(MENAFN- Qatar News Agency) Seoul April 28 - South Korea's Foreign Minister will visit New York this week to lead United Nations activities the country is planning to host during its one-month presidency at the UN Security Council (UNSC) in May the foreign ministry said Monday.
The South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that during his five-day visit to New York starting this Saturday Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se is planning to host a public discussion on the global fight against proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) according to South Korea's (Yonhap) News Agency.
A nonpermanent member of the UNSC South Korea is scheduled to take the rotating presidential seat of the security body in May. During the one-month presidency the country is planning to push for the adoption of a statement on the UN resolution 1540 which calls for efforts to enforce legal and regulatory measures against the proliferation of WMD including chemical and nuclear weapons especially by nonstate actors.
The public discussion slated for May 7 is part of the country's bid to adopt the statement.
South Korea is the chair country for the 1540 Committee which was established to help supervise member countries' implementation of the nonproliferation resolution.
On May 5 Yun is also scheduled to hold a meeting with Catherine Ashton the high representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy for the European Union and deliver an address to the UN's high-level meeting on culture and sustainable development according to the ministry.
During the New York visit Yun will also meet with Henry Kissinger a former US secretary of state the ministry also said.
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