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DAVOS / BAN PRESSER
STORY: DAVOS / BAN PRESSER
TRT: 1.51
SOURCE: EBU POOL
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 27 JANUARY 2012, DAVOS, SWITZERLAND
1. Wide shot, Ban sitting down at press conference
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Iran should fully comply with the relevant Security Council resolutions. All the member states of the United Nations have responsibility, political and legal to fully comply with the Security Council resolutions. They have not done yet and they have to prove themselves that their nuclear development program is genuinely for peaceful purposes. Which they have not done yet.”
3. Cutaway, Ban at press conference
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“And I’m encouraged that when it comes to Syrian situation, the League of Arab states have made a resolution for political process. The Secretary General of the league of Arab states and the chairman of this, the Qatari Prime Minister, are coming to the United Nations Security Council to brief them. I hope that the Sc will be able to act in a coherent, in the same voice.”
5. Cut away, press conference
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Fully utilizing the potential of women can accelerate in addressing all these difficult challenges including current economic and financial crisis. I believe that the least utilized resources of this world are women, women potentials.”
7. Wide shot, press conference
United Nations (UN) Secretary General Ban Ki-moon today urged Tehran to halt its nuclear programme and to resume talks with Western powers, saying that the onus is on Iran to prove its good intentions.
"There is no other alternative to addressing this crisis than peaceful resolution through dialogue," Ban said on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum's annual meeting at the Swiss ski resort in Davos.
He said that Iran should comply with the relevant Security Council resolutions, addign that "they have to prove themselves, that their nuclear development programme is genuinely for peaceful purposes which they have not done yet".
Addressing the crisis in Syria he said he was encouraged by the Arab Leagues resolution for a political process and urged the UN Security Council to speak with one voice on Syria.
Ban said, “the Secretary General of the league of Arab states and the chairman of this, the Qatari Prime Minister, are coming to the United Nations Security Council to brief them. I hope that the Security Council will be able to act in a coherent, in the same voice."
The 15-nation Security Council has been unable to agree on a resolution on Syria’s repression of the anti-government protests that erupted last March.
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