To enter this meeting. It is so decided. The Security Council will begin incineration at the second item of the agenda. The members of the councils have a document. It contains the text of the resolution submitted by the United States of america the. The council is ready to proceed to the votes with the resolution before it. They put the draft resolution to the vote now. Those in favor of the draft hand. Tion, raise your the results of the voting is as follows. 15 votes in favor. Beenraft resolution has adopted unanimously. I shall now give the floor to members of the council who wish to make statements after the vote. Thank you, mr. President. Exactly one month ago, i came before members of the Security Council and declared it was a dark day for the world because of the dangerous and irresponsible actions of north korea. Ago, i said to days of talking were over, and it was time to act. Today, the full Security Council has come together to put the north korean dictator on notice emma and this time, the council has matched its words and actions. The resolution we have passed is a strong, united step towards Holding North Korea accountable for its behavior. The Security Council increased the penalty of north koreas Ballistic Missile activity to a whole new level. North koreas irresponsible and careless acts have just proved to be quite costly to the regime. This resolution is the single largest economic sanctions package ever leveled against the north korean regime. The price of the north korean leadership will pay for its continued nuclear and Missile Development will be the loss of one third of its exports and hard currency. This is the most stringent set of sanctions on any country in a generation. Deep, andons will cut in doing so will give the north korean leadership a taste of the deprivation a have chosen to inflict on the north Korean People. Missilesnd Ballistic Missile development is expensive. The revenues the north korean government received are not going towards feeding its people. Instead, the north korean regime is literally starting its people and enslaving them in mines and factories in order to fund these Illegal Nuclear programs. Even as famine looms on the horizon, even as the regime continues to ask for International Assistance to cope with devastating floods and a possible drought later this year, their displays of aggression take precedent over their own people. Even as we respond to the north Korean Nuclear threat, the United States will continue to stand up for the Human Dignity and rights of the north Korean People. It is the continued suffering of the north Korean People that should remind the Security Council that while this resolution is a significant step forward, it is not nearly enough. Of an outlaw nuclear rise to north korean dictatorship remains. The unimaginable Living Conditions of so many of the north Korean People are unchanged. The north korean regime continues to show that widespread violations of human rights go handinhand with threats to International Peace and security. I thank each and every one of my colleagues who worked so hard to bring this resolution to a vote. I have previously pointed out the china has a Critical Role to play on matters related to north korea. I want to personally thank the chinese delegation for the important contributions they made to this resolution. While the Security Council has done good work, the members of the Security Council, and all u. N. Member states, must do more to increase the pressure on north korea. We must Work Together to fully implement the sanctions we impose today, and those imposed in pass resolutions. The step we take together today is an important one, that we should not fall ourselves into thinking we have solved the problem. We should not fool ourselves into thinking we have solved the problem. It is rapidly growing more dangerous. We have seen to icbms fired in just the last month or it further action is required. The United States is taking and will continue to take prudent defensive measures to protect ourselves and our allies. Our annual joint military exercises, for instance, are transparent and defenseoriented. They have been carried out regularly and openly for nearly 40 years. They will continue. Our goal remains a stable Korean Peninsula, at peace, without Nuclear Weapons. We want only security and prosperity for all nations, including north korea. Andl then, this resolution prior ones will be implemented to the fullest to maximize pressure on north korea to change his ways. Today is a good day at the United Nations. We will need many more such days in order to peacefully resolve the crisis that has been created i north koreas dangerous and illegal actions. As i have said before, time is short, but today we have taken one step in the right direction. Thank you again to my colleagues and their teams for their action and support towards sending a strong message to the north korean regime. I would like to thank the representative of the United States, and i now give the floor to the representative of the United Kingdom. Thank you, mr. President. North korea is no longer a threat faced by a single country or region. It is instead a threat that confronts us all. These two tests in the last month were of an