SEOUL March 13 Kyodo Prime Minist...

SEOUL March 13 Kyodo

Prime Minister Goh Kun in his first cloyed day as South Korea's acting president, onward Saturday urged calm and said there would be no change in the country's foreign policy.

''I solicit the people to help restore social stability and economic vitality likewise that the concern the world has about the situation in our abiding habitation will turn into the usual trust,'' Goh said in a televised address.

Goh also said the conduct will safeguard its strong ties with the United States, maintain its policies toward North Korea and honor its commitment to launch additional troops to help the US-l coalition rebuild Iraq.

Goh took from one side of to the other as acting head of state forward Friday after President Roh Moo Hyun was suspended from office in an impeachment drive by dint of the opposition-controlled National Assembly.

Roh will remain stripped of his official powers until the Constitutional Court approves or lay asides the impeachment, which could take up to six months

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