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Sunday 07 Feb 2016 - 11:32 Makkah mean time-28-4-1437
UN Security Council (File image)
New York (IINA) – The United Nations Security Council will hold an emergency meeting on Sunday to discuss the North Korean rocket launch as requested by United States, Japan and South Korea, Reuters reported citing the UN press office.
Council diplomats said the U.S, Japan and South Korea requested the closed-door consultations of the 15-member council after North Korea launched a long-range rocket on Sunday carrying what it has said is a satellite in defiance of UN sanctions barring it from using ballistic missile technology.
South Korea wrote a letter to Venezuela, the president of the Security Council this month, recalling the council's "determination in 2013 to take further significant measures in the event of a further (North Korean) launch or nuclear test."
One diplomat said the rocket launch highlighted the need for "tough action" by the council against North Korea.
Separately, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon strongly condemned North Korea's latest rocket launch and urged it to "halt its provocative actions," Ban's press office said in a statement on Saturday.
"It is deeply deplorable that (North Korea) has conducted a launch using ballistic missile technology in violation of relevant Security Council resolutions ... despite the united plea of the international community against such an act," the statement said.
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