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DATELINE: 6 JULY 2023, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, UN Headquarters
6 JULY 2023, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. Close up, SC President
4. Pan right, voting procedure to extend invitation to Ukraine to participate in the meeting
5. Pan left, voting procedure to extend invitation to Ukraine to participate in the meeting
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Rosemary DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs:
“Diplomacy is the only way to effectively address the Iranian nuclear issue. It is essential that all parties renew the dialogue as quickly as possible and reach an agreement on the outstanding issues. In this context, I reiterate the Secretary-General’s appeal to the United States to lift or waive its sanctions as outlined in the Plan and to extend waivers with regard to the trade in oil with the Islamic Republic of Iran.”
7. Wide shot, Security Council
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Rosemary DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs:
“In its report of May 2023, the IAEA reported that, in line with this joint statement, it had installed surveillance cameras at workshops where centrifuge parts are manufactured. The Agency added that it had no further questions regarding the presence of high enriched uranium detected at one location. This encouraging step notwithstanding, we are alarmed that the Agency remains unable to verify the stockpile of enriched uranium in the country. It estimates that Iran now has a total enriched uranium stockpile of more than twenty times the allowable amount under the (JCPOA). This includes increased quantities of uranium enriched to 20 percent and 60 percent. Such a stockpile of enriched uranium is of serious concern.”
9. Med shot, Security Council
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Rosemary DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs:
“In the reporting period, we received information from the United Kingdom about ballistic missile parts seized by the British Royal Navy in February 2023, in international waters in the Gulf of Iran. The United Kingdom shared imagery of the seized components and its analysis that the components were of Iranian origin and transferred in a manner inconsistent with resolution 2231.”
11. Med shot, Security Council
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Rosemary DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs:
“We also received letters from Ukraine, France, Germany and the United Kingdom concerning alleged transfers of unmanned aerial vehicles, from Iran to the Russian Federation, in a manner inconsistent with paragraph 4 of annex B. The United Kingdom and Ukraine also provided photographs and their analyses of the UAVs recovered in Ukraine. The two countries assessed the devices to be of Iranian types Shahed-131, Shahed-136 and Mohajer-6, and that they had been transferred by the Islamic Republic of Iran in a manner inconsistent with resolution 2231.”
13. Med shot, Olof Skoog
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Olof Skoog, Head of the Delegation of the European Union, Coordinator of the JCPOA Joint Commission:
“We keep call on Iran to further progress in the implementation of the Joint statement, including on cooperation with IAEA and to refrain from any more steps away from its JCPOA commitments as a first and minimum measure.”
15. Close up, representative of Iran
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert A. Wood, Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Alternate Representative for Special Political Affairs, United States:
“United States remains gravely concerned with Russia's use of Iranian drone against Ukrainian cities and civilian infrastructure in its unprovoked war against Ukraine. Both Iran and Russia have violated their obligations on the UN Security Council resolution 2231 by participating in these transfers without obtaining advanced approval from the UN Security Council.”
17. Wide shot, Security Council
18. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Vasily Nebenzya, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Russia:
“Nobody, including the leadership of the UN Secretariat has any illusions about who specifically bears responsibility for the undermining of the resolution. It is difficult to disregard the fact that all steps taken by Tehran are no more than a reaction to the actions of the US.”
19. Med shot, Security Council
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Sergiy Kyslytsya, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ukraine:
“In September 2022 the Russian Federation has massively used the Iranian unmanned aerial vehicles of the Shahed-131, Shahed-136 and Mohajer-6 types in its full scaled war of aggression against Ukraine.”
21. Wide shot, Security Council
22. SOUNDBITE (English) Amir Saeid Iravani, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Islamic Republic of Iran:
“The report has once again failed to address the root causes of the current situation of the JCPOA, namely, the US withdrawal there from.”
23. Pan left, representatives walk in the SC stakeout
24. SOUNDBITE (English) Nicolas de Rivière, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, France:
“In light of such repeated violations, we encourage the Secretary-General to instruct the UN Secretariat to examine and report on the ample evidence of Iran transferring weapons, materials, equipment, goods and technology or related services controlled by the UN Security Council Resolution 2231 as it has done so on several occasions in the past.”
