UN / NPT

The world's top diplomats and experts are gathering in New York for a series of meetings and events of the Preparatory Committee (PrepCom) for the 2010 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). UNTV / IAEA

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:10
• Production Date: 8 May 2009
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY - IAEA
• Subject Topical: NUCLEAR SCIENCE
• MAMS Id: U090508d

Description

STORY: UN / NPT
SOURCE: UNTV/ IAEA
TRT: 2.10
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 8 MAY 2009, NEW YORK CITY/ 2007/ 2007NUCLEAR RESEARCH INSTITUTE, REZ, CZECH REP/ 2004, ROKKASHO REPROCESSING PLANT, JAPAN/ 1995, NPP HAMAOKA, JAPAN/ 2005, LATVIA, SHUTDOWN RESEARCH REACTOR

Shotlist

1. Wide shot, containers of spent nuclear fuel.
2. Med shot, Inspector installing camera
3. Close up, connecting a cobra seal (electronic seal)
4. Close up, inspector applying a seal
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Tariq Rauf, IAEA Head of Verification and Security Policy Coordination,
“The task of doing verification under the NPT for non-nuclear states has been given to the IAEA, the International Atomic Energy Agency, and we have been doing this ever since the Treaty entered into force. There are more than a hundred countries now that, more than a hundred countries have signed the additional protocol and it’s enforced for ninety-one countries. With the additional protocols IAEA has the additional tools to also be able to verify that there’s no undeclared nuclear material and activity in addition to verifying that all nuclear material and activity is exclusively for peaceful purposes.”
6. Wide shot, inspectors walking down the steps
7. Med shot, working on the glove box
8. Wide shot, two staff members working on the glove box
9. Wide shot, working on the glove box
10. Zoom in, inspectors discussing next to nuclear fuel pond
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Tariq Rauf, IAEA Head of Verification and Security Policy Coordination:
“With the change in administration in the United States, with the excellent chairmanship of our chairman here at the PrepCom, and the cooperative attitude that has been extended by all the states party to the NPT, people are very optimistic that the multilateral arms control processes are now coming back to life and that we can make progress in all the critical important areas of reducing nuclear weapons and making the world safe from nuclear weapons.”
12. Med shot, inspector mounting a seal to a container
13. Med shot, inspector mounting a seal to a container
14. Close up, IAEA seal being mounted

Storyline

The world’s top diplomats and experts are gathering in New York for a series of meetings and events of the Preparatory Committee (PrepCom) for the 2010 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT).

Special efforts are being made to get more countries to sign up to the NPT additional protocol which is designed to strengthen and expand existing IAEA’s safeguards for verifying the peaceful use of nuclear materials and facilities by non-nuclear-weapon states parties to the Treaty.

IAEA’s Verification expert Tariq Rauf told UNifeed that “more than a hundred countries” have signed the additional protocol, which gives IAEA “the additional tools” to be able to verify “that there’s no undeclared nuclear material and activity” and that “all nuclear material and activity is exclusively for peaceful purposes.”

Raouf expressed optimism that “with the change in administration in the United States” and the “cooperative attitude” of states party to the NPT, there is a renewed impetus for multilateral arms control processes and a hope that “we can make progress in all the critical important areas of reducing nuclear weapons and making the world safe from nuclear weapons.”

The NPT, which entered into force in 1970 and was extended indefinitely in 1995, requires that review conferences be held every five years. The Treaty is regarded as the cornerstone of the global nuclear non-proliferation regime. Its objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons, to further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament and general and complete disarmament and to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy.

The third session of the PrepCom takes place at UN Headquarters in New York from 4 to 15 May 2009. This meeting is the last of the usual three sessions held prior to the 2010 Review Conference.