UN / IRAN SANCTIONS

UK Ambassador Michael Tatham told the Security Council that E3 +3 negotiations with Iran over its nuclear programme have reached a “critical point” and said it was “crucial that Iran understands it must address the concerns of the international community for a deal to be possible and for sanctions to be lifted.” UNIFEED-UNTV

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Production Date: 25 June 2014
• Asset Language: Original
• Subject Topical: PEACE AND SECURITY; DISARMAMENT
• Geographic Subject: IRAN
• MAMS Id: 1127329

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STORY: UN / IRAN SANCTIONS
TRT: 1.07
SOURCE: UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 25 JUNE 2014, NEW YORK CITY / FILE

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FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters

25 JUNE 2014, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. Med shot, delegates
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Gary Quinlan, Permanent Representative of Australia to the United Nations:
“The committee received a report from a member state during the current reporting period; we received this on 31 March, of the interdiction on the Red Sea by its naval forces of a cargo of conventional arms, including rockets, mortars and ammunition, which were allegedly loaded onto a vessel in the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas.”
5. Wide shot, Council
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Tatham, Political Counsellor at the Permanent Mission of the United Kingdom to the UN:
“The E3 +3 and Iran have reached a critical point in the negotiations on a comprehensive agreement on Iran’s nuclear programme. With less than a month to go before the interim deal is due to expire on 20 July, it is crucial that Iran understands it must address the concerns of the international community for a deal to be possible and for sanctions imposed as a result of Iran’s nuclear programme to be lifted.”
7. Med shot, delegates
8. Wide shot, Security Council

Storyline

The Chair of the Security Council Sanctions Committee on Iran said today (25 June) that the Committee had received a report from a member state of a cargo of conventional arms, intercepted in the Red Sea, “allegedly loaded onto a vessel in the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas.”

Ambassador Gary Quinlan of Australia, Chair of the Committee, told the Council that the cargo allegedly included “rockets, mortars and ammunition.” He said the Committee was currently analyzing the evidence.

Also addressing the Council, Ambassador Michael Tatham of the United Kingdom said that the E3 + 3 and Iran “have reached a critical point in the negotiations on a comprehensive agreement on Iran’s nuclear programme.”

Tatham said that with less than a month to go before the interim deal is due to expire on 20 July, it was “crucial that Iran understands it must address the concerns of the international community for a deal to be possible and for sanctions imposed as a result of Iran’s nuclear programme to be lifted.”

The Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006) was established on 23 December 2006 to undertake the tasks set out in paragraph 18 of that same resolution. The mandate of the Committee has since been expanded to apply also to the measures imposed in resolutions 1747 (2007) and 1803 (2008) and to the measures decided in resolution 1929 (2010).

Sanctions include a ban on the export/procurement of any arms and related materiel from Iran and a ban on the supply of the seven categories, as specified, of conventional weapons and related materiel to Iran.