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STORY: UN / IRAN SANCTIONS
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SOURCE: UNTV
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 15 SEPTEMBER 2010, NEW YORK CITY
RECENT 2010, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
15 SEPTEMBER 2010, NEW YORK CITY
2. Zoom in, Security Council
3. Cutaway, delegates
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ambassador Susan Rice, Permanent Representative of the United States, United Nations:
“Iran is not cooperating fully with the IAEA. The UN Security Council has clearly established in its resolutions on Iran that cooperation with the IAEA is a fundamental benchmark and test of Iran’s peaceful intentions, and the IAEA report is the clearest evidence yet that Iran is refusing to address our proliferation concerns, and appears determined to acquire a nuclear weapons capability.”
5. Cutaway, delegates
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Ambassador Susan Rice, Permanent Representative of the United States, United Nations:
“The 1737 committee continues to play a critical role in monitoring and improving the enforcement of Security Council resolutions on Iran. We strongly support this committee which is the principle mechanism to help states fulfil their obligations to implement the measures and to respond when states fail to enforce UN sanctions. The Committee should move quickly to implement the action items in its ambitious work program especially to respond to Iran’s well documented patterns of sanctions evasions.”
7. Cutaway, delegate
8. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Ambassador Wang Min, Deputy Permanent Representative of China, United Nations:
“We believe sanctions are not an end in themselves, they cannot provide a fundamental solution to the problem on hand. Peaceful solutions though diplomatic efforts and dialogue remains the best choice. At present, new opportunities have emerged for restarting dialogue and negotiations over this issue.”
9. Cutaway, delegates
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Ambassador Mark Lyall Grant, Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom, United Nations:
“The report makes clear that Iran has not suspended its enrichment related activities or work on its heavy water related projects. It indicates that Iran has produced 2,803 kilograms of low enriched uranium enriched to less than five percent. The report also states that Iran produced 22 Kilograms of low enriched uranium enriched to just under twenty percent this is a significant step towards the ability to enrich to weapons grade levels and Iran has no credible civilian application for this level of enriched uranium.”
11. Cutaway, delegates
12. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Ambassador Vitaly Churkin, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation, United Nations:
“Our position continues unchanged. We have consistently advocated addressing the issues relating to this program via dialogue and interaction with the Iranian side. The pillar of the Russian position has always been and continues to be reliance on negotiations and a diplomatic search for a solutions and involving Teheran in joint work while ensuring full compliance with the activities of the IAEA. We call upon Iran to take necessary steps and accommodation to ensure a broad dialogue with the six that would be aimed at a negotiating settlement to the issue relating to the Iranian nuclear program.”
13. Wide shot, Security Council
The Security Council met today regarding Resolution 1737, which imposes sanctions against Iran for failing to stop its uranium enrichment program.
Three months ago, the council imposed a fourth round of sanctions after Iran refused to suspend its program, with some countries believing it is being used to develop nuclear weapons.
The council had also agreed to set up a panel of experts to present reports on a regular basis to the Iran sanctions committee on the country’s compliance. But the panel has yet to be put in place.
United States Ambassador Susan Rice said there was “concern” that the panel has been delayed and urged that the panel become operational, “as soon as possible."
Commenting on the latest report from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rice said that, “Iran is not cooperating fully with the IAEA,” and that the latest report was the “clearest evidence yet” that Iran is refusing to address proliferation concerns and “appears determined to acquire a nuclear weapons capability.”
Rice said the US strongly supported the committee and that it should move quickly to implement the action items in its work program “especially to respond to Iran’s well documented patterns of sanctions evasions.”
China’s Ambassador Wang Min told delegates that his country remained committed to solving the Iranian nuclear issue through dialogue and negotiation.
He said that China believed sanctions were not, “an end in themselves” adding that peaceful solutions though diplomatic efforts and dialogue, “remains the best choice.”
British Ambassador Mark Lyall Grant said the IAEA report made it clear that Iran had “not suspended” its enrichment related activities or work on its heavy water related projects. He also said that Iran’s production and enrichment of uranium was a significant step, “towards the ability to enrich to weapons grade levels and Iran has no credible civilian application for this level of enriched uranium.”
Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said his country’s position remained unchanged, adding that Russia had “consistently advocated addressing the issues relating to this program via dialogue and interaction with the Iranian side.”
On 23 December 2006, the Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 1737 after Iran failed to take several steps required by prior resolution 1696. These steps included Iran suspending its uranium-enrichment program.
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