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STORY: UN / NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT
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SOURCE: UNIFEED-UNTV
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 26 SEPTEMBER 2014, NEW YORK CITY / RECENT
RECENT – NEW YORK CITY
1. Pan to right, exterior, United Nations Headquarters
26 SEPTEMBER 2014, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, conference room
3. Wide shot, US Secretary of State John Kerry, UN Secretary-General, foreign ministers and delegates
4. Pan to left, US Secretary of State John Kerry, Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida, UN Secretary-General Bank Ki-moon, ministers and delegates
5. Med shot, US Secretary of State John Kerry speaking with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
6. Wide shot, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida, and senior officials at the podium
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Fumio Kishida, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan:
“Next year we’ll commemorate the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. As foreign minister of the only country that has ever experienced atomic bombings in war, as well as a person from Hiroshima, I am determined to lead the promotion of nuclear disarmament.”
8. Wide shot, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida, and senior officials at the podium
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations:
“I made them some joke. My name is Ban, b-a-n, spelled ‘ban,’ but this can be read “ban,” so I told delegations that I will not ban constructive discussions in the committee meetings but I will ban the nuclear test.”
10. Wide shot, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida, and senior officials at the podium
11. SOUNDBITE (English) John Kerry, Secretary of State of the United States:
“This treaty is about diminishing our reliance in nuclear weapons; it’s about reducing dangerous competition among nuclear powers; it’s about responsible disarmament and, ultimately, it’s about advancing international peace and security by building a different structure on which we can all rely. I also want to be clear on what this treaty isn’t. This treaty isn’t just to feel good exercise. It’s in all of our national security interests and it’s verifiable. In fact, its verification regime is one of the great accomplishments of the modern world.
12. Wide shot, conference room
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Javad Zarif, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Iran:
“As long as nuclear weapons exist, the risk of their use, threat of use and proliferation persists. Any use of nuclear weapons is a violation of the UN Charter and a crime against humanity. It is an established fact that any use of nuclear weapons would produce catastrophic humanitarian consequences. The only absolute guarantee against the use of nuclear weapons is their total elimination.”
14. Wide shot, conference room
On the international day for nuclear disarmament, US Secretary of State John Kerry stated the US President’s commitment to ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT).
Speaking at the seventh ministerial meeting of the CTBT today (26 Sep) at United Nations (UN) Headquarters, Kerry noted that the Treaty is a commitment to improve international peace and security.
He said that it is about diminishing the “reliance” of the international community in nuclear weapons. “It’s about reducing dangerous competition among nuclear powers; it’s about responsible disarmament and, ultimately, it’s about advancing international peace and security by building a different structure on which we can all rely.”
The Treaty bans all nuclear tests, constrains the development and proliferation of nuclear weapons, and contributes to progress on nuclear disarmament.
The US Secretary of State said that “this treaty isn’t just to feel good exercise. It’s in all of our national security interests and it’s verifiable.”
He noted that the CTBT verification regime is “one of the great accomplishments of the modern world.”
He urged world leaders to “change” the way of dealing with conflicts.
Kerry stressed the need to “strip the world” of nuclear weapons and said that there is “no question” that every step taken towards denuclearization makes the world “a safer place.”
The US Secretary said that the CTBT sets standards and “enforces the verification measures the US has in place.”
Chairing the meeting, the Foreign Minister of Japan Fumio Kishida noted that the Treaty is making “steady progress towards universalization.” However, he said that, up to date, it has “yet to come into force.”
Recalling the bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Kishida said that in 2015 Japan will commemorate the 70th anniversary of the nuclear explosions.
He said that “as a foreign minister of the only country that has ever experienced atomic bombings in war – as well as a person from Hiroshima –, I am determined to lead the promotion of nuclear disarmament.”
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged all countries that have not ratified the Treaty, to do so. He noted that such an action would protect the world from the harmful radioactive effects of nuclear tests.
Recalling his participation as a chair of a CTBT committee in Austria, he explained how he used his name to make a “joke” to the participants.
“I made them some joke. My name is Ban, b-a-n, spelled ‘ban,’ but this can be read “ban,” so I told delegations that I will not ban constructive discussions in the committee meetings but I will ban the nuclear test.”
He noted the impact that nuclear testing could have on civilians and their immediate habitats and the “injustice” of exposing them to “harmful radiation.”
Speaking earlier on the day on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif pointed at the “risk” of use or “threat of use” of nuclear weapons and said that it persists “as long as nuclear weapons exist.”
He recalled that the use of nuclear weapons is a “violation of the UN Charter and a crime against humanity.”
The Iranian Minister stressed that any use of nuclear weapons “would produce catastrophic humanitarian consequences” and said that the only absolute guarantee against the use of nuclear weapons is “their total elimination.”
Out of a total listed number of 195 States, 183 have signed the CTBT and 163 have ratified it. For the treaty to enter into force, ratification is required from the Annex 2 States. Of these, China, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Egypt, India, Iran, Israel, Pakistan and the United States have yet to ratify it.
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