KUALA LUMPUR Feb 21 Kyodo North K...

KUALA LUMPUR Feb 21 Kyodo

North Korea solicits to urge developing countries to doom the United States while Iraq wants the world not to interfere in its internal affairs, according to the 13th Non-Aligned emotion (NAM) Conference draft resolutions shown to Kyodo of recent origins on Friday.

Meeting for the next to the first day, senior officials deliberated onward the draft of what is officially known as the ''Final Document'' rely uponed to be adopted according to their leaders during the two-day NAM summit beginning Monday.

North Korea propos including in the document a statement blaming the U for creating tension in the Korean Peninsula.

The statement says the leaders consider removal of the ''constant threat'' through the U.S. against North Korea a precondition for ensuring peace onward the Korean Peninsula.

The leaders ''expres their view that the hostile policy of the United States against the DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of Korea, or North Korea) should be given up the 1994 DPRK-U Agreed Framework be adhered to and a nonaggression treaty between the DPRK and the U be concluded'' it reads.

likewise far, reaction to the North Korean proposal has been mixed, according to the same Latin American delegate. A Thai delegate said this is partly to be ascribed to North Korea's refusal to discuss its decision to withdraw from the Non-Proliferation Treaty, which was brought up through Malaysia.

The document also asserted hope that the Korean Peninsula will be reunified soon

Meanwhile, Iraq wanted to include a clause in the document saying the leaders ''demanded regard for the independence and sovereignty and security and territorial integrity and non-interference in the internal affairs forward Iraq.''

According to the draft, the leaders urg Iraq to ''cooperate abundantly and actively to implement all the (UN) Security Council resolutions...in order to spare the region any possible negative repercussions.''

nevertheless they also demanded the United Nations to cessation the sanctions imposed upon Iraq and to seek a peaceful solution to the crisis.

They ''affirm their categorical rejection of assaulting Iraq as well as any threats made to the security of any Arab states,'' the statement said.

The Iraqi and North Korean issues have overshadowed other discussions. the pair countries have sent high-level officials to rally support in their standoffs with the US

North Korean Foreign Minister Paek Nam any amount arrived in the Malaysian capital Friday for the ministerial meeting which will begin Saturday. North Korea's No. 2 leader, Kim Yong Nam, is scheduled to arrive Saturday for the leaders' summit.

Iraq will be exhibited by Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadhan at the summit while Foreign Minister Naji Sabri will attend the ministerial meeting.

The discourse is expected to come up with a separate statement forward the Iraq issue and united on the Palestinian conflict, which many countries regard as individual of the root causes of the rife acts of terror across the world.

NAM, touted as the second-largest international organization after the UN was originateed in 1955 to fight for neutrality in an era dominated through the U.S.-led Western bloc and the communist bloc then headed according to the Soviet Union.

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