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Monday June 12, 2:30 PMN. Korea sanctions bill set to clear Diet this week(Kyodo) _ A bill for legislation requiring the Japanese government to impose economic sanctions on the North if no progress is made on the abduction issue is likely to clear the Diet this week, lawmakers said Monday.A decision Monday by the House of Representatives Special Committee on North Korean Abductions and Other Issues to skip its deliberations and propose the bill directly at the lower house plenary session paves the way for the measure's enactment before the current parliamentary session adjourns Sunday, they said. The bill was sponsored by the ruling camp of the Liberal Democratic Party and the New Komeito Party plus the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan after they agreed last week to unify the bills they had separately submitted to the Diet for similar legislation. Instead of starting deliberating on the bill, the committee decided by a majority vote Monday afternoon to have its chairman Katsuei Hirasawa present it to the plenary session, though the smaller Japanese Communist Party and Social Democratic Party opposed the move. The lower chamber is now expected to pass the bill at its plenary session Tuesday and the House of Councillors to follow suit before Sunday, the lawmakers said. The bill, based on the ruling coalition-drafted one, requires the government to impose economic sanctions on North Korea if Pyongyang fails to make progress on its human rights situation, especially its abductions of Japanese nationals. It also has provisions to support North Korean defectors in line with a DPJ proposal. But the government would be given the discretion over whether to actually exert sanctions under earlier legislations enabling it to do so in light of international circumstances. |
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