Panama on Wednesday said it has asked the UN Security Council investigate a Korea Cuba caught smuggling of weapons, piling more pressure on Pyongyang may violate UN sanctions.
Panama last week to stop the boat and seized goods with North Korea's stance off after the captain of the crew tried to cut his own throat. It was found that the missile equipment, MiG fighter jets and other weapons aboard Cuba said to be "obsolete" Soviet-era weapons were sent to Korea for repair.
"It will be transferred to the UN Security Council, they will decide what to do," Panama Security Minister Jose Raul Mulino said that in Panama City.
Five UN investigation, including the Security Council, is expected to arrive at the end of July a boat, creating just the spring, has been unloaded, Demetrio Olaciregui, Panamanian Foreign Ministry spokesman said.
North Korean government urged the release of the ship and its crew of 35 in Panama Strong, who has been detained for questioning.
"This cargo is anything but aging overhaul their contracts under a legitimate weapon sent back to Cuba," North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman quoted by the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said.
Panama said it had sent two diplomatic visa Korea through its embassy in Cuba's bid to further reveal some officials on the matter. Foreign Minister Fernando Nunez said in a statement: "We have given our consent, so that they can come and give an explanation or check their boat."
Not derailment migration, went USA and Cuba talks scheduled for Wednesday, but U.S. officials said Washington would soon raise the issue with the Cuban ship. A senior U.S. lawmakers said the matter "serious violation of international treaties."
United Nations to impose a variety of sanctions against Pyongyang, including the delivery of weapons of strict rules, contempt measures aimed at curbing its nuclear weapons program.
Around 350 police and border patrol officials combed through the ship, which has a weight of approximately 14,000 tonnes.
They were arrested before the ship's crew burned electrical system to disable it, has slowed the process of loading and unloading vessels, Panama Foreign Ministry spokesman said.
Therefore, it may take 10 days to unload ships, "he added. Ship has four storage areas, each with six containers, so far only one storage area has been opened in a container unloaded, government officials said.
"This boat is loaded, so you can not uninstall it," Security Minister Mulino said in his Twitter account.
He pointed out that, in addition to the two suspected arms have been found two containers have been found.
Earlier Wednesday, Britain's UN Ambassador Mark Lyall Grant said, the ship appears to have violated the UN arms embargo on North Korea. Britain is a permanent member of the UN Security Council.
By the eight-member panel of experts appointed by the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to monitor UN Security Council sanctions against North Korea.
Expert mission "to collect, research and analysis of national information, relevant United Nations bodies and other interested parties" on the allegations of sanctions violations and reports of the Council 15 member states.
Crew tight-lipped
玛丽哈尔夫 Sophie, U.S. State Department spokesman said, Panama has asked the United States on the matter, which will provide technical assistance. She said Washington against Cuba "Talk soon," the boat.
State Department officials said that in the pre-migration talks with Havana on Wednesday even though the United States continues to believe that the issue of Cuba broke UN sanctions is seen as "apples and oranges."
According to Cuba, on board weapons, including two anti-aircraft missile batteries, 9 dismantling rockets, two MiG-21 fighters, 15 MiG-21 engine, built in the middle of the last century, all of the Soviet-era military weapons.
Weapons charges will also be a violation of the arms embargo sanctions against the DPRK.
In 2009 the United Nations adopted resolution says the embargo applies to "all arms and related materiel, as well as financial transactions, technical training, advice, services or assistance to provide relevant, manufacture, maintenance or use of such weapons, in addition to small arms and light weapons . "
U.S. Democratic Congressman Robert Menendez, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued a statement condemning Cuba, saying it requires very careful monitoring.
"Shipment ...... is a serious violation of international treaties," he said. "From a communist regime to another weapon hidden under sacks of sugar is not accidental ...... reinforced the necessity of the State Council of Cuba still state terrorism sponsors list of countries."
Hal Klepak, in Canada, the Royal Military College history professor said that Cuba "with amazing old fashioned weaponry," Over the years, the Pentagon has been eliminated as a military threat to the island.
He added that since the Cuban military doctrine designed to prevent any attack, it needs to keep its weapons.
"Cuba can not afford to buy any new maintenance facility itself and no such demand, so if it is not to give up, for example, aircraft completely, it must be repaired and potentially updating them in certain areas," Klepak said .
Panamanian Foreign Minister Nunez said that his country has no problems with Cuba, but has an obligation under the United Nations to stop North Korean ships and check its contents.
Panamanian Security Minister Mulino said 35 crew members, may be charged in Panama's internal safety hazards. Panama had tried to question the crew, but they did not cooperate, he added.
Mulino said: "They are very reluctant to talk."
 



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