VIENNA / BOARD OF GOVERNORS

The UN atomic energy chief says that his agency, "cannot confirm that all nuclear material in Iran is in peaceful activities," and calls on the country to "take steps towards the full implementation of its Safeguards Agreement" as a matter of high priority. IAEA

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:40
• Production Date: 1 March 2010
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY - IAEA
• Subject Topical: POLITICAL AFFAIRS; LAW; INTERNATIONAL LAW; POLITICAL CONDITIONS; NUCLEAR SCIENCE
• Geographic Subject: IRAN; SYRIA
• MAMS Id: U100301c

Description

STORY: VIENNA / BOARD OF GOVERNORS
TRT: 1:40
SOURCE: IAEA
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 1 MARCH 2010, VIENNA, AUSTRIA

Shotlist

1. Med shot, flags flying at UN Vienna headquarters
2. Wide shot, meeting room
3. Wide shot, IAEA Director-General Yukiya Amano arriving at meeting
4. Various shots, Amano sitting down
5. Various shots, IAEA Iran’s Envoy Ali Asghar Soltanieh at meeting
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Yukiya Amano, Director-General, International Atomic Energy Agency:
“The Agency continues, under its Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement with Iran, to verify the non-diversion of declared nuclear material in Iran, but we cannot confirm that all nuclear material in Iran is in peaceful activities because Iran has not provided the Agency with the necessary cooperation.”
7. Cutaway, delegates listening
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Yukiya Amano, Director-General, International Atomic Energy Agency:
“I request Iran to take steps towards the full implementation of its Safeguards Agreement and its other obligations as a matter of high priority.”
9. Cutaway, delegates listening
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Yukiya Amano, Director-General, International Atomic Energy Agency:
“Syria has not cooperated with the Agency since June 2008 in connection with the unresolved issues related to the Dair Alzour site and other locations. As a consequence, the Agency has not been able to make progress towards resolving the outstanding issues related to those sites since the previous report to the Board of Governors.”
11. Wide shot, meeting room

Storyline

The UN Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief said that his agency, “cannot confirm that all nuclear material in Iran is in peaceful activities,” and called on the country to “take steps towards the full implementation of its Safeguards Agreement” as a matter of high priority.

Addressing the IAEA 35- nation Board of Governors meeting in Vienna today, Director-General Yukiya Amano reported on the implementation of nuclear safeguards in Iran and Syria urging the countries to cooperate with the agency.

He urged Iran to cooperate in areas including the implementation of resolutions by both the IAEA and the Security Council, as well as clarification of issues related to the possible military dimensions to its nuclear programme.

On Syria, he said that the agency has been unable to verify nuclear activities in Dair Alzour and other locations since June 2008 when the country failed to cooperate with the agency.

Amano, who took up his four-year post as chief of the agency in December, also touched on nuclear energy, nuclear safety and cancer control.

The Board meets five times a year at the IAEA headquarters in Vienna to discuss the agency’s work on nuclear verification, safety, security and the peaceful use of nuclear technologies.