UNITED NATIONS, Dec. 9 (Xinhua) -- A Chinese envoy on Friday called on the Security Council members to do more things that are conducive to easing the situation on the Korean Peninsula.
Liu Jieyi, China's permanent representative to the UN, made the appeal ahead of a Security Council meeting on DPRK, saying that "China opposes the aberrations by the UN Security Council to discuss DPRK's human rights situation."
Liu said the UN Charter stipulates that the primary responsibility of the Security Council is the maintenance of international peace and security, and the council is "not a forum for discussing human rights issues and still less for the politicization of the human rights issue."
"We do not allow the Peninsula to be torn by turmoil or war under any circumstances," he said, noting that the council's discussion on the DPRK's human rights issue goes contrary to this goal and it's detrimental with no benefit what-so-ever.
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