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GA / CTBT WRAP
STORY: GA / CTBT WRAP
TRT: 3.14
SOURCE: UNTV / CTBTO
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / FARSI / NATS
DATELINE: 27 SEPTEMBER 2013, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Tilt down, exterior United Nations headquarters
27 SEPTEMBER 2013, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, press conference dais
3. Wide shot, reporters
4. SOUNDBITE (English) János Martonyi, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Hungary:
“If you analyze each case, I mean, of the eight countries, then you realize that one depends upon the other. So, there seems to be a chain which if we can set in motion, then one can follow the other. So, they are very much interdependent. One is waiting for the other, or vice versa.”
5. Med shot, journalist
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Lassina Zerbo, CTBTO Executive Secretary:
“Iran has signed the Treaty and Iranian experts are participating in the workings of the Commission in Vienna. Today I was in discussions with the deputy Foreign Minister of Iran to see how we can engage in finding a framework to connect the monitoring system stations that are in Iran. Then we will work as hard as possible to see how this can be achieved. We assume that as we move forward, Iran will have an understanding framework with us and with the international community to move slowly towards their ratification of the Treaty which will be a sign, because when you ratify the CTBT you engage in not to conduct nuclear tests, but not even engage in a framework where you will encourage conducting nuclear tests.”
7. Wide shot, end of press conference
8. Wide shot, conference room
9. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Hassan Rouhani, President of Iran:
"We should think of creative ways to preclude misuse of the Security Council by some permanent members who impose illegal sanctions against a member state in order to advance their own short sighted foreign policy agenda."
10. Wide shot, conference room
RECENT - 4 SEPTEMBER 2013, NEW YORK CITY
11. Wide shot, CTBTO Executive Secretary Lassina Zerbo
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Lassina Zerbo, CTBTO Executive Secretary:
“As we stand today, with over 85 percent of our system completed, there is, I would say, hardly any event that could be significant for the development of weapons of mass destruction that would go undetected. We provided all our member states with the technical means for them to verify the Treaty in a way that no test goes undetected.”
FILE - 12 DECEMBER 2012, CTBTO HEADQUARTERS, VIENNA, AUSTRIA
13. Pan left, from monitor showing world map with monitoring stations to two technicians working in the control room.
14. Med shot, two technicians working in the control room.
FILE - MAY 2010, FREYUNG, BAVARIAN FOREST, GERMANY
15. Wide shot, technician going inside the vault of a seismic monitoring station
16. Med shot, technician descending into the seismic monitoring station
FILE - APRIL 2012, SEISMIC STATION, YELLOW KNIFE, CANADA
17. Wide shot, Seismic monitoring station
18. Med shot, Engineer inside a seismic monitoring station
FILE - 12 DECEMBER 2012, CTBTO HEADQUARTERS, VIENNA, AUSTRIA
19. Wide shot, CTBTO radionuclide test station on the roof of the United Nations Headquarters in Vienna with maintenance engineer
20. Med shot, maintenance engineer opening CTBTO radionuclide station and loosening the fixing of the old filter
21. Various shots, maintenance engineer putting new filter into the CTBTO radionuclide station and closing it
The Minister for Foreign Affairs of Hungary, János Martonyi, said today (27 September) that each of the eight countries that have not yet ratified the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) “depends upon the other” to take the first step towards ratification.
Martonyi, who together with the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia, Marty Natalegawa, are presiding the Conference on Facilitating Entry into Force of the CTBT, said that “there seems to be a chain which if we can set in motion, then one can follow the other.”
For the treaty to enter into force, ratification is required from the so-called “Annex 2 States.” Of these, China, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Egypt, India, Iran, Israel, Pakistan and the United States have yet to ratify.
Speaking at the same press conference, CTBTO Executive Secretary Lassina Zerbo said
“Iran has signed the Treaty and Iranian experts are participating in the workings of the Commission in Vienna.”
Zerbo noted that he has been in discussions with Iran and said he expected “that as we move forward, Iran will have an understanding framework with us and with the international community to move slowly towards their ratification of the Treaty.”
He pointed out that “when you ratify the CTBT you engage in not to conduct nuclear tests, but not even engage in a framework where you will encourage conducting nuclear tests.”
At a separate event at UN Headquarters this morning, the President of Iran decried the “misuse of the Security Council by some permanent members who impose illegal sanctions against a member state in order to advance their own short sighted foreign policy agenda."
Since 2006, the Security Council has passed a number of resolutions imposing sanctions on Iran over its nuclear programme.
Speaking about the CTBTO’s International Monitoring System, Zerbo said during a recent interview that “as we stand today, with over 85 percent of our system completed, there is, I would say, hardly any event that could be significant for the development of weapons of mass destruction that would go undetected.”
The monitoring system is an integral part of the Treaty and Zerbo said “member states are provided with the technical means “to verify the Treaty in a way that no test goes undetected.”
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged the international community speed up the entry into force of the CTBT, stressing it is indispensable to move forward on the disarmament agenda.
The CTBT bans all nuclear explosions in all environments, for military or civilian purposes. It was adopted by the General Assembly in September 1996 but has not yet entered into force.
Out of a total listed number of 195 States, 183 have so far signed the CTBT and 161 have ratified it.
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