President Park Geun-hye met with foreign affairs officials who came to Korea to attend the fifth MIKTA Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Seoul, at Cheong Wa Dae on May 21. MIKTA is a consultative group of middle power nations made up of Mexico, Indonesia, Korea, Turkey and Australia.
Mexican Secretary of Foreign Affairs Jose Antonio Meade, Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs Julie Bishop and Hasan Kleib, an Indonesian foreign ministry envoy, among others, took part in the meeting.
"I appreciate the fact that MIKTA, which was launched two years ago, has grown into a cooperative mechanism between middle powers that share core values, such as democracy and a market economy," said the president. "I hope that participants will be able to come up with visible and actual accomplishments that can highlight MIKTA's development potential and vision during the first MIKTA Foreign Ministers' Meeting to be held in Korea."
The president then explained the situation on the Korean Peninsula, which has been divided over the past 70 years, and North Korea's recent submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) test, as well as the possibility of additional provocations. President Park asked for MIKTA to have continued interest in and cooperation on solving international issues, including the situation on the Korean Peninsula and North Korea's development of nuclear weapons.
In response, the foreign ministers said that they fully support President Park's peaceful unification initiative and that they would make efforts to implement the U.N. Security Council resolutions designed to encourage honest change in the North's development of nuclear arms and its human rights issues.
By Limb Jae-un
Korea.net Staff Writer
Photos: Cheong Wa Dae
jun2@korea.kr
Mexican Secretary of Foreign Affairs Jose Antonio Meade, Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs Julie Bishop and Hasan Kleib, an Indonesian foreign ministry envoy, among others, took part in the meeting.
President Park Geun-hye (middle) meets with a delegation of MIKTA foreign ministers at Cheong Wa Dae on May 21. The president asked for their continued interest in and cooperation on solving international issues, including the situation on the Korean Peninsula.
"I appreciate the fact that MIKTA, which was launched two years ago, has grown into a cooperative mechanism between middle powers that share core values, such as democracy and a market economy," said the president. "I hope that participants will be able to come up with visible and actual accomplishments that can highlight MIKTA's development potential and vision during the first MIKTA Foreign Ministers' Meeting to be held in Korea."
The president then explained the situation on the Korean Peninsula, which has been divided over the past 70 years, and North Korea's recent submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) test, as well as the possibility of additional provocations. President Park asked for MIKTA to have continued interest in and cooperation on solving international issues, including the situation on the Korean Peninsula and North Korea's development of nuclear weapons.
In response, the foreign ministers said that they fully support President Park's peaceful unification initiative and that they would make efforts to implement the U.N. Security Council resolutions designed to encourage honest change in the North's development of nuclear arms and its human rights issues.
By Limb Jae-un
Korea.net Staff Writer
Photos: Cheong Wa Dae
jun2@korea.kr
