GENEVA / NUCLEAR WEAPONS STATES

The UN Security Council's five permanent members today in Geneva say that North Korea and Iran pose "serious challenges" to the world's most important pact on preventing the spread of nuclear arms. CH UNTV

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:21
• Production Date: 19 April 2013
• Asset Language: Original
• Subject Topical: PEACE AND SECURITY; DISARMAMENT
• Geographic Subject: UNITED STATES; CHINA; FRANCE; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; UNITED KINGDOM
• MAMS Id: U130419k

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STORY: GENEVA / NUCLEAR WEAPONS STATES
TRT: 2.21
SOURCE: CH UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / CHINESE / FRENCH / NATS

DATELINE: 19 APRIL 2013, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / FILE

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FILE – RECENT, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

1. Wide shot, Palais des Nations

19 APRIL 2013, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

2. Pan right, from journalists to dais
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Rose Gottemoeller, Acting Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security, Department of State, United States of America:
“It’s no secret that the United States has cancelled the fourth phase of our European phased adaptive approach, and shifted our attention more to Asia, precisely because of the concerns we’ve had for enhanced threats from North Korea. However, I want to stress very strongly that those are limited steps that we are undertaking. We are not throwing an enormous number of new capacity at this problem, but recognizing that it is an enhanced threat- nevertheless, it is an enhanced threat that we are dealing with through limited means.”
4. Med shot, journalists
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Grigory Berdennikov, Ambassador-at-Large, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Russian Federation:
“All sides should demonstrate restraint in this very tense situation and there should be a very peaceful and negotiated solution to this whole situation.”
6. Med shot, journalists
7. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Sen Pang, Director-General, Arms Control and Disarmament Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, People’s Republic of China:
“The Korean peninsula issue has been there for more than half a century. The key issue here is the lack of security, a lack of mutual trust. Any one’s side increase of military force, will cause insecurity on the other side, and will cause a corresponding response. If this mutually enhanced military force falls into a vicious cycle, will lead to increasing crisis situation in the Korean peninsula. Therefore as far as I can see, in order to seek a fundamental solution to the issue, everyone must sit down and talk to each other to increase mutual trust and mutual confidence. This is the fundamental way to solve the Korean peninsula issue.”
8. Med shot, journalists
9. SOUNDBITE (French) Patrick Maisonnave, Director for Strategic, Security and Disarmament Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, France:
“The news in Vienna is a cooperation between the Agency and Iran which remains unsatisfactory, so for now we are in a period where we are not reassured, we are not reassured regarding the purposes of the Iranian nuclear program.”
10. Wide shot, conference room

Storyline

The United Nations Security Council's five permanent members say North Korea and Iran pose serious challenges to the global treaty on preventing the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology.

Speaking to journalists in Geneva today (19 April), before the start of two weeks of talks in Geneva over the 1970 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), Rose Gottemoeller of the United States said that the US had shifted its attention to Asia “because of the concerns we’ve had for enhanced threats from North Korea.”

However, she stressed that only “limited steps” had been undertaken in this regards. She clarified that “we are not throwing an enormous number of new capacity at this problem, but recognizing that it is an enhanced threat.”

On North Korea, Grigory Berdennikov, of the Russian Federation, said that “all sides should demonstrate restraint in this very tense situation and there should be a very peaceful and negotiated solution to this whole situation.”

Sen Pang of China said “the key issue here is the lack of security, a lack of mutual trust” adding that “any one’s side increase of military force, will cause insecurity on the other side, and will cause a corresponding response.”

Speaking on the situation in Iran, Patrick Maisonnave of France said that “the news in Vienna is a cooperation between the Agency and Iran which remains unsatisfactory, so for now we are in a period where we are not reassured, we are not reassured regarding the purposes of the Iranian nuclear program.”

The NPT has been signed by 190 nations. North Korea and Iran are not members.

Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States, the five NPT nuclear-weapon states, or P5, met under the chairmanship of the Russian Federation to build on the 2009 London, 2011 Paris, and 2012 Washington P5 conferences. They reviewed progress towards fulfilling the commitments made at the 2010 NPT Review Conference.

They also continued discussions on issues related to all three pillars of the NPT— non-proliferation, the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, and disarmament, including confidence-building, transparency, and verification experiences.