GENEVA, July 5: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Wednesday said Pakistan shared concerns over the nature of North Korean missile test as it believed in discouraging acts which created uncertainty and tension in any part of the world.
“We naturally share the concern on the nature of this test,” he said while responding to a question during an interaction with the local and foreign media at the end of his visit to Geneva, where he attended the United Nations Economic and Social Council and a UN panel meeting.
Prime Minister Aziz said Pakistan believed in peace and discouraging acts which create uncertainty and tension in any part of the world.
He asked all the stakeholders involved to be driven by the principles while responding to the missile tests.
Responding to a question about scientist Dr A.Q. Khan, he said the government did not have any further information on the issue. Whatever information it had on his activities had been shared with the International Atomic Energy Agency.
The prime minister said Pakistan had a strong command and control regime besides an exports restraint regime that did not allow sharing nuclear technology.
Talking about the Iranian programme, he said Pakistan favoured the issue’s resolution through dialogue and it opposed use of force to settle the row.
KASURI: Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri, talking to reporters in Paris, condemned the missile tests and said he shared international concerns about weapons proliferation.
He said Pakistan had played no role in providing North Korea with the technology behind its missile tests.—APP/AFP
