UN / WEAPONS MASS DESTRUCTION

Addressing a Security Council debate on the non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today said it was “particularly disappointing that progress on eliminating nuclear weapons has descended into fractious deadlock.” UNIFEED-UNTV

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:15
• Production Date: 23 August 2016
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: BAN KI-MOON
• Corporate Name: SECURITY COUNCIL
• Subject Topical: WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION
• MAMS Id: 1695766
• Parent Id: 1695766
• Alternate Title: unifeed160823a

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STORY: UN / WEAPONS MASS DESTRUCTION
TRT: 2:15
SOURCE: UNIFEED-UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 23 AUGUST 2016, NEW YORK CITY / RECENT

Shotlist

RECENT – NEW YORK CITY

1. Exterior, United Nations Headquarters

23 AUGUST 2016, NEW YORK CITY

2. Various shots, Security Council meeting room
3. Med shot, delegates
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“It is therefore particularly disappointing that progress on eliminating nuclear weapons has descended into fractious deadlock. We see the reappearance of some of the discredited arguments that were used to justify nuclear weapons during the Cold War. Those arguments were morally, politically and practically wrong thirty years ago, and they are wrong now.”
5. Med shot, delegates
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“The global strategic context is more fluid and dangerous than ever. Technological advances have made means of production and methods of delivery for chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear materials cheaper, easier and more accessible. Vicious non-state actors that target civilians for carnage are actively seeking chemical, biological and nuclear weapons.”
7. Wide shot, Security Council members
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Emmanuel Roux, Special Representative of INTERPOL to the United Nations:
“We received a concrete indicator of this, when a DAESH laptop, owned by a Tunisian chemistry and physics student, was seized in Syria in August 2014. It contained a 19-page document on how to develop biological weapons, including bubonic plague, and also included instructions on how to test the weapons on mice.”
9. Med shot, delegates
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Emmanuel Roux, Special Representative of INTERPOL to the United Nations:
“The incident led to the evacuation of two nuclear power stations and the reinforcement of security at all others. Officials feared DAESH was working to breach Belgium's nuclear security and would launch a dirty bomb to follow the Brussels airport bombing.”
11. Wide shot, Security Council members and attendants

Storyline

Addressing a Security Council debate on the non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today (23 Aug) said it was “particularly disappointing that progress on eliminating nuclear weapons has descended into fractious deadlock.”

Ban added that the reappearance of some of the discredited arguments that were used to justify nuclear weapons during the Cold War were “morally, politically and practically wrong thirty years ago, and they are wrong now.”

He stressed that challenges to the disarmament and non-proliferation architecture were growing, adding that the global strategic context was more “fluid and dangerous than ever.”

Ban said “technological advances have made means of production and methods of delivery for chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear materials cheaper, easier and more accessible. Vicious non-state actors that target civilians for carnage are actively seeking chemical, biological and nuclear weapons.”

He called on all states to focus on what he called one overriding truth: the only way to prevent the human, environmental and existential destruction these weapons can cause is by eradicating them once and for all.

Also addressing the Security Council, INTERPOL’s Emmanuel Roux noted that the increasing cross-border movement of foreign terrorist fighters was allowing terrorist organizations to reach out to a wider range of recruits in a targeted fashion, giving them access to advanced chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) expertise.

He said “we received a concrete indicator of this, when a DAESH laptop, owned by a Tunisian chemistry and physics student, was seized in Syria in August 2014. It contained a 19-page document on how to develop biological weapons, including bubonic plague, and also included instructions on how to test the weapons on mice.”

Referring to the Brussels attacks of March 2016, Roux pointed out that Belgian officials discovered DAESH operatives had been secretly videotaping one of the country’s senior nuclear scientist.

He said “the incident led to the evacuation of two nuclear power stations and the reinforcement of security at all others. Officials feared DAESH was working to breach Belgium's nuclear security and would launch a dirty bomb to follow the Brussels airport bombing.”