intercontinental missile, extending the threat much further than before, too many more countries. In a world where the north Korean Missile tests seem routine, let me be clear. This is not business as usual. Mistake, as north koreas missile capabilities advance, so too does their contempt and disregard for the Security Council. We must meet this belligerence with clear, unequivocal condemnation, and with clear, unequivocal consequences. President , we have band north korean exports of coal, iron ore, lead, and seafood. These are the lifeline exports that sustain the deadly aspirations. In simple terms, should the north korean regime continue its reckless pursuit of an illegal Missile Program and Deadly Nuclear program, they will have vastly less resources to do so. We have also capped the number of Foreign Workers from north korea. Every year, dprk sends thousands of ordinary workers oversee. They often opendoor for conditions and long hours, and their toil provides critical concurrency to the north korean government. This is undoubtedly a form of modern slavery. Today, we have taken the first step to ending it. The world will now monitor and curtail Work Authorizations for these desperate expatriates. And for those already a victim of this abusive system, trust that the United Kingdom will continue to work toward a complete end to north koreas institutionalized modern slavery. President , north korea theres full responsibility for the measures we have enacted to theres full responsibility for the measures we have enacted today. By going against the will of the Security Council, expressed in countless resolutions. North korea has chosen the path it now finds itself on. That, at a minimum, will lead to further suffering for its own people, and at most, could prove to be status traffic for the whole world. Past traffic for the whole world. It does not have to be this way. North korea should forgo the path of provocation, forgo the path of further escalation. There is no reason why the people of north korea cannot share the normal, prosperous life of their neighbors. The world would welcome, not threaten them. So in this chamber, let us once again call on north korea to halt and reverse its nuclear and Missile Development programs. Let us once again call on them to prioritize wellbeing of there andle over legal and destabilizing military program. North koreas security and wellbeing do not depend on Nuclear Weapons. They do not depend on farreaching missiles. They do not depend on a myth of selfsufficient defiance of the wider world. To live in constant tension with the world cannot be in the interests of north koreas regime, let alone its people. Mr. President , we have taken a step forward. We have spoken with a unified voice emma that we are ready to unified voice, and we are ready to act in response to north koreas reckless nuclear pursuit. Every country must ensure that these measures are adhered to. Every country must live up to our work. This time, there is too much at stake. We simply cannot afford to fail. Thank you. Thank the like to representative of the United Kingdom, and i get the floor now to the representative of france. You have the floor now, sir. Mr. President , france welcomes the unanimous adoption whicholution 2371, strengthens the sanctions imposed by the United Nations against north korea in the wake of the Ballistic Missile launch july last. We thank the United States for their leadership in the negotiations, as well as for their unwavering commitment on this dossier, which today more than ever, is of critical importance to International Peace and security. North korea has for years now n an accelerated pace building a new leader Missile Program, initiated at the highest level of the regime. It is methodically striving to acquire an operational Nuclear Arsenal at the cost of its own people. The launches in recent weeks were another milestone in the threat posed by the north korean program, by clearly demonstrating pyongyangs to bring the entire International Community in the range of its missiles. An unacceptable situation, which threatens the security of us all. Sir, we will not hesitate. This is a global threat, and , this greathreat and direct threat which is being posed, the whole of the nonproliferation regime is imperiled, as it constitutes the framework for collective security system. Bedrock of the system. So we this is not an option, and for this reason, francis conviction has from the very beginning been that only a strong position and a Firm Position can pave the way to a political and diplomatic strategy which is the only possible solution to this crisis. Sir, it is more than ever before urgent to put an end to the north Korean NuclearBallistic Program and to bring pyongyang to the negotiating table. However, spite our repeated warnings, north korea has in recent months ceaselessly flouted all the calls of this council and divide the whole of the internet defied the whole of the International Community. Even the gravity of the threat looming before us, it is urgent to collectively demonstrate our authority for holding omatic and economic pressure to the maximum extent to halt the pursuit of the program, and can prompt north korea to come to the negotiating table and bring about a peaceful