UN / TERRORISM WMD

Ahead of a review of Security Council Resolution 1540, Ambassador Román Oyarzun Marchesi of Spain, said “there is a grave risk of proliferation of weapons of mass destruction to non-state actors,” pointing out that without the resolution “we would be facing a world much less safer than the one that we have now.” UNIFEED-UNTV

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:43
• Production Date: 17 June 2016
• Asset Language: English
• Corporate Name: SECURITY COUNCIL
• Subject Topical: TERRORISM; WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION
• Geographic Subject: SPAIN
• MAMS Id: 1648829
• Parent Id: 1648829
• Alternate Title: unifeed160617b

Description

STORY: UN / TERRORISM WMD
TRT: 01:43
SOURCE: UNIFEED - UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 17 JUNE 2016, NEW YORK CITY / FILE

Shotlist

FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, United Nations headquarters

17 JUNE 2016, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, presser
3. Med shot, journalists
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Román Oyarzun Marchesi, Permanent Representative of Spain to the United Nations:
“Terrorism is not only increasing but most importantly reshaping itself through the use of new technologies. There is a grave risk of proliferation of weapons of mass destruction to non-state actors, and there is a pressing need to tackle it.”
5. Med shot, journalists
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Román Oyarzun Marchesi, Permanent Representative of Spain to the United Nations:
“Think about the UN without 1540. It would be a real problem and we would be facing a world much less safer than the one that we have now.”
7. Med shot, journalist
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Román Oyarzun Marchesi, Permanent Representative of Spain to the United Nations:
“The goal is to receive inputs from member states, international organizations and civil society for the ongoing review of resolution 1540.”
9. Med shot, journalists
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Román Oyarzun Marchesi, Permanent Representative of Spain to the United Nations:
“These consultations that we will have next week, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, will allow us, will allow the committee, will allow the member states of the Security Council, to receive views, not only from member states but also from international organizations, academia and civil society. And the result of the whole process will be ideally a resolution to be adopted in December in which we will ideally have a new and stronger mechanism to prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.”
11. Med shot, journalists
12. Wide shot, end of presser

Storyline

Ahead of the upcoming review of Security Council Resolution 1540, Ambassador Román Oyarzun Marchesi of Spain, said “there is a grave risk of proliferation of weapons of mass destruction to non-state actors,” pointing out that without the resolution “we would be facing a world much less safer than the one that we have now.”

The goal of the review, Oyarzun said, will be “to receive inputs from member states, international organizations and civil society for the ongoing review of resolution 1540.

The consultations, which will take place next week, will “ideally” lead to “a resolution to be adopted in December in which we will ideally have a new and stronger mechanism to prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.”

Resolution 1540 was adopted by the Security Council on 28 April 2004. It affirms that the proliferation of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons and their means of delivery constitute a threat to international peace and security.

The resolution obliges states, inter alia, to refrain from supporting by any means non-state actors from developing, acquiring, manufacturing, possessing, transporting, transferring or using nuclear, chemical or biological weapons and their delivery systems.