North Korea has also stockpiled chemical weapons and has continued developing its missiles, though it has honored its pledge to American negotiators last year that it would not test them, the report says.
The report said North Korea had stockpiled chemical weapons and continued to develop short- and long-range missiles, though it had honored its pledge to American negotiators last year that it would not flight-test them.
North Korea has honored its pledge not to test-fire its missiles and even renewed that pledge early this year, but intelligence analysts say they still detect work at that site, as well as other types of testing.
Even so, he also called on China to honor its pledges to improve human rights and to give foreign journalists unfettered access to all parts of the country.
Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is scheduled to meet Thursday with the European Commission president, José Manuel Barroso, and is expected to press the commission to honor its pledges to adopt measures intended to stimulate growth.
The testimony -- some will be given in public, the rest in a closed briefing -- pitted officials who wanted a much tougher critique of Syria against those who wished to encourage Syria to honor its pledges.
Although the United States spent more than $1 billion in humanitarian aid to Haiti after the earthquake, it has been slow to honor its pledge to the recovery fund as well as its overall promise of $1.15 billion in reconstruction money.
Amid the budget struggles in Washington, it remains to be seen whether the United States will fully honor its pledge.
This is theoretically true but highly unlikely in practice if the administration honors its pledge to protect sensitive waters, wildlife and native fishing grounds in Alaska.
Standing on a stage outside a school in one community, La Carmelita, Mr. Alzate told several hundred farmers that the government planned to honor its pledge.
