Philippines says it complied with UN sanctions on North Korea

September 8, 2017

The Philippines on Friday said it has complied with a United Nations resolution imposing tougher economic sanctions against North Korea for defying international calls to abandon its nuclear program and missile testing.

Manila is the fifth largest exporter to North Korea and 6o percent of its exports are integrated circuit boards and computers, which may be used by Pyongyang for its nuclear and missile tests.

“The UN Security Council is quite clear. Part of these are the economic sanctions and the Philippines will comply,” Foreign Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano told reporters Friday.

He said the Department of Foreign Affairs received the instruction from Malacanang to support UN Security Council resolutions against Pyongyang.

Cayetano did not say what specific products it will stop exporting to North Korea, but said the sanction is “immediate.”

“We are one with the world in wanting denuclearization in the Korean Peninsula. We are against anything that causes instability, we are against provocation, we are for dialogue,” Cayetano noted. DMS