UN / IRAN

The 'P5+1', aka E3+3, group of permanent Security Council members plus Germany held a high-level meeting on the sidelines of the General Assembly to discuss Iran. UNTV

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:15
• Production Date: 27 September 2012
• Asset Language: Original
• Subject Topical: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; DISARMAMENT; NUCLEAR SCIENCE
• Geographic Subject: IRAN
• MAMS Id: U120927o

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STORY: UN / IRAN
TRT: 1.15
SOURCE: UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 27 SEPTEMBER 2012, NEW YORK CITY / FILE

Shotlist

FILE – 2011, NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters

27 SEPTEMBER 2012, NEW YORK CITY

2. Close up, sign saying “Security Council – Conseil de Securité”
3. Various shots, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, Russian Ambassador to the UN Vitaly Churkin, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton, Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi, UK Foreign Secretary William Hague, and German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle seated in conference room
4. Wide shot, Catherine Ashton approaching the microphone
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Catherine Ashton, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy:
“We discussed at length the need for Iran to take action urgently as we considered the Iranian nuclear issue. I will from that meeting now be in touch again with Iran to continue this process. Thanks very much.”
6. Wide shot, Laurent Fabius approaching the microphone
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Laurent Fabius, Minister of Foreign Affairs of France:
“The main word is unity, unity, and to exert pressure. And on these items, unity, pressure, and openness, the P5+1 is completely united.”
8. Med shot, Fabius leaving

Storyline

The group of permanent Security Council members plus Germany known as 'P5+1' or ‘E3+3’ today (27 September) held a high-level meeting on the sidelines of the General Assembly to discuss Iran’s nuclear programme.

Speaking to the press after the meeting, the European Union’s foreign affairs representative Catherine Ashton said she had briefed the group on her recent contacts with Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili in Istanbul.

She said the meeting had “discussed at length the need for Iran to take action urgently as we considered the Iranian nuclear issue”, and that she would now be in touch with Iran again to “continue this process”.

Declining to comment on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s calls for a ‘red line’ for Iran in the General Assembly this morning, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told reporters that the “main word is unity, unity, and to exert pressure”, and that “on these items, unity, pressure, and openness, the P5+1 is completely united”.

The P5+1, also known as the E3+3, are China, France, Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States.