With its zeal for the rule of law and its unwavering opposition to repressive dictatorships, the United Nations will finally get to the bottom of the Cuban Sugar Missile Crisis and bring the lawless dictators behind it to justice. There is no doubt that at this very moment, the dictatorships in Havana and Pyongyang are bracing themselves against the crippling effects of the soon to come strongly worded letter. Or not.
U.N. probes Cuban arms shipment bound for N. Korea
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. experts monitoring sanctions against North Korea will make a three-day visit to Panama next week to investigate an undeclared arms shipment from Cuba discovered in a North Korean-flagged ship detained in the Panama Canal, the chair of the sanctions committee said Wednesday.
The six-member team will present an initial report on their Aug. 13-15 visit and then a substantive report with their conclusions and recommendations, U.N. Ambassador Sylvie Lucas of Luxembourg told reporters after a Security Council meeting.
Lucas said there has been no discussion in the sanctions committee or the Security Council on whether the shipment violated a U.N. arms embargo.
“We don’t yet have a conclusion if it is a violation or not,” she said. “The committee will only start discussing once we have the report and then see if we have a consensus on whatever conclusions they have been drawing.”
During the closed Security Council meeting, Lucas said “everybody commended Panama for the swift action and for informing the committee and immediately inviting the committee and the panel to assist.”
The ship, Chong Chon Gang, was headed from Cuba to North Korea when it was seized in the canal July 15 based on intelligence that it may have been carrying drugs.
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