CANADA IMPLEMENTS UN RESOLUTION 1718 ON THE DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF KOREA
The Honourable Peter MacKay, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, today announced that the government is implementing UN Resolution 1718 on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
“Canada is fully implementing the Resolution, which is intended to bring North Korea back to the Six Party Talks and to encourage it to abandon all of its weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile programmes in a verifiable and irreversible manner,” stated Minister MacKay. “Canada welcomes North Korea’s agreement to return to the Six Party Talks and hopes that the meetings resume soon.”
On November 27, the government tabled new regulations, made under the United Nations Act, which, together with existing relevant provisions of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, enabled Canada to fully implement in Canadian law the sanctions mandated by Resolution 1718. The Regulations were published on November 29 in the Canada Gazette, Part II.
The regulations address the embargo mandated by Resolution 1718 on the provision and procurement of arms, related material and technical assistance. They also address an assets freeze and an embargo on the export of luxury goods.
