North Korea has been appointed head of the United Nations Conference on Disarmament -- a 65-member arms control forum --
despite the U.N. Security Council imposing sanctions against the communist regime over its nuclear weapons program.
North Korean ambassador So Se Pyong took over the presidency of the U.N. body Tuesday.
"I am convinced that the conference is able to achieve concrete results. I am very engaged in moving the conference forward," he told AFP.
A United Nations summary showed that "all of the delegations that took the floor" welcomed Pyong's presidency, and that "they looked forward to his stewardship" to revitalizing and strengthening the conference. The summary lists that Canada, the U.K., Iran, China and India took the floor and backed the choice.
A Geneva-based human rights group is calling on the United States and the European Union to strongly protest the appointment.
"Bare months after the U.N. finally suspended Libya's Col. Muammar Qaddafi from its Human Rights Council, North Korea wins the propaganda coup of heading the world's disarmament agency. It's asking the fox to guard the chickens, and damages the U.N.'s credibility," Hillel Neuer, executive director of U.N. Watch, said in a statement.
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