Now give the floor to the minister of Foreign Affairs for the democratic peoples republic of north korea. Mr. President , first of all, allow me to congratulate your excellency, on your election, as the president of the 72nd allow me to congratulate i look forward to successful outcomes under your able guidance. Before going into the main point of my debate, i feel forced to make comments on the speech uttered four days ago, by someone called, the u. S. President , that rendered this sacred u. N. Arena, tainted. Since trump gave this speech, it is fair for me to make a response, in the corresponding tone. During his eight months in power, he has turned the white house into a noisy, marketing place. Now, he has tried to turn the u. N. Arena into a tricksters s nest, a gangster where money is respected. This comes from a mentally deranged person, full of egomania and complacence, a person who is chastised even by American People as, commander in a grief, lion king, president evil, his ho
Rates very, very low. Night at 8 00 eastern on cspans q a. For his firstever overseas trip, President Trump is in saudi arabia this weekend with senior white house officials. Secretary of state earlier today held a newsn conference with his saudi counterpart. They also took questions on the recent election in iran. This is 30 minutes. Good evening, everyone. Are we ready . Ok. Good evening, everybody. I would like to welcome all of you to the kingdom of saudi arabia. It is a great pleasure and honor for me to welcome my colleague and friend, Rex Tillerson, on his first visit to saudi arabia as secretary of state. While this may be your first visit as secretary of state, you have been here many, many times over many, many years. You know our country and region extremely well, and i believe your country is fortunate to have you as secretary of state during this period. We in the region field fortunate having you at the helm of the state department. Today was a truly historic day in the r
To order. The provisional agenda for this meeting is nonproliferation democratic peoples republic of north korea. The agenda is adopted. In accordance with rule 37 of the provision of the rules of procedure, i invite the representative of the republic of korea to participate in this meeting. It is so decided. The Security Council will now begin its conversation of item 2 of the agenda. Members of the council have s 2017674 document containing the text of draft resolution drafted by the United States of america. The council is ready to proceed to the votes on the draft resolution before it. I shall put the draft resolution to the vote now. Are those in favor of the draft s 2017 n contained in 674 please raise their hand. The results of the voting is as follows. Received resolution 15 votes in favor. The draft resolution has been adopted unanimously as resolution 2371 of 2017. I shall now give the floor to those members of the council to make statements after the vote. I give the floor t
Criticism by israeli president Benjamin Netanyahu and donald trump who tweeted things of be different in his administration. Were taking your calls on the vote to criticize the expansion of jewish settlements in palestinian territories. Tell us what your views are. Republicans can call 202 7488001. Democrats can call 202 7488000. Independents can call 202 7488002. You can also reach us on social media, on twitter, cspanwj. Cspan. Facebook. Com lets look at what the u. S. Ambassador to the when had to say about yesterdays vote. [video clip] because it are important issues not addressed in this resolution and because the United States does not agree with every word in this text, the United States did not vote in favor of the resolution. But it is because this resolution reflects the facts on and is consistent with u. S. Policy across republican and democratic administrations throughout the history of the state of israel that the United States did not veto it. Yesterdays vote from the Was
Of its Nuclear Weaponry and my concern of proliferation. Gather as i was having getings, what is it that we need to do to get china. One of the things im convinced we are unwilling to do and it is from my experience as one of the authors of the iran sanctions universe sanction the of Financial Transactions because that would lead to chinese banks. Has someo that, that of the toughest and most consequential actions on iran. Theave not pursued Financial Transaction Center as an element of getting those who want to facilitate north koreas actions and cream pressure on them at the were created pressure on iran from this engaging with it financially. Freed, have we contemplated the type of financial sanctions that we levied against iran as it relates to those who would be doing business with north korea and he would be pretty them access to their Banking Centers . Permitting them access to their Banking Centers . We are looking at all possible points of leverage and pressure against north k