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STORY: UN / IRAN SANCTIONS
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DATELINE: 23 JUNE 2011, NEW YORK CITY
RECENT 2011, UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
23 JUNE 2011, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. Med shot, Colombian Ambassador Nestor Osorio, member of the Security Council Sanctions Ctte. following his presentation
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ambassador Mark Lyall Grant, Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations:
“Iran continues to violate this Council’s sanctions both as a nuclear and conventional weapons proliferator. The Iranians themselves say as much. Earlier this month the head of Iran’s atomic energy organization announced Iran’s intention to increase its capacity to produce 20 percent enriched uranium at Qom. This directly contravenes six Security Council resolutions requiring Iran to suspend enrichment immediately.”
5. Cutaway, Colombian and French delegates
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Ambassador Mark Lyall Grant, Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations:
“At our last meeting to discuss a 90-day report, we raised the interdiction of the Iranian rockets sent to the Taliban in Afghanistan – another clear violation of Security Council resolutions. We remain gravely concerned that the Iranian government is directly engaged in providing arms to the insurgency in Afghanistan.”
7. Cutaway, Nigerian and Portuguese Delegates
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Ambassador Susan Rice, Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations:
“The Panel’s final report must be quickly disseminated to all UN member States as is standard practice for UN Expert Panels. This report which the Council has not yet released publicly highlights information and best practices that can help States carry out their obligations. It needs to be shared; Making these reports publicly available shows important transparency. It also underscores it was serious about implementing the sanctions we have imposed on Iran.”
9. Cutaway, Brazilian and Chinese delegates
10. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Ambassador Alexander Pankin, 1st Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations:
“Its very important that the activities of the experts be based on an impartial and independent basis with the use of only reliable source of information. When making the recommendations and conclusions unverified or politicized information should not help to promote any initiatives in the Security Council or in the committee.”
11. Cutaway, Indian and Lebanese delegates
12. SOUNDBITE (French) Ambassador Martin Briens, Deputy Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations:
“The violation of the arms embargo is the crux of the notifications made to the committee. There are three new cases which have been brought to our attention since the last meeting in March. Indeed, these arms transfers are a threat to the security of all of us. We are particularly concerned here by the active role of Syria in these illicit arms transfers.”
13. Cutaway, German delegate
14. Wide shot, Security Council ends meeting
The United Nations (UN) Security Council today (23 June) met on resolution 1737 which imposes sanctions on Iran, freezing the financial assets of persons or entities supporting the development of nuclear-weapon delivery systems.
Addressing the 15-member Council, Ambassador Mark Lyall Grant of the United Kingdom (UK) said “Iran continues to violate this Council’s sanctions both as a nuclear and conventional weapons proliferator.”
Over the past five years, the Council has imposed four rounds of sanctions on Iran, including a ban on all items which could contribute to the country’s enrichment of uranium, a necessary step for both peaceful and militaristic uses of nuclear energy, and arms sales and a freeze on assets.
Grant added that the Council remains “gravely concerned that the Iranian government is directly engaged in providing arms to the insurgency in Afghanistan.”
The UN Sanctions Committee established to monitor sanctions on Iran related to its nuclear programme, in its latest 90-day report, says there are three additional cases of alleged violations of paragraph 5 of resolution 1747 (2007), which imposes a ban on the export to and procurement by Iran of arms and related materiel.
News reports say that Iranian officials continue to deny international suspicions that Tehran's nuclear enrichment programme is geared towards producing nuclear weapons.
United States (US) Ambassador Susan Rice asked that final report be quickly disseminated to all UN Member States saying that “this report, which the Council has not yet released publicly, highlights information and best practices that can help States carry out their obligations.”
According to the Chair of the Committee Ambassador Néstor Osorio of Colombia, some of the cases are still being examined by the committee and the panel of experts established last year to monitor and enforce the sanctions against Iran.
Speaking after Rice, Ambassador Alexander Pankin from Russian Federation said “it’s very important that the activities of the experts be based on an impartial and independent basis with the use of only reliable source of information.”
On the findings of the report, Ambassador Martin Briens from France said “these arms transfers are a threat to the security of all of us. We are particularly concerned here by the active role of Syria in these illicit arms transfers.”
Iran’s nuclear programme has been a matter of international concern since the discovery in 2003 that it had concealed its nuclear activities for 18 years in breach of its obligations under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
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