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<p>Following the publication of the Commission’s report in February 2014, the UK has
worked with the EU and like-minded partners to ensure strong resolutions on DPRK human
rights at both the UN Human Rights Council and the UN General Assembly, including
language condemning the ongoing systematic, widespread and gross violations of human
rights in the DPRK, commending the work of the Commission of Inquiry and encouraging
the UN Security Council to consider the relevant conclusions and recommendations of
the Commission and take appropriate action to ensure accountability. <br><br>We have
also worked to ensure formal discussion of DPRK human rights by the UN Security Council.
On 5 December the UK, along with nine other members of the Security Council, sent
a joint letter to the President of the Security Council, requesting that the situation
in the DPRK be placed on the Council’s agenda. A meeting to discuss this new agenda
item took place on 22 December. During this first discussion the UK used our intervention
to express our concern at the human rights situation in the DPRK and our belief that
if the DPRK will not hold human rights violators to account, the international community
must be ready to do so. We also underlined that the DPRK authorities bear primary
responsibility for protecting human rights and expressed our regret that they have
withdrawn the offers of engagement made in the run up to the Third Committee vote.</p>
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