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UN / INDONESIA CTBT HANDOVER
STORY: UN / INDONESIA CTBT HANDOVER
TRT: 2.34
SOURCE: UNTV / CTBTO
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 6 FEBRUARY 2012, NEW YORK CITY
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1.Wide shot, exterior United Nations Headquarters
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2. Zoom in, Natalegawa walks to the stakeout position
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3. Close up, reporter’s laptop computer
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Marty Natalegawa, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Indonesia:
“It is our hope, and we will certainly work in that manner, that Indonesia’s ratification of the CTBT will propel others to do likewise. How that will get done, I guess we’ll need to communicate with the countries concerned to be able to discern what it is that is holding them back. I hope it’s not one waiting for the other to do this step beforehand, because this is what we have found ourselves. Before today Indonesia had waited for the nuclear weapons states to do this step before we proceeded.”
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5. Close up, reporters’ notepads
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Marty Natalegawa, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Indonesia:
“These countries must have the courage to step out of their comfort zone and to take some kind of a calculated risk that their positive efforts will be reciprocated. And I believe that the United Nations must be part of that, creating elements, conditions conducive for these countries to be making the right steps. Indonesia, we use the term waging peace aggressively, because we sincerely believe that it is possible to create a virtuous cycle where there was none before.”
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7. Close up, reporters’ notepad
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8. Pan right, Natalegawa, CTCTO Executive Secretary Tibor Tóth, and , and United Nations High Representative for Disarmament Sergio Duarte shake hands and walk away
9. SOUNDUP (English) Marty Natalegawa, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Indonesia:
“We hope that through our ratification today we will be able to precisely achieve that objective of achieving a world free of nuclear weapons.”
10. SOUNDUP (English) Patricia O'Brien, Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs:
“Thank you very much Minister for this deposit of the instrument of ratification to the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty.”
11. Wide shot, conference table
12. SOUNDUP (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“I am extremely happy and pleased to see that your government has made the strong commitment to realizing a world free of nuclear weapons.
13. Wide shot, conference table
14. Wide shot, photo-op with Duarte, Natalegawa, Ban, O'Brien and Tóth
FILE –CTBTO - 6 DECEMBER 2011, JAKARTA, INDONESIA
15. Wide shot, exterior, parliament building
16. Wide shot, parliament
17. Med shot, speaker of the House reading out ratification and banging gavel
18. Wide shot, parliament and applause
Indonesia’s Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa, after handing-over his country’s ratification to the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today (6 Feb) said that he hoped that Indonesia’s ratification “will propel others to do likewise.”
One hundred and eighty-two countries have signed the Treaty, of which 156 have also ratified it.
Natalegawa pointed out that Indonesia’s goal will be to communicate with and encourage those countries that have not yet ratified the Treaty and “be able to discern what it is that is holding them back.” He acknowledged that until recently, his country “had waited for the nuclear weapons states to do this step before we proceeded.”
The Foreign Minister told reporters that those countries that have not yet ratified the Treaty “must have the courage to step out of their comfort zone and to take some kind of a calculated risk that their positive efforts will be reciprocated.”
He added that the United Nations “must be part of that, creating elements, conditions conducive for these countries to be making the right steps.”
Earlier today, Natalegawa handed the document over to Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs Patricia O'Brien, who in turn handed them to the Secretary-General.
Also present at today’s ceremony were the head of the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) Tibor Tóth and United Nations High Representative for Disarmament Sergio Duarte.
Indonesia’s parliament ratified the Treaty on 6 December but did not receive official recognition until today when it is presented to the United Nations.
The CTBT’s stringent entry-into-force provision proscribes that all 44 designated nuclear technology holder countries must sign and ratify the Treaty in order to bring it into law. With Indonesia’s ratification, 36 have now done so. The remaining ones are China, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), Egypt, India, Iran, Israel, Pakistan and the United States.
Indonesia currently chairs the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), who’s 10 Member States have also concluded the Bangkok Treaty establishing the most comprehensive nuclear-weapon-free zone on Earth.
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