04 March 2016

News Story: Vietnam supports denuclearization of Korean Peninsula - foreign ministry

HANOI, March 3 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam's consistent position is in support of peace, stability and denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, nonproliferation and nuclear weapon disarmament, said a Vietnamese official on Thursday.

Le Hai Binh, spokesperson of Vietnam's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, made the remark in responding to reporters' inquiries over Vietnam's reaction on the adoption of a UN Security Council (UNSC) resolution imposing tougher sanctions on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).

Vietnam wishes that all parties involved will work together to find peaceful solutions for all the issues on the Korean Peninsula in order to make concrete contributions to the maintenance of peace, stability in the region and the world, Binh said during a regular press briefing held Thursday in Vietnam's capital Hanoi.

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