Tension in the region is mounting, ... The permanent members of the Security Council bear important responsibility toward world peace and stability.

In May this year, India, in defiance of world opinion, went ahead with its nuclear tests, ... After the peace and stability in the South Asian region had been undermined, Pakistan also carried out nuclear tests.

This is an enormous responsibility: the responsibility to maintain peace and international security and resolve controversies that may arise in the world,

We have all along called for dialogue and opposed pressure or sanctions against North Korea. Rather than solving the problem, this can only lead to the complication of the situation,

Anti-terrorism is a fight between justice and evil, civilization and savagery.

That would amount to an encroachment of China's sovereignty and territorial integrity,