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STORY: UN / DPRK
TRT: 1.27
SOURCE: UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 16 APRIL 2007 , NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior, United Nations headquarters
2. Wide shot, Ambassador Marcello Spatafora approaching journalists
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Ambassador Marcello Spatafora, Chairman, 1718 Committee:
"In fact I think it's the background, as the background atmosphere we have seen also the latest statement by Ambassador Richardson I think yesterday about the compliance by North Korea. I mean it appears that the political background atmosphere is always proceeding".
4. Cutaway, reporter
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Ambassador Marcello Spatafora, Chairman, 1718 Committee:
"So there was not a single case in which we had, we in the committee, had the perception of the feeling that there was some resistance or back tracking."
6. Cutaway, reporter
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Ambassador Marcello Spatafora, Chairman, 1718 Committee:
"There is a feeling in the committee, the feeling that whatever we feel that we can proceed and make progress in the implementation, because this is the point our mandate is the implementation of the resolution, whatever helps to the implementation we will proceed on that"
8. Wide shot, Ambassador Marcello Spatafora walking away
The implementation of sanctions against the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea (DPRK), imposed last October after the country claimed to have conducted a nuclear test, is on track, the head of the Security Council's sanctions committee said today.
The Sanctions Committee, created by the Council, met today in New York to discuss progress made in putting the measures, which expressly ban the support by Member States of the country's nuclear-related, other weapons of mass destruction-related and ballistic missile-related programmes.
Thus far, 68 countries and the European Union have reported that they are in the process of implementing the sanctions, the Committee?s chairman Ambassador Marcello Spatafora of Italy , told reporters after the meeting.
Of these countries, 31 stated they already have the appropriate legislation in place, 27 have informed the Council that there are measures which have already been or will be adopted to put the sanctions into operation, and a further 10 have notified the necessary officials in their governments with the intention of implementing them.
UN Security Council resolution 1718 imposes weapons and financial sanctions but is not backed by the threat of military force.
Under a multilateral deal struck on 13 February, four months after the country's first nuclear test, North Korea agreed to shut down its Yongbyon nuclear plant within 60 days.
Saturday marked the first deadline for the country to shut down and seal its main facility for manufacturing nuclear weapons fuel.
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