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DATELINE: 11 OCOTBER 2024, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior, United Nations Headquarters
11 OCOTBER 2024, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, press briefing room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“The Secretary-General warmly congratulate the grassroots Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo on being awarded the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize. The atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, also known as the hibakusha, are selfless, soul-bearing witnesses of the horrific human cost of nuclear weapons. While their numbers grow smaller each year, the relentless work and resilience of the hibakusha are the backbone of the global nuclear disarmament movement.”
4. Wide shot, press briefing room
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“In a statement, the Secretary-General said he will never forget my many meetings with them over the years. Their haunting living testimony reminds the world that the nuclear threat is not confined to history books. Nuclear weapons remain a clear and present danger to humanity, once again appearing in the daily rhetoric of international relations. It is time for world leaders to be as clear-eyed as the hibakusha, and see nuclear weapons for what they are: devices of death that offer no safety, protection, or security. The only way to eliminate the threat of nuclear weapons is to eliminate them altogether. The United Nations proudly stands with the hibakusha. They are an inspiration to our shared efforts to build a world free of nuclear weapons.”
6. Wide shot, press briefing room
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Izumi Nakamitsu, Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for Disarmament Affairs:
“This morning, I would like to really, not just warmly congratulate them, but also I would like to again repeat my sincere thanks, and then also on behalf of the United Nations, our sincere gratitude for their tireless work in support of nuclear disarmament. We do receive incredible amounts of inspiration and also courage and energy, I would say, from their movements and from those individual hibakusha, they are incredible people.”
8. Wide shot, press briefing room
UN top officials warmly congratulated the grassroots Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo on being awarded the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize.
Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesperson today (11 Oct) delivered a statement by the Secretary-General.
In his statement, Guterres said that “the atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, also known as the hibakusha, are selfless, soul-bearing witnesses of the horrific human cost of nuclear weapons.”
“While their numbers grow smaller each year, the relentless work and resilience of the hibakusha are the backbone of the global nuclear disarmament movement,” the statement said.
The Deputy Spokesperson also said that Guterres reiterated, “nuclear weapons remain a clear and present danger to humanity, once again appearing in the daily rhetoric of international relations.”
“It is time for world leaders to be as clear-eyed as the hibakusha, and see nuclear weapons for what they are: devices of death that offer no safety, protection, or security,” the UN chief highlighted.
The Secretary-General concluded, “The only way to eliminate the threat of nuclear weapons is to eliminate them altogether. The United Nations proudly stands with the hibakusha. They are an inspiration to our shared efforts to build a world free of nuclear weapons.”
Later in a press briefing, Izumi Nakamitsu, Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for Disarmament Affairs also spoke to reporters.
She warmly congratulated Nihon Hidankyo and repeated her and the Organization’s “sincere gratitude for their tireless work in support of nuclear disarmament.”
“We do receive incredible amounts of inspiration and also courage and energy, I would say, from their movements and from those individual hibakusha, they are incredible people,” Nakamitsu said.
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