Quad leaders urge North Korea to engage in dialogue

WASHINGTON/SEOUL: The leaders of the Quad nations — US, Australia, Japan and India — have called on North Korea to engage in dialogue and abide by the UN Security Council resolutions that prohibit its ballistic missile tests.

The call came on Friday at the end of the first in-person summit of the four countries in Washington, reports Yonhap News Agency.

"We reaffirm our commitment to the complete denuclearisation of North Korea in accordance with UN Security Council resolutions, and also confirm the necessity of immediate resolution of the issue of Japanese abductees," the leaders said in a joint statement. "We urge North Korea to abide by its UN obligations, refrain from provocations. We also call on North Korea to engage in substantive dialogue," they added. (IANS)

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