China’s Ministry of Commerce is implementing the recent United Nation sanctions covering resource trade with North Korea, it announced via an online statement on Tuesday.

The announcement comes just days after Chinese President Xi Jinping met with U.S. President Barack Obama at the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, D.C., where both countries discussed recent sanctions against the DPRK.

“Both leaders affirmed their commitment to achieving the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and the full implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 2270,” the White House was quoted as saying.

The UN Security Council unanimously passed Resolution 2270 on March 2 in response