25. Pan right, representatives walk out the SC stakeout
Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs Rosemary DiCarlo told the Security Council that diplomacy is the only way to effectively address the Iranian nuclear issue and “It is essential that all parties renew the dialogue.”
The chief of UN political affairs today (6 July) briefed the Security Council on the situation in Iran. Adopting the agenda of the meeting, the Security Council voted to extend invitation to Ukraine to participate in the briefing.
DiCarlo reiterated the Secretary-General’s appeal to the United States “to lift or waive its sanctions as outlined in the Plan and to extend waivers with regard to the trade in oil with the Islamic Republic of Iran.”
She also said, “In its report of May 2023, the IAEA reported that, in line with this joint statement, it had installed surveillance cameras at workshops where centrifuge parts are manufactured. The Agency added that it had no further questions regarding the presence of high enriched uranium detected at one location.”
DiCarlo continued, “This encouraging step notwithstanding, we are alarmed that the Agency remains unable to verify the stockpile of enriched uranium in the country.”
According to her, “It estimates that Iran now has a total enriched uranium stockpile of more than twenty times the allowable amount under the (JCPOA). This includes increased quantities of uranium enriched to 20 percent and 60 percent.”
She added, “Such a stockpile of enriched uranium is of serious concern.”
The Under-Secretary-General also noted, “In the reporting period, we received information from the United Kingdom about ballistic missile parts seized by the British Royal Navy in February 2023, in international waters in the Gulf of Iran.”
She continued, “The United Kingdom shared imagery of the seized components and its analysis that the components were of Iranian origin and transferred in a manner inconsistent with resolution 2231.”
The chief of UN political affairs also said, “We also received letters from Ukraine, France, Germany and the United Kingdom concerning alleged transfers of unmanned aerial vehicles, from Iran to the Russian Federation, in a manner inconsistent with paragraph 4 of annex B.”
She added, “The United Kingdom and Ukraine also provided photographs and their analyses of the UAVs recovered in Ukraine. The two countries assessed the devices to be of Iranian types Shahed-131, Shahed-136 and Mohajer-6, and that they had been transferred by the Islamic Republic of Iran in a manner inconsistent with resolution 2231.”
Also briefing the Security Council, Olof Skoog, Head of the Delegation of the European Union and Coordinator of the JCPOA Joint Commission, stated, “We keep call on Iran to further progress in the implementation of the Joint statement, including on cooperation with IAEA and to refrain from any more steps away from its JCPOA commitments as a first and minimum measure.”
United States representative Robert A. Wood said, “United States remains gravely concerned with Russia's use of Iranian drone against Ukrainian cities and civilian infrastructure in its unprovoked war against Ukraine.”
He noted, “Both Iran and Russia have violated their obligations on the UN Security Council resolution 2231 by participating in these transfers without obtaining advanced approval from the UN Security Council.”
Russian Ambassador Vasily Nebenzya told the Council that “Nobody, including the leadership of the UN Secretariat has any illusions about who specifically bears responsibility for the undermining of the resolution.”
He continued, “It is difficult to disregard the fact that all steps taken by Tehran are no more than a reaction to the actions of the US.”
For his part, Ukraine’s Ambassador Sergiy Kyslytsya, said, “In September 2022 the Russian Federation has massively used the Iranian unmanned aerial vehicles of the Shahed-131, Shahed-136 and Mohajer-6 types in its full scaled war of aggression against Ukraine.”
Amir Saeid Iravani, the Iranian Permanent Representative, said, “The report has once again failed to address the root causes of the current situation of the JCPOA, namely, the US withdrawal there from.”
After the meeting, the UK, France and Germany delivered a joint statement to media. French Ambassador Nicolas de Rivière said, “In light of such repeated violations, we encourage the Secretary-General to instruct the UN Secretariat to examine and report on the ample evidence of Iran transferring weapons, materials, equipment, goods and technology or related services controlled by the UN Security Council Resolution 2231 as it has done so on several occasions in the past.”
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