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STORY: IAEA / AMANO
TRT: 1.45
SOURCE: IAEA
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 10 SEPTEMBER, VIENNA, AUSTRIA / FILE
FILE – RECENT, VIENNA, AUSTRIA
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
10 SEPTEMBER, VIENNA AUSTRIA
2. Wide shot, Board of Governors meeting
3. Med shot, delegates listening
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Yukiya Amano, Director-General, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA):
“Despite the intensified dialogue between the Agency and Iran since January 2012, no concrete results have been achieved so far. This is frustrating because, without Iran’s full engagement, we will not be able to start the process to resolve all outstanding issues, including those concerning possible military dimensions to its nuclear programme. We consider it essential for Iran to engage with us without further delay on the substance of our concerns.”
5. Wide shot, Board of Governors meeting
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Yukiya Amano, Director-General, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA):
“The activities observed further strengthen our assessment that it is necessary to have access to the location at Parchin without further delay in order to obtain the required clarifications.”
7. Med shot, delegates listening
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Yukiya Amano, Director-General, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA):
“It appears that, since my previous report, significant progress has been made in the construction of a light water reactor, one of two undeclared facilities at Yongbyon. However, without access to the site, the Agency is unable to assess either the design features of the reactor, or the likely date for its completion.”
9. Pan right, podium to delegates
The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog today (10 September) called for more cooperation by Iran and urged it to grant inspectors access to the Parchin nuclear facility site.
Addressing the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)’s Board of Governors in Vienna, Director General Yukiya Amano said that despite intensified dialogue between the agency and Iran since the beginning of the year, no concrete results have been achieved so far.
“This is frustrating because, without Iran’s full engagement, we will not be able to start the process to resolve all outstanding issues, including those concerning possible military dimensions to its nuclear programme,” the agency chief said. “We consider it essential for Iran to engage with us without further delay on the substance of our concerns.”
Amano noted that, in a letter dated 29 August 2012, Iran described allegations of nuclear activities at the Parchin site as ‘baseless’. However, he told the Board that activities observed since February of this year were a “matter of concern” and “further strengthen our assessment that it is necessary to have access to the location at Parchin without further delay in order to obtain the required clarifications”.
Iran’s nuclear programme – which its officials have stated is for peaceful purposes, but some other countries contend is driven by military ambitions – has been a matter of international concern since the discovery in 2003 that the country had concealed its nuclear activities for 18 years in breach of its obligations under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Iran has repeatedly stated that its nuclear programme is for the peaceful purpose of providing energy, but many countries contend it is seeking to develop nuclear weapons.
On North Korea, Amano said he remains seriously concerned about the country’s nuclear programme, and noted that the IAEA has not been able to implement any safeguards in the country since April 2009.
He said it appeared that “significant progress” had been made in the construction of a light water reactor at Yongbyon, one of two undeclared facilities there.
The Director General reiterated his call for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) to fully comply with its obligations under relevant Security Council resolutions and with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and to cooperate "promptly and fully" with the IAEA.
The 35-nation Board of Governors, which meets five times a year at the IAEA headquarters in Vienna, Austria, is the agency’s policymaking body.
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