対北朝鮮で声明出せず　弾道ミサイル発射―国連安保理

　【ニューヨーク時事】国連安全保障理事会は２０日午後（日本時間２１日午前）、北朝鮮が１９日に弾道ミサイルを発射したことを受け、非公開の緊急会合を開いた。ミサイル活動を活発化させた９月以降、北朝鮮情勢をめぐる安保理会合は３回目。過去２回に続き、今回も安保理全体としての声明は出なかった。
　安保理外交筋によると、開催を要請した米英両国とフランスなどが北朝鮮を非難。一方、中国は米国による制裁緩和を要求するなど理事国間で意見が割れた。
　トーマスグリーンフィールド米国連大使は会合前に記者会見し、北朝鮮が新型の潜水艦発射弾道ミサイル（ＳＬＢＭ）だったと主張している今回の発射実験について、「複数の安保理決議に違反する」と強調。北朝鮮に対し「決議に従い、朝鮮半島の完全な非核化という目標に向けて持続的で実質的な対話に関与する時だ」と訴えた。（2021/10/21-09:21）

The U.N. Security Council at an emergency meeting held behind closed doors Wednesday failed to adopt a joint statement against North Korea after the country launched a ballistic missile the previous day.
   The meeting, convened at the request of the United States and other countries in response to the missile firing, was the third of its kind since Pyongyang started to ramp up missile activities last month. The top U.N. body also could not adopt any statement in the past two meetings.
   According to sources linked to the Security Council, member nations remained divided at the latest meeting, with the United States, Britain and France criticizing North Korea and China demanding the United States ease sanctions against the reclusive state.
   Holding a press conference ahead of the emergency gathering, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, stressed that North Korea test-fired what it claims to be a submarine-launched ballistic missile Tuesday in violation of multiple Security Council resolutions.
   She also said it is time for North Korea to engage in sustained and substantive dialogue toward the goal of complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.