solution to this crisis. Beyond this resolution, of categorical condemnation the unjustifiable action by north korea, the council has two complement tree and additional initiatives being put forward. Another group of individuals are now being sentient, and there is an embargo sanctioned, and there is embargo are all key activity, including the financing for don youngs program. John youngs program. These measures can generate lost savings of 1 billion per year for the regime. Clearly, this can change the situation. It underscores the scope of the mechanisms at the disposal of the Security Council when it acts in the unanimous manner, as is the case today. It also provides for humanitarian exemption to the repercussions on the north Korean People, who are not being targeted by these measures. This new resolution is not only a determined response and a decisive response, but it is a further warning, the dangerous and irresponsible push of the regime, which is irrational and , thisical in its goals must be put to an end. North korea must become aware of the fact that it continues to escalate in engaging provocations, we will have no other choice but to further step up pressure, and we stand ready to do so. That is one of the messages we are unanimously delivering today , as we repeatedly stated, sanctions are not an end in themselves, but a means to yangel don young pyong to return to a meaningful dialogue. Given the stubbornness of the regime, to date there is no other solution than firmness, to prompt the regime on the task of reason, and on that basis, to pave the way for a political and diplomatic solution to this crisis. Thank you. I would like to thank the representative of france, and they give the floor to the ukraine. Thank you, mr. President. Ukraine welcomes the unanimous adoption of resolution 2371. We commend the efforts of those involved in drafting the text of the vote. Under the strong leadership of the United States. North koreas invest in nuclear and Ballistic Missile programs is all but the most significant proliferation challenge of our time. Ukraine condemns in the strongest terms these continuous illegal activities. Visiblehighly manifestations in the form of Nuclear Tests and missile launches, there is also an Intricate System of sanctioned invasion sanctioned invasion. Todays resolution not only strengthens the already vast threatens the already existing regime. It threatens it with additional sanctions, and clarifies some measures imposed by the council earlier. Its intention to avoid the effect of the north korean population. Ukraine has always been committed to effective collateral actions against proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. Our collective decision today really demonstrates that the councils consolidated, and i emphasize consolidated, and firm stance to respond decisively to the threat of the global nonproliferation regime. Furthermore, i wish to reiterate the key importance of prompt and comprehensive and limitation of the respective counsel resolution by all Member States to make sanctions bear fruit. Transactions at the global level required to exclude the risk of further provocations and rampant nuclear and missile ambitions. Thank you. To thank theke representative of ukraine, and they give the floor now to the representative of uruguay. Thank you, mr. President. Uruguay voted in favor of resolution 2371, and we hail its approval, its unanimous approval. The unity of the members of the Security Council on this matter is essential to provide a response to the serious threat represented for International Peace and security, the defiance and obstinacy of north korea, and continuing with its nuclear and Ballistic Missile programs. July, there were two Ballistic Missile launches in the same month. Two. Two launches, i repeat. Lake ripley did this in violation of all the resolutions of this council. Did this iny violation of all the resolutions of his counsel. This also undermines the common good and spirit of peaceful coexistence that prevails in this organization. Uruguay reiterates once again the need for the government of north korea to comply with all the resolutions of the Security Council, and to abandon its Nuclear Ambitions. As was stated by my delegation in the past few days during the Briefing Session entitled general questions pertaining to sanctions improving the effectiveness of the United Nations sanctions, as i said, tois necessary for sanctions be effective. This effectiveness should be understood as the full achievement of the goals in full the sanctions are seeking to achieve. Asctions should be designed an instrument that allows the Security Council to achieve a goal, and to be effective, this instrument to become entry to the use of other instruments should be complementary to the use of other instruments. The goal of sanctions imposed on forh korea should strive the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula in a peaceful manner. Referring, mr. President , to what my delegation has already stated regarding the need to work with the benefit of reducing, easing tensions on the north Korean Peninsula, and to make every possible effort to return to the path of dialogue in order to find a definitive solution to this very serious s