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STORY: UN / NON PROLIFERATION
TRT: 02:35
SOURCE: UNIFEED
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / RUSSIAN / NATS
DATELINE: 21 SEPTEMBER 2017, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
1. Wide shot, exterior UN Headquarters
2. Pan right, Security Council vote
3. Med shot, delegates
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Rex Tillerson, Secretary of State, United States:
“Though North Korea may assume that nuclear weapons will ensure the survival of its regime, in truth, nuclear weapons are clearly only leading to greater isolation, ignominy, and deprivation. Continued threats against us, against us the US, and now the entire global community, will not create safety for the regime but would rather stiffen our collective resolve and our commitment to deterring North Korean aggression.”
5. Med shot, Republic of Korea’s representative
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Rex Tillerson, Secretary of State, United States:
“There are also lessons here for Iran, which was on its own path to develop nuclear weapons, in violation of its non-proliferation treaty and nuclear safeguards obligations, and multiple legally-binding UN Security Council resolutions. Iran seems keen to preserve for itself the option to resume such work in the future, even while sponsoring international terrorism, developing missile systems capabilities for delivering nuclear weapons, and destabilising its neighbours in their dangerous quest of regional hegemony.”
7. Wide shot, delegates
8. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Vassily Alekseevich Nebenzia, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Russian Federation:
“What the use of non-proliferation mechanisms to exert pressure on unpopular regimes has led to, is well known. The fate of Saddam Hussein who as is well known had no weapons of mass destruction, although he was accused of possessing them, Muammar Gaddafi, who had voluntarily renounced the development of his own, all serve as a trigger for accelerated development by some states of the weapons of mass destruction programmes. This doesn’t in any way, of course, justify the DPRK’s missile and nuclear programme, but to ignore the reasons for them is to be very short sighted.”
9. Wide shot, delegates
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Kang Kyung-wha, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Korea:
“North Korea must be stopped. North Korea must be made to understand that continued provocations will only deepen its diplomatic isolation and intensify the economic pressure that will lead the regime to ruin. Denuclearization is the only path to a secure and stable future for the North.”
11. Wide shot, Council
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson of the United States today (21 Sep) told the Security Council that while North Korea “may assume that nuclear weapons will ensure the survival of its regime, in truth, nuclear weapons are clearly only leading to greater isolation, ignominy, and deprivation.”
Addressing a Council Ministerial Meeting on the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction, Tillerson said “continued threats against us, against us the US, and now the entire global community, will not create safety for the regime but would rather stiffen our collective resolve and our commitment to deterring North Korean aggression.”
The US official said there were “also lessons here for Iran, which was on its own path to develop nuclear weapons, in violation of its non-proliferation treaty and nuclear safeguards obligations, and multiple legally-binding UN Security Council resolutions.”
Iran, he said, “seems keen to preserve for itself the option to resume such work in the future, even while sponsoring international terrorism, developing missile systems capabilities for delivering nuclear weapons, and destabilising its neighbours in their dangerous quest of regional hegemony.”
For his part, Russian Ambassador Vassily Alekseevich Nebenzia spoke about the use of non-proliferation mechanisms “to exert pressure on unpopular regimes.”
Nebenzia said “the fate of Saddam Hussein who as is well known had no weapons of mass destruction, although he was accused of possessing them. Muammar Gaddafi, who had voluntarily renounced the development of his own, all serve as a trigger for accelerated development by some states of the weapons of mass destruction programmes.”
This, he said, “doesn’t in any way, of course, justify the DPRK’s missile and nuclear programme, but to ignore the reasons for them is to be very short sighted.”
Also addressing the meeting, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea, Kang Kyung-wha, said “North Korea must be stopped. North Korea must be made to understand that continued provocations will only deepen its diplomatic isolation and intensify the economic pressure that will lead the regime to ruin. Denuclearization is the only path to a secure and stable future for the North.”
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