The UN Security Council is going to an urgent meeting on the situation on the Korean peninsula

Russia regrets that the chairman of the UN Security Council dodged on Saturday from the convocation of the meeting to discuss the situation on the Korean peninsula. “We believe that such actions of the chairman are a deviation from the existing practice in the Council of Practice,” the constant representative of the Russian Federation in the united nations Vitaly Churkin said on Saturday evening, ITAR -TASS reports.

According to him, the US delegation "promised to convene a corresponding meeting of the Security Council on Sunday, December 19, at 11 a.m. New York time and now send relevant information to members of the UN Security Council, the UN Secretariat and the media."

The Russian side proceeds from the fact that "nothing will happen in the upcoming period of time, which would aggravate the situation on the Korean Peninsula," Churkin emphasized.

According to him, Russia prepared a draft relevant document for the adoption at an emergency meeting of the Security Council, convened at the initiative of the Russian Federation and scheduled for Sunday. "We believe that the Security Council should send the Republic of Korea and the DPRK a restraining signal, as well as contribute to the beginning of diplomatic activity in order to solve all the controversial problems between the two Korean sides of political and diblime means," Churkin said.

He also noted that Russia is seriously concerned about the possibility of further escalation on the Korean peninsula. "This situation directly affects the interests of the national security of the Russian Federation," Churkin said.

South Korea was going to on December 18-21 to conduct training artillery shooting in the Yellow Sea. On Friday, North Korea warned that in response to the artillery shooting of the South Korean military, she would inflict even a stronger blow to the southerners than it was in November. Then the island of Yonphyndo in the Yellow Sea was subjected to shelling from the DPRK, the southerners opened fire.

This entailed human sacrifices, including among the civilian population of the island of Yonphyndo. On Friday, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed the DPRK in Russia Kim Yong Jae Jae's extreme concern in connection with the statements of the North Korean side about the readiness to use military force in the event of the Republic of Korea of ​​artillery firing in the Yellow Sea.