The Group of Eight (G8) foreign ministers on Friday welcomed the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's (DPRK) move in providing a declaration of its nuclear inventory.
The G8 foreign ministers remain committed to achieving the verifiable denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, said Japanese Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura in the chairman's statement of the G8 foreign ministers meeting, welcoming the DPRK's provision of the declaration as an important step towards achieving the goal.
On behalf of the ministers, Komura urged the DPRK to abandon all nuclear weapons and existing nuclear programs as well as ballistic missile programs and live up to its Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) obligations under the Joint Statement of September 19, 2005 and UN Security Council Resolutions 1695 and 1718.
It is of great importance for the DPRK to verify the declaration and swiftly disable all existing nuclear facilities, said the statement.
The ministers also maintained that it is imperative to expedite the Six-Party Talks toward the full implementation of the Joint Statement of September 19, 2005.
The G8 foreign ministers meeting opened Thursday in the ancient Japanese city of Kyoto. Key issues such as international efforts for nuclear nonproliferation and peace building in war-torn countries were the major topics discussed at the gathering.
The two-day meeting is the last of a series of G8 ministerial conferences in the run-up to the G8 summit scheduled for July 7-9 at the Toyako (Lake Toya) resort area in Hakkaido.
Source:Xinhua
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