The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore issued a circular informing of the United Nations Security Council resolution, imposing sanctions against the Democratic Peoples’ Republic of Korea (North Korea).
Sanctions against North Korea have been imposed by a number of countries over the last decade, and are mainly concerned with the country’s nuclear weapons program since 2006.
The UNSCR Resolutions 2371 and 2375, which have unanimously passed in August and September 2017, expand the scope of the existing sanctions against North Korea, imposed under UNSCR 2270 and 2321 (2016).
Resolution 2371, passed in August, banned all exports of coal, iron, lead, and seafood, imposing also new restrictions on North Korea’s Foreign Trade Bank and prohibiting any increase in the number of North Koreans working in foreign countries.
Resolution 2375, passed on 11 September, limited the country’s crude oil and petroleum imports, banned joint ventures, textile exports, natural gas condensate and liquid imports, and banned North Korean nationals from working abroad in other countries.
MPA Singapore advises operators to fully comply with the UN Sanctions Regulations of 2010.
“Please be reminded that in accordance with Section 43 of the Merchant Shipping Act, MPA Singapore may close the registry of a Singapore ship and cancel its certificate of registration for any contravention of any applicable UNSCR. In accordance with Section 48 of the MPA Singapore Act (Chapter 170A), the port master may also prohibit any vessel from entering Singapore’s tertitorial waters if he or she is of the opinion that it would not be in the public interest for the vessel to do so, arising from any contravention of any applicable UNSCR,” the circular reads.
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