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UN / NPT CONFERENCE WRAP
STORY: UN / NPT CONFERENCE WRAP
TRT: 5.31
SOURCE: UNTV
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/ FARSI/ NATS
DATELINE: 3 MAY 2010, NEW YORK CITY/ FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior UN building
3 MAY 2010, NEW YORK CITY
2. Various shots, Yukiya Amano’s arrival
3. Various shots, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s arrival
4. Zoom in, General Assembly Hall
5. Wide shot, the Secretary-General walks to the podium
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“The world’s people want more from us; and more progress on disarmament; more arms cuts and more transparency. There are doubts about compliance. There are resentments between nuclear “haves” and “have-nots.”
7. Med shot, delegates
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“I call on Iran to comply fully with Security Council resolutions and fully cooperate fully with the IAEA. I encourage Iran to accept the nuclear fuel supply proposal put forward by the Agency. This would be an important confidence-building measure. And I encourage the President of Iran to engage constructively. Let us be clear: the onus is on Iran to clarify the doubts and concerns about its programme.”
9. Wide shot, Amano at the podium
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Yukiya Amano, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA):
“In the case of Iran, the Agency continues to verify the non-diversion of declared nuclear material, but remains unable to confirm that all nuclear material is in peaceful activities because Iran has not provided the necessary cooperation.”
11. Med shot, delegates
12. Wide shot, Ahmadinejad walks to the podium
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of Iran:
“The Secretary-General said that Iran must accept the fuel exchange and that the ball is now in Iran’s court. Well, I’d like to tell you, and inform him as well, that we accepted that from the start and I’d like to announce once again that to us it is an accepted deal. So now we have thrown the ball in the court of those who should accept our proposal and embark in cooperation with us.”
14. Various shots, American, British and French delegations walk out
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of Iran:
“A nation which abolished slavery 2,500 years ago, I mean, the great nation of Iran, is in no need of nuclear bombs for its development and does not regard it a source of honor and dignity.”
16. Wide shot, Hillary Clinton walks to the podium
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Hillary Clinton, United States Secretary of State:
“We support efforts to realize the goal of a weapon of mass destruction free zone in the Middle East, in accordance with the 1995 Middle East Resolution. The Middle East may present the greatest threat of nuclear proliferation in the world today. Adherence to the NPT is not universal and a few countries that are parties to the NPT have violated their treaty obligations
18. Pan right audience applause
19. Tracking shot, Clinton walks up to the microphone
20. Close up, cameras
21. Wide shot, press encounter
22. SOUNDBITE (English) Hillary Clinton, United States Secretary of State:
“Among other things, Iran’s president today claimed that Iran had accepted the IAEA’s proposal to refuel the Teheran Research Reactor. Iran has a history of making confusing, contradictory and inaccurate statements designed to convey the impression that it has adopted a flexible attitude towards the proposal. But, we have seen no indication that Iran is willing to accept the IAEA’s October proposal, or any variant of that proposal that would achieve the confidence building goals that were intended.”
23. Close up, reporter’s note pad
24. SOUNDBITE (English) Hillary Clinton, United States Secretary of State:
“I can tell you that he knows the address of the IAEA, he knows what is expected of him; he can respond at any time and we would still welcome a good fate, legitimate, genuine response. But, we are - as you know - waiting.”
25. Med shot, reporters,
26. Tracking shot, Clinton walks away
27. Various shots, Ahmadinejad meeting the Secretary-General
The world is looking to the more than 100 nations gathered at United Nations Headquarters today (3 May) for a major nuclear non-proliferation conference to take decisive action to build a safer world, United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said at the event’s start.
He told the five-yearly review of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) which kicked off today in New York that “the world’s people want more from us; and more progress on disarmament; more arms cuts and more transparency” while he noted that “there are doubts about compliance” as well as resentments between nuclear “haves” and “have-nots.”
Ban called on Iran to “comply fully with Security Council resolutions and fully cooperate fully with the IAEA”. He said Iran should accept the nuclear fuel supply proposal put forward by the Agency, and also encouraged the President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to engage constructively.”
The Secretary-General made it clear that “the onus is on Iran to clarify the doubts and concerns about its programme.”
He characterized the NPT, the cornerstone of the world’s nuclear non-proliferation regime, as one of the most important global treaties ever reached and laid out five benchmarks for success in pushing the agenda forward.
Another of his benchmarks is taking steps to achieve the NPT’s universality. India, Pakistan and Israel are not parties to the pact, and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) withdrew in 2003.
For his part, Yukiya Amano, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), who also addressed today’s meeting, said that Iran’s lack of cooperation is preventing the agency from confirming that all nuclear material is not being diverted to a weapons programme.
He said that the Agency continues to verify the non-diversion of declared nuclear material, “but remains unable to confirm that all nuclear material is in peaceful activities because Iran has not provided the necessary cooperation.”
Mr. Amano also noted that the IAEA has not been able to confirm the nature of nuclear activities in the DPRK, which ceased all cooperation with the Agency last year, and has no made progress in resolving questions related to the nature of the Dair Alzour site – alleged by some to be the site of a nuclear reactor – which was destroyed by Israel.
The IAEA chief urged the 20 parties to the NPT which have yet to bring comprehensive safeguards agreements into force to take immediate steps to join the 98 countries which have done so.
Ahmadinejad responded to the Secretary-General, saying that Iran has accepted the fuel exchange offer and “now we have thrown the ball in the court of those who should accept our proposal and embark in cooperation with us.”
He emphatically denied that his country intended to build a nuclear weapon and said that Iran “is in no need of nuclear bombs for its development and does not regard it a source of honor and dignity.”
United States (US) Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told the meeting that the US supports “efforts to realize the goal of a weapon of mass destruction free zone in the Middle East, in accordance with the 1995 Middle East Resolution” while noting that some countries in the region, parties to the NPT, “have violated their treaty obligations.”
Speaking to reporters Clinton said that Ahmadinejad claim of having accepted the IAEA’s proposal to refuel the Tehran Research Reactor was part of Iran’s “history of making confusing, contradictory and inaccurate statements designed to convey the impression that it has adopted a flexible attitude towards the proposal.”
She said that Ahmadinejad, “knows the address of the IAEA, he knows what is expected of him; he can respond at any time and we would still welcome a good fate, legitimate, genuine response. But, we are - as you know - waiting.”
The current gathering is expected to wrap up on 28 May.
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