{"id":7360,"date":"2019-02-07T10:09:03","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T02:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=7360"},"modified":"2019-02-12T07:50:07","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T23:50:07","slug":"u-n-grants-sanctions-exemptions-for-humanitarian-aid-to-n-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=7360","title":{"rendered":"U.N. grants sanctions exemptions for humanitarian aid to N. Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>SEOUL, Feb 7 (NNN- Yonhap) &#8212; The U.N. Security Council has granted sanctions exemptions allowing the Swiss government and a global relief organization to provide North Korea with a series of goods related to drinking water supplies and flood prevention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A U.N. committee handling sanctions on North Korea granted the waivers for the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and World Vision International last week, according to the committee&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The list of goods approved for the Swiss agency includes pump wires, safety ropes and cables for a solar pump drinking water supply system. They are worth US$26,952 in total, according to a document on the website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The committee also allowed the Swiss government to ship 53 tons of galvanized iron wire worth 63,600 euros ($72,300) for its project on flood protection in North Korea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For World Vision International, the U.N. committee granted a waiver for 110 items, including wire pipes and 25 tons of cement, for the group&#8217;s Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Project. The aid group did not disclose the total value of the goods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The latest approvals raised the total number of humanitarian exemptions related to North Korea currently in effect to nine. The exemptions are valid for six months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Humanitarian activities are not banned under international sanctions, but related materials require sanctions waivers from the U.N.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aid organizations have said that multilayered sanctions imposed on North Korea for its nuclear provocations are affecting their operations through a disruption of banking channels, a breakdown in supply chains and delays in the transportation of goods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" src=\"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/un-1024x512.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7361\" srcset=\"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/un-1024x512.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/un-300x150.jpg 300w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/un-768x384.jpg 768w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/un-600x300.jpg 600w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/un.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption> <br>A wide view of the General Assembly Hall as Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres (at podium) . Photo courtesy of UN Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEOUL, Feb 7 (NNN- Yonhap) &#8212; The U.N. Security Council has granted sanctions exemptions allowing the Swiss government and a global relief organization to provide North Korea with a series of goods related to drinking water supplies and flood prevention. A U.N. committee handling sanctions on North Korea granted the waivers for the Swiss Agency [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":7361,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7360"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}