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　ロイター（Reuters）が、北朝鮮のロケット発射問題で、国連安全保障委員会が、議長声明を全会一致で採択したことを伝えています。そこで、議長声明のフルテキストを探してみました。それが以下のものです。イタリックや太字、下線は私がつけたものです。

The Security Council bears in mind the importance of maintaining peace and security on the Korean peninsula and in northeast Asia as a whole. The Security Council condemns the 5 April 2009 (local time) launch by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), which is in contravention of Security Council resolution 1718 (2006).
The Security Council reiterates that the DPRK must comply fully with its obligations under Security Council resolution 1718 (2006).
The Security Council demands that the DPRK not conduct any further launch..
The Security Council also calls upon all Member States to comply fully with their obligations under resolution 1718 (2006).
The Security Council agrees to adjust the measures imposed by paragraph 8 of resolution 1718 (2006) through the designation of entities and goods, and directs the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1718 (2006) to undertake its tasks to this effect and to report to the Security Council by 24 April 2009, and further agrees that, if the Committee has not acted, then the Security Council will complete action to adjust the measures by 30 April 2009.
The Security Council supports the Six Party Talks, calls for their early resumption, and urges all the participants to intensify their efforts on the full implementation of the 19 September 2005 Joint Statement issued by China, the DPRK, Japan, Republic of Korea, the Russian Federation and the United States and their subsequent consensus documents, with a view to achieving the verifiable denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula in a peaceful manner and to maintaining peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula and in northeast Asia.
The Security Council expresses its desire for a peaceful and diplomatic solution to the situation and welcomes efforts by Council members as well as other Member States to facilitate a peaceful and comprehensive solution through dialogue.
The Security Council will remain actively seized of the matter. (Editing by Eric Walsh)

　下線を引いた文章のなかで、太字でイタリックの箇所が議論の的となったことが伝わっています。
　アメリカ、日本などの立場は、議長声明とは異なり（以下のように）もっと断定的なものです。

The United States, Japan and South Korea have repeatedly said that North Korea on April 5 launched a long-range ballistic missile, not a satellite as it insists, in violation of Security Council resolution 1718 banning such launches.

　ミサイル（a long-range ballistic missille）か衛星（satellite）かという発射物の認識が一致しないために、結局「発射」（launch）となったことは、文面を見ればわかります。
　私にとって微妙だったのは、日本語では「違反」と訳されている二つの単語の違いです。
　手元にあるのは、LONGMANのDictionary of Contemporary English。これで、violatiionとcontraventionを調べることにしました。

contravention = when someone does something that is not allowed by a law or rule

violation = an action that breads a law, agreement, principle etc.

　結局は、ニュワンスの違いだと思いました。法によて認められないことをするのと、法を破るのも、本質的な違いではありません。
　しかし、そこは外交。北朝鮮に発信するメッセージとしては、大事な違いなのでしょう。
　当初から、アメリカ政府と日本政府と一体化して、「ミサイル」とばかり報道する日本のマスコミに疑問をもったので、原文にあたる気になりました。