will not dwell upon it because the report, before it is published, is confidential," Vassily Nebenzia, the Russian representative at the UN told the media. | |
| Nebenzia reiterated that Russia has been vocally against any part of the report being made public prematurely. | |
| "We and other delegations expressed concern on the regular leaks of the committee information into the press, you can look it up in the Internet,” he said. He added that while Russia has filed a request for the committee to investigate the leaks, “some members are not very willing to do so,” so Moscow decided to pursue this issue “individually.” | |
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