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\u300029 September 2015\u2013\u2013 In his address to the annual high-level meeting of the General Assembly, Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister of Japan, vowed to enhance his country’s assistance to refugees and internally displaced persons from Syria and Iraq.<\/p>\n
\u3000Underscoring its history of nation-building and fostering human resources, Mr. Abe offered Japan\u2019s support to those who have fled their homes amid conflicts in Syria and Iraq by pledging to triple the amount of last year\u2019s assistance, to approximately $810 million. <\/p>\n
\u3000\u201cIn Lebanon, we will implement $2 million in new assistance measures\u2026 to impart momentum for the collaboration between humanitarian actors and development actors,\u201d he said. \u201cWe will newly implement approximately $2.5 million in humanitarian assistance for countries neighbouring the European Union that are grappling with the acceptance of refugees and migrants.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u3000Mr. Abe made clear that each of these were emergency countermeasures, as Japan\u2019s unchanging principle \u201cis at all times to endeavour to return to the root of the problem and improve the situation.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u3000Recalling Japan\u2019s 70 year history as a peace-loving nation, the Prime Minister highlighted the preparation of Japan\u2019s legal domestic framework to contribute to peacekeeping operations moving forward. <\/p>\n
\u3000\u201cIt is all people acquiring the ownership by which they themselves determine the path of their own lives that is our ultimate objective,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
\u3000He also pointed to the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, lamenting that this year\u2019s review conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty failed to indicate guidelines for future nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation.
\nDetermined to bring about the total elimination of nuclear weapons, Mr. Abe said \u201cJapan is preparing a new draft resolution to promote united action by the international community.\u201d
\nOn related issues, he said, just as the UN does not \u201cavert its eyes\u201d from major concerns, Japan would work with relevant countries towards the comprehensive resolution of outstanding issues regarding the Democratic People\u2019s Republic of Korea, including abduction, nuclear and missile matters.<\/p>\n
\u3000As for UN reform, he said Japan would pursue Security Council reform through cooperation with the Assembly President, and his country would seek a permanent seat. Citing peacekeeping work in South Sudan, Kenya, Uganda and elsewhere, he said Japan also had laid the legal domestic framework to contribute to such efforts.<\/p>\n
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\u300028 September 2015\u2013\u2013 In his address to the United Nations General Assembly\u2019s annual gathering of world leaders, the President of China warned that the security of all countries was interrelated and that no country could protect its security alone and none could find stability at the expense of another\u2019s.<\/p>\n
\u3000\u201cWe must abandon the Cold War mentality,\u201d said President Xi Jinping, urging a holistic approach to both conventional and unconventional security threats, and also noting that globalization and increased connectivity had created \u201cunprecedented opportunity.\u201d
\nPresident Xi also urged a renewed commitment to the UN Charter, noting that China was the first country to sign it, and highlighted its underpinning of the belief of the sovereign equality of States. He called for a new form of international relations, where countries forged alliances and all countries were treated equally, regardless of their size.
\nHe also highlighted the importance of the new development agenda.<\/p>\n
\u3000\u201cWith close to 800 million people still living in extreme poverty, nearly 6 million children dying before the age of five and 60 million unable to attend school, the new development Agenda must be turned into action,\u201d he said, adding that \u201call economies should build on a sound global eco-environment, and green, low-carbon circular sustainable development should be pursued.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u3000President Xi said China would honour its commitments to mitigate climate change, and he urged developed countries to do the same.<\/p>\n
\u3000He also said that China supported a greater voice for developing countries, particularly those in Africa, in global governance. China will also establish a $1 billion, 10-year China Peace Development Fund for the UN and join the new UN peacekeeping system. The nation would establish an 8,000 troop stand-by peacekeeping force, and would give $100 million to the African Union to establish its own stand-by force.<\/p>\n
\u3000\u201cLet us establish a new win-win partnership for all mankind. Let prosperity, fairness and justice spread across the world,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
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\u300028 September 2015\u2013\u2013 In her address to the annual high-level meeting of the General Assembly, President Park Geun-hye of the Republic of Korea (ROK) cited the Iranian nuclear deal as she urged the international community to focus on resolving the North Korean nuclear issue.<\/p>\n
\u3000President Park called for the resolution to the Democratic People\u2019s Republic of Korea\u2019s (DPRK) nuclear issue to be accorded \u201cthe highest priority\u201d towards creating a world without nuclear weapons. She emphasized that provocation would not only \u201charm the hard-won mood for inter-Korean dialogue,\u201d but also \u201cundermine the efforts of the members of the six-party talks to reopen denuclearization talks.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u3000\u201cPushing ahead with provocations, including its nuclear development programme, will undermine the values of humanity\u2019s peace espoused by the international community and the UN,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u3000Dubbing it \u201cthe last remaining non-proliferation challenge,\u201d Ms. Park said \u201cThe DPRK would do well to choose reform and opening rather than additional provocations and to endeavour to free its people from hardship.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u3000Ms. Park recalled that Republic of Korea \u201cis a country that experienced a devastating war and remains scarred to this day by partition,\u201d while underscoring her country\u2019s acute aware of the importance of peace and its strong support of UN efforts to protect it. <\/p>\n
\u3000She called attention to Germany\u2019s 25th anniversary of reunification, asserting that \u201cending the seven-decade-on history of a divided Korean Peninsula \u2013 the last remaining vestige of the Cold War \u2013 will mark nothing less than a contribution to world peace.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u3000Referring to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon\u2019s claim that Northeast Asia lacked a regional cooperation mechanism, Ms. Park spoke of \u201cthe Northeast Asia Peace and Cooperation Initiative to create a virtuous cycle of trust-building and increased cooperation.\u201d She elaborated that consultations among regional countries were already underway on a range of collaborative areas, including nuclear security, disaster management and health.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u3000With regard to climate change, Ms. Park noted that as Republic of Korea has achieved rapid industrialization, it also supports the co-existence of man and nature, saying \u201cKorea\u2026 is actively seeking to transition towards a low-carbon economy, while actively participating in climate negotiations.\u201d<\/p>\n