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STORY: UN / IRAN
TRT: 2.28
SOURCE: UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / ARABIC / NATS
DATELINE: 10 MARCH 2009, NEW YORK CITY
RECENT 2009, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, United Nations headquarters
10 MARCH 2009, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council chambers
3. Med shot, delegates
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ambassador Susan Rice, Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations:
“In light of Iran’s continued failure to comply with its obligations, the Iran sanctions Committee should redouble its efforts to ensure full and robust implementation of Security Council resolutions 1737, 1747 and 1803.”
5. Med shot, delegates
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Ambassador Susan Rice, Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations:
“The United States also sees an opportunity, a chance for the Iranian government to demonstrate that it’s willing to unclench its fist and begin a serious responsible discussion about a range of issues. President Obama has already said that we’re prepared for principled engagement with Iran and we will ensure that such engagement is consistent with the decisions of this body.”
7. Med shot, delegates
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Ambassador John Sawers, Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations:
“Iran has failed to respond substantively to this offer and so far not seriously engaged even on the suggestion of the ‘freeze for freezer’ agreement. We and our partners in the E3+3 continue to pursue Iran to change course and dialogue to lead to full negotiations if Iranians suspend their enrichment related activities.”
9. Med shot, delegates
10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ambassador Ibrahim Dabbashi, Permanent Representative of Libya to the United Nations:
“All states without exception must subject their nuclear installations to the guarantees of the IAEA. We regret that the Security Council to date has not given appropriate attention to the issue of Israel’s nuclear weapons although Israel refuses to agree to the non-proliferation treaty or to subject their installations to IAEA safeguards.”
11. Wide shot, Security Council
A UN committee today (10 March) said Iran violated a UN ban on importing or exporting arms by trying to ship weapons-related material in a vessel seized by authorities in Cyprus.
The chairman of the Iran sanctions committee, Japanese Ambassador Yukio Takasu told the Security Council that the act was in violation of resolution 1737, passed by the Council in 2006.
Following his presentation, United States Ambassador Susan Rice suggested the committee should redouble its efforts to ensure “full and robust implementation of Security Council resolutions 1737, 1747, and 1803.”
Rice stressed that the US administration saw an opportunity for a dialogue between both countries as long as the Iranian government demonstrated its willingness to “unclench its fist” and begin a serious discussion. She recalled that US President Barack Obama was prepared for "principled engagement" with Iran and said such engagement would be “consistent” with the decisions of the Security Council.
The United Kingdom’s Ambassador to the UN, John Sawers noted that in 2008 the governments of Britain, France, Germany and China, Russia and the United States, the so called E3+3 had offered Iran assistance to develop its civilian nuclear power in exchange for Iran’s suspension of enrichment activities. But, Sawers told the Council, “Iran has failed to respond substantively to this offer and so far not seriously engaged even on the suggestion of the ‘freeze for freezer’ agreement”.
Libyan Ambassador Ibrahim Dabbashi, who holds the rotating Security Council presidency this month but was speaking in his national capacity, told the Council that Libya had renewed its conviction that while dealing with non-proliferation, states had to be “comprehensive and non selective”. He noted that all states “without exception” must subject their nuclear installations to the guarantees of the IAEA, and regretted that the Council “to date” had “not given appropriate attention to the issue of Israel’s nuclear weapons” and the state’s refusal to subject its installations to IAEA safeguards.
