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UNGA observes one-minute silence to mourn death of DPRK leader
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December 23, 2011, Friday
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THE 66th session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) yesterday observed a minute's silence to mourn the death of Kim Jong Il, leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).
Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser, president of the 66th General Assembly session, asked the representatives of 193 UN member states attending a plenary session on economic and financial affairs to pay tribute to the late DPRK leader, who died on December 17.
The move was at the request of the DPRK, said the president, and the one-minute silence was observed before the start of the plenary meeting of the General Assembly.
Sin Son Ho, DPRK's permanent representative to the UN, was among the participants at the UNGA meeting, which started at around 3:19pm local time yesterday.
Earlier the president told a press conference here that the General Assembly received a request from the DPRK for the observing of silence and made the decision "according to the procedure of the General Assembly, and based on precedent and protocol."
The DPRK leader passed away from "great mental and physical strain" on December 17, on a train during a field guidance tour, the DPRK's official KCNA news agency reported on Monday.
Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser, president of the 66th General Assembly session, asked the representatives of 193 UN member states attending a plenary session on economic and financial affairs to pay tribute to the late DPRK leader, who died on December 17.
The move was at the request of the DPRK, said the president, and the one-minute silence was observed before the start of the plenary meeting of the General Assembly.
Sin Son Ho, DPRK's permanent representative to the UN, was among the participants at the UNGA meeting, which started at around 3:19pm local time yesterday.
Earlier the president told a press conference here that the General Assembly received a request from the DPRK for the observing of silence and made the decision "according to the procedure of the General Assembly, and based on precedent and protocol."
The DPRK leader passed away from "great mental and physical strain" on December 17, on a train during a field guidance tour, the DPRK's official KCNA news agency reported on Monday.
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