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DATELINE: 10 DECEMBER 2015, UNITED NATIONS / RECENT, NEW YORK CITY, NY, USA
RECENT, NEW YORK CITY, NY, USA
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations Headquarters
10 DECEMBER 2015, UNITED NATIONS
2. Wide shot, Security Council session on the situation in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in progress
3. Med shot, Security Council session in progress
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Jeffrey Feltman, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs:
“We are concerned by the report that the DPRK conducted a further submarine-launched ballistic missile test on 28 November. The Security Council has repeatedly demanded through relevant resolutions that further launches using ballistic missiles be ceased, and obligations be met for the verifiable denuclearization. Although each challenge has different context, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) with Iran shows that diplomacy can work to address non-proliferation challenges.”
5. Med shot, Security Council session in progress
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights:
“Once again this year, the General Assembly is calling on the Security Council to take action by referring the situation in DPRK to the International Criminal Court, which I believe to be essential, given the scale and extreme gravity of the allegations.”
7. Med shot, Security Council session in progress
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights:
“Addressing the chronic human rights situation in the DPRK is urgent and long overdue.”
9. Wide shot, Security Council session in progress
10. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Wang Min, Deputy Permanent Representative of China to the United Nations:
“China has already expressed its position against discussion of the human rights situation in DPRK at the Security Council. China has always opposed to the Security Council’s intervention in issues concerning our countries’ human rights. The Security Council is not the place to address human rights, nor should it politicise the issue.”
11. Wide shot, Security Council in progress
12. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Wang Min, Deputy Permanent Representative of China to the United Nations:
“Currently, the situation on the Korean Peninsula remains complicated and delicate. Maintaining peace and stability on the Peninsula, realising the goal of the denuclearization on the Peninsula and resolving relevant issue through dialogue and consultation, is in the common interest of all relevant parties. China calls on all relevant parties to bear in mind the big picture and make more efforts to escalate the tensions on the Peninsula as to further dialogue and mutual trust rather than the contrary.”
13. Wide shot, Security Council in progress
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Samantha Power, Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations, and President of the Security Council for the month of December:
“I would like to address those who believe that what is happening in the DPRK is not a threat to peace and security. I would like to ask whether those countries think that systematic torture, forced starvation and crimes against humanity are stabilizing or good for international peace and security.
I assume they don’t think that. So could this level of horror be seen as neutral? A level of horror unrivalled elsewhere in the world? Is it neutral, have no effect at all on regional and international peace and security, really? None? It stretches credulity and it sounds more like cynicism.”
15. Wide shot, closing of Security Council session
The UN Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs expressed concern today (10 Nov) over reports of North Korea’s ballistic missile test on 28 November.
Addressing Security Council members, Jeffrey Feltman said the Council had “repeatedly demanded through relevant resolutions that further launches using ballistic missiles be ceased, and obligations be met for the verifiable denuclearization.”
He also said the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) with Iran, showed that “diplomacy can work to address non-proliferation challenges.”
Feltman made the comments during a Security Council meeting, convened to discuss the human rights situation in North Korea.
Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, spoke at length about the human rights violations in the country, such as the abduction of foreign nationals, enforced disappearances, trafficking, food insecurity, gender-based violence and discrimination, which he said posed a threat to international peace and security.
Al Hussein said it was “essential” that the situation in DPRK be referred to the International Criminal Court, “given the scale and extreme gravity of the allegations.”
He also said, “addressing the chronic human rights situation in the DPRK is urgent and long overdue.”
In his remarks, Wang Min, Deputy Permanent Representative of China to the United Nations, said his country objected to “discussions of the human rights situation in DPRK at the Security Council.”
The Deputy Ambassador said he believed the Security Council was “not the place to address human rights, nor should it politicise the issue,” adding that resolving “relevant issues” in the Peninsula needed to be carried out through “dialogue and mutual trust rather than the contrary.”
Samantha Power, Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations, and President of the Security Council for the month of December, asked whether some UN member states believed human rights violations, such as systematic torture, forced starvation and crimes against humanity were “stabilizing or good for international peace and security.”
“I assume they don’t think that. So could this level of horror be seen as neutral? A level of horror unrivalled elsewhere in the world? Is it neutral, have no effect at all on regional and international peace and security, really? None? It stretches credulity and it sounds more like cynicism,” Power said.
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