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Friday 8 december 2017
UN condemns ‘heinous’ sale of migrants as slaves UN envoy meets

By EDITH M. LEDERER meeting on Nov. 28 held that we need to do more human trafficking and calls North Korean
Associated Press amid global outrage over to support Libya.” He said for close cooperation with foreign minister
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — CNN video showing African the British-drafted presiden- Libyan authorities. William
The U.N. Security Council men being sold at a slave tial statement marks a rare Lacy Swing, the head of PYONGYANG, North Korea
on Thursday condemned market in Libya. focus on slavery in a spe- the U.N. migration agen- (AP) — A senior United Na-
the sale of African migrants The Security Council urged cific country. U.S. Ambas- cy, told the council Nov. tions official on a rare high-
into slavery in Libya as Libyan authorities and all sador Nikki Haley said in a 28 that as part of an effort level visit to North Korea
“heinous abuses of human U.N. member states to statement that “the United to tackle smuggling and held talks with the North’s
rights” that may constitute comply with their obliga- States denounces modern enslaving of migrants, the foreign minister on Thurs-
crimes against humanity. tions under international slavery in all its forms and United Nations planned to day.
A presidential statement law, including respect for will continue to work with try to empty government- Jeffrey Feltman, the U.N.
approved by all 15 coun- the rights of migrants. the international commu- controlled detention cen- undersecretary-general for
cil members and read at Britain’s deputy U.N. am- nity to eradicate it from the ters in Libya holding about political affairs, met with
an open meeting called bassador, Jonathan Allen, globe.” “All countries must 15,000 people. But he cau- Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho
for speedy investigation to said the council welcomes do everything they can to tioned that emptying the on the second full day of
bring the perpetrators to that Libya is “making strong end this barbaric practice,” 30 or so centers would not the highest-level U.N. visit
justice. efforts to resolve this indi- she said. The presidential end the problem because to the North since 2010. He
The statement comes af- vidual case but the coun- statement urges local and some Libyan militias also arrived in Pyongyang on
ter an emergency council cil statement makes clear regional authorities to fight have detention centers.q Tuesday for a stay expect-
ed to last four or five days.
Turkey, Greece air grievances at tense conference It’s not immediately known
what the two discussed.
According to North Ko-
By ELENA BECATOROS rea’s state-run media,
Associated Press Feltman discussed U.N. as-
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — sistance and operations
The leaders of Greece and in North Korea along with
Turkey publicly aired their “other matters of mutual
grievances Thursday in a concern” during a meet-
tense news conference as ing with the vice foreign
a two-day visit to Athens minister on Wednesday. Six
by Turkish President Recep U.N. agencies, with about
Tayyip Erdogan got off to a 50 international staff, are
rocky start. represented in the North.
The Greek government had The visit by Feltman, an
expressed hopes that the American citizen and for-
visit — the first to Greece mer State Department of-
by a Turkish president in ficial, comes amid high
65 years — would help im- tensions on the peninsula
prove the often-frosty re- fanned by tough talk and
lations between the two posturing by Pyongyang
neighbors. The NATO allies and Washington.
are divided by a series of The North recently
decades-old issues, includ- launched its most ad-
ing territorial disputes in the Greece’s Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, right, talks during a joint news conference with Turkey’s vanced missile to date
Aegean Sea, and have President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, at Maximos Mansion in Athens,Thursday, Dec. 7, 2017. Er- and the U.S. and South
come to the brink of war dogan’s visit to Greece comes as his country finds itself increasingly isolated on the international Korea are now holding
three times since the early stage, and his comments will be closely watched for signs he might try to improve some of Tur- joint exercises with some of
1970s. key’s international relations, particularly with the European Union. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis) the world’s most powerful
But from the outset, the fighter aircraft.
discussions focused on dis- anne, that happened in have applied for asylum in ularly a threat to our pilots,” North Korea’s official news
agreements. Lausanne. Greece following a Turkish Tsipras said. agency on Wednesday
On the eve of his visit, Er- I get that, but let’s now government crackdown For his part, Erdogan in- quoted an unnamed For-
dogan rattled his Greek quickly do what is neces- after a failed coup last sisted once more that the eign Ministry spokesman
hosts by telling Greece’s sary,” Erdogan told Pav- year. Lausanne treaty needed to strongly criticizing senior
Skai television that the 1923 lopoulos. “Many things “It is very important to be reviewed, but stressed U.S. administration officials’
Treaty of Lausanne should have changed in 94 years. strengthen our channels of his country had no territorial “bellicose remarks” and
be “updated.” The treaty If we review these, I believe communication, and this claims on its smaller neigh- the ongoing military exer-
delineated modern Tur- that all the sides will agree can only happen on the bor. cises.
key’s borders and outlines that so many things have to basis of mutual respect,” On the topic of the Muslim “The remaining question
the status of the Muslim mi- (change.)” Tsipras said. minority in Greece — which now is: when will the war
nority in Greece and the The spat continued during The prime minister said the the country recognizes only break out,” it said.
Greek minority in Turkey, Erdogan’s appearance at two also discussed tensions as a religious minority, while Though the North’s state
among other issues. an unusually candid joint in the Aegean Sea, where Turkey has long pressed for media are prone to pub-
In a visibly testy first meet- news conference with Greece complains Turkish better rights — Tsipras said lishing alarmist rhetoric,
ing with Greek President Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. fighter jets frequently vio- his government agreed North Korean authorities
Prokopis Pavlopoulos, the The two listed a series of late its airspace. that improvements must be have regularly criticized
two engaged in a thinly- grievances their countries “The increasing violations made in their quality of life. the U.N. for its sanctions
veiled verbal spat over the have with each other, in- of Greek airspace in the “But issues that concern resolutions, insisting Pyong-
treaty and Greece’s Mus- cluding religious and minor- Aegean and particularly reforms involving Greek yang has the sovereign
lim minority, which Erdogan ity rights, the divided island the simulated dogfights in citizens are not an issue right to test missiles, nu-
is to visit Friday. of Cyprus and the case of the Aegean pose a threat of negotiation between clear devices and launch
“This happened in Laus- ten Turkish servicemen who to our relations, and partic- countries,” he said.q satellites.q