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STORY: UN / DPRK SANCTIONS
TRT: 02:27
SOURCE: UNIFEED-UNTV
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 25 FEBRUARY 2016, NEW YORK CITY / RECENT
RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior, UN headquarters
25 FEBRUARY 2016, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, US ambassador Samantha Power approaching microphone
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Samantha Power, Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations:
“These sanctions, if adopted, would send an unambiguous and unyielding message to the DPRK regime. The world will not accept your proliferation.”
4. Wide shot, Power at the podium
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Samantha Power, Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations:
“If adopted and implemented fully, these sanctions would constitute a major increase in pressure, compared to the Council’s previous actions on DPRK. They have broader scope and target more of the DPRK’s pressure points.”
6. Wide shot, Power at the podium
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Samantha Power, Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations:
“This resolution is careful not to punish the North Korean people. The North Korean people have suffered so much already under one of the most brutal regimes the world has ever known. Rather, this resolution focuses on a ruling elite that have inflicted so much of that suffering, always privileging the nuclear and ballistic programmes over the welfare of the North Korean people.”
8. Wide shot, Power at the podium
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Samantha Power, Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations:
“We remain clear eyed about the prospects of an immediate change in DPRK’s behavior, but we have seen how robust sanctions can alter a government’s dangerous nuclear ambition in other contexts. The time to use this tool with the DPRK is now and we look forward to working with the Council to put in place comprehensive, robust, and unprecedented sanctions against the DPRK regime.”
10. Wide shot, Japanese ambassador Motohide Yoshikawa approaching microphone
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Motohide Yoshikawa, Permanent Representative of Japan to the United Nations:
“I find the text circulated by the United States as necessary, the meat, robustness which we need and we hope that the decision to adopt it will be done as swiftly as possible.”
12. Wide shot, Yoshikawa at the podium
The US Ambassador to the United Nations said that tougher sanctions against North Korea if adopted “would send an unambiguous and unyielding message to the DPRK regime.”
Speaking to reporters Thursday (25 Feb) outside the Security Council following a meeting on drafting text for a new resolution against that country, she said the draft resolution “is careful not to punish the North Korean people” as they “have suffered so much already under one of the most brutal regimes the world has ever known.”
Rather, she said it “focuses on a ruling elite that have inflicted so much of that suffering, always privileging the nuclear and ballistic programmes over the welfare of the North Korean people.”
Some of the provisions of the resolution include mandatory inspection of North Korean ships, and further restrictions of access to the international financial.
Power said “the time to use this tool with the DPRK is now and we look forward to working with the Council to put in place comprehensive, robust, and unprecedented sanctions against the DPRK regime.”
Japanese Ambassador Motohide Yoshikawa said this resolution has the “necessary robustness” needed and expressed hope that the decision to adopt this will be done “as swiftly as possible.”
Nearly two months ago, North Korea carried out its fourth nuclear test and earlier this month tested a long-range missile, both were in violation of resolutions barring the country from developing nuclear weapons.
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