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STORY: UN / IRAN SANCTIONS
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DATELINE: 7 SEPTEMBER 2011, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
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1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
7 SEPTEMBER 2011, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. Med shot, delegates
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Susan Rice, Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations:
“We condemn Iran’s persistent refusal to fulfil its international nuclear obligations. Iran’s actions underscore the continuing necessity of full enforcement of sanctions by the international community in order to motivate Iran to comply with those obligations and to deny Iran the ability to advance its prescribed programmes.”
5. Med shot, delegates
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Martin Briens, Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations:
“Why then does Iran continue to produce 20 percent uranium, given that the supplies for the research reactors have already been generated? Therefore, why is it transferring 20 percent uranium production to the Qom factory, a bunkerised installation which is suited for military use, an installation that was built secretly; an installation, a plant, which can be easily and rapidly reconfigured in order to produce higher enriched uranium?”
7. Med shot, delegates
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Vitaly Churkin, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations:
“We have constantly been in favour of solving any problems through dialogue with the Iranian side. We are concerned that there is no alternative to a political and diplomatic approach, and there is a need to find a compromise solution that would enable us towards the stated aim: namely to eradicate any doubt about the purely peaceful nature of Iran’s nuclear programme.”
9. Med shot, delegates
10. Wide shot, Security Council
11. Wide shot, Rice walks to the stakeout position
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12. Close up, reporter’s laptop
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13. SOUNDBITE (English) Susan Rice, Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations:
“We are particularly concerned about reports there are, the loading of and preparation for the spinning of centrifuges at the Qom facility which is a flagrant and blatant violation of existing sanctions and at the same time we underscored the importance of continued toughened enforcement of the sanctions regime that exists under 1929 and its predecessors.”
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14. Close up, reporter’s notepad
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15. SOUNDBITE (English) Susan Rice, Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations:
“We expressed our dismay and concern that there are still some members of the sanctions committee that are not amenable at this stage to the publication on the website of the panel of expert’s latest report, which in our view is a failure of the mandate of the committee. It violated the principles and the purposes of transparency for which the committee and the panel were established.”
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16. Close up, photographer
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17. Med shot, Rice walks to the stakeout position
Security Council members today (7 September) expressed concern about Iran’s nuclear programme, after hearing a briefing from Ambassador Néstor Osorio of Colombia, chair of the committee monitoring sanctions imposed on Iran.
United States (US) Ambassador Susan Rice condemned Iran’s “persistent refusal to fulfil its international nuclear obligations” and said that Iran’s actions “underscore the continuing necessity of full enforcement of sanctions” in order to “deny Iran the ability to advance its prescribed programmes.”
French Ambassador Martin Briens, commenting on Iran’s nuclear enrichment activities, asked why Iran is transferring its 20 percent uranium enrichment activities to the Qom nuclear facility, “a bunkerised installation which is suited for military use.”
Twenty percent uranium enrichment is considered military weapons grade. Tehran has alleged that its enrichment programme is needed for civilian uses.
Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin, meanwhile, stressed the need to solve any differences through dialogue and “find a compromise solution that would enable us towards the stated aim: namely to eradicate any doubt about the purely peaceful nature of Iran’s nuclear programme.”
Outside the Council, Rice told reporters that the loading and preparation of centrifuges at the Qom facility was “a flagrant and blatant violation of existing sanctions.”
Rice called for the sanctions committee to make public a report by a UN panel on Iran's nuclear activities.
She expressed “dismay and concern” that unidentified members of the committee “are not amenable at this stage” to the publication of the report on the panel’s website.
She said that such actions “violated the principles and the purposes of transparency for which the committee and the panel were established.”
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) recently submitted a report that Iran has continued to make advances in uranium enrichment beyond its needs for civilian applications.
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