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STORY: IAEA / BOARD OF GOVERNORS
TRT: 3.48
SOURCE: IAEA
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 12 SEPTEMBER, VIENNA, AUSTRIA
RECENT 2011, IAEA HEADQUARTERS, VIENNA, AUSTRIA
1. Wide shot, exterior IAEA headquarters
12 SEPTEMBER, VIENNA, AUSTRIA
2. Med shot, Yukiya Amano enters the Board of Governors meeting room and walks towards the podium
3. Med shot, cameramen and photographers taking pictures of Amano
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Yukiya Amano, Director General, IAEA:
“The IAEA will continue to provide every possible assistance to Japan as it restores control over the Fukushima Daiichi plant and tackles the challenging work of decontamination and remediation. Continuing full transparency on Japan’s part will also be important.”
5. Cutaway, delegates
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Yukiya Amano, Director General, IAEA:
“In countries considering introducing nuclear power, interest remains strong, despite Fukushima Daiichi. Most of these countries are proceeding with plans to add nuclear power to their energy mix, although a few countries have cancelled or revised their plans, while others have taken a ‘wait and see’ approach. The factors that contributed to increasing interest in nuclear power before the Fukushima Daiichi accident have not changed: increasing global demand for energy, as well as concerns about climate change, dwindling reserves of oil and gas and uncertainty of supply of fossil fuels.”
8. Cutaway, delegates
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Yukiya Amano, Director General, IAEA:
“Reports about the construction of a new uranium enrichment facility and a light water reactor in the DPRK are deeply troubling. I again call upon the DPRK to fully comply with its obligations under relevant Security Council resolutions, to come into full compliance with the NPT and to cooperate promptly and fully with the Agency. I wish to stress that the Agency has an essential role to play in verifying the DPRK’s nuclear program.”
10. Cutaway, delegates
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Yukiya Amano, Director General, IAEA:
“The Agency is increasingly concerned about the possible existence in Iran of past or current undisclosed nuclear related activities involving military related organizations, including activities related to the development of a nuclear payload for a missile, about which the Agency continues to receive new information. In the near future, I hope to set out in greater detail the basis for the Agency’s concerns so that all Member States are fully informed.”
12. Cutaway, Iranian delegate
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Yukiya Amano, Director General, IAEA:
“The Agency continues to verify the non-diversion of nuclear material declared by Iran under its Safeguards Agreement. However, Iran is not providing the necessary cooperation to enable the Agency to provide credible assurance about the absence of undeclared nuclear material and activities in Iran, and therefore to conclude that all nuclear material in Iran is in peaceful activities. I urge Iran to take steps towards the full implementation of all relevant obligations in order to establish international confidence in the exclusively peaceful nature of its nuclear program.”
14. Wide shot, meeting
Head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Yukiya Amano delivered a report to the agency's Board of Governors in Vienna today (12 Sept).
In his opening statement Amano provided an update on the situation at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. He said that the agency will continue to provide assistance to Japan as it restored control of the plant and tackled the challenging work of decontamination and remediation. Amano emphasized that “continuing full transparency on Japan’s part will also be important.”
The Director General also reported on the current status of the IAEA Action Plan on Nuclear Safety, which he was asked to prepare by the IAEA Ministerial Conference on Nuclear Safety last June.
While noting that the expectation concerning the number of operating nuclear reactors in the world was to increase by about 90 by 2030, Amano said that countries considering introducing nuclear power were proceeding with plans to add nuclear power to their energy mix. He added that a few countries had cancelled or revised their plans, while others had taken a ‘wait and see’ approach.
Amano also briefed Member States on nuclear verification issues in Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) and Iran.
On DPRK, Amano noted that reports about the construction of a new uranium enrichment facility and a light water reactor in the DPRK were “deeply troubling,” and he called upon the DPRK to fully comply with its obligations under relevant Security Council resolutions, the Nuclear Proliferation Tretay (NPT) and to cooperate promptly and fully with the agency.
He stressed that the agency “has an essential role to play in verifying the DPRK’s nuclear program.”
On Iran, Amano said that he had held meetings in June and July with Iranian authorities including Vice President Fereydoun Abbasi and Minister for Foreign Affairs Ali Akbar Salehi. IAEA’s Deputy Director General for Safeguards travelled to Iran in August and visited a number of facilities. He added that although Iran had demonstrated then greater transparency, it still continues with the enrichment of uranium in further contravention of Security Council and Board of Governors resolutions.
Amano stressed that the agency was “increasingly concerned about the possible existence in Iran of past or current undisclosed nuclear related activities involving military related organizations, including activities related to the development of a nuclear payload for a missile, about which the Agency continues to receive new information.”
He also said that the Agency continued to verify the non-diversion of nuclear material declared by Iran under its Safeguards Agreement. However, Amano said “Iran is not providing the necessary cooperation to enable the Agency to provide credible assurance about the absence of undeclared nuclear material and activities in Iran, and therefore to conclude that all nuclear material in Iran is in peaceful activities.”
Amano urged Iran to take steps towards the full implementation of all its relevant obligations to establish the needed confidence from the international community about the exclusively peaceful nature of its nuclear program.
The 35-nation Board which meets five times a year is the IAEA's policymaking body.
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