NAM summit compromises over North Korean nukes: officials

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Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) leaders have backed down from an attempt to put pressure o­n fellow-member North Korea to drop its nuclear weapons programme, officials said today.

A resolution to be presented at a summit meeting here says the leaders simply "noted the withdrawal of the DPRK (North Korea) from the NPT (Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty)", according to a final draft obtained by AFP .

An earlier draft "underlined the importance of the DPRK's participation in the NPT", but those words have been dropped following objections by North Korea.

The result is a compromise, as Pyongyang had orginally wanted a resolution blaming the United States for the crisis o­n the Korean Peninsula, and when that was immediately rejected, tried unsuccessfully to insert a phrase about ensuring North Korea's security.

The resolution goes o­n to call o­n "the parties directly concerned (to) resolve, through dialogue and negotiations, all issues related to the withdrawal of the DPRK from the NPT as an expression of their goodwill."

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