GENEVA / IRAN NUCLEAR TALKS

Officials from Iran, the European Union, the five permanent members of the United Nations (UN) Security Council and Germany began talks at the United Nations in Geneva on Tuesday (15 Oct). CH UNTV

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:00:51
• Production Date: 16 October 2013
• Asset Language: Original
• Subject Topical: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; PEACE AND SECURITY; DISARMAMENT; NUCLEAR SCIENCE
• Geographic Subject: IRAN; SWITZERLAND
• MAMS Id: U131016g

Description

STORY: GENEVA/ IRAN NUCLEAR TALKS
TRT:0.51
SOURCE: UNTV CH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: / NATS

DATELINE: 15 OCTOBER 2013 GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

Shotlist

1. Wide shot, exterior, Palais des Nations, Geneva
2. Med shto, Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammed, Javed Zarif and European Union High Representative, Catherine Ashton
3. Various shots,delegations at opening of meeting on Iran's nuclear programme at Palais des Nations, Geneva

Storyline

The Iran nuclear talks continued for a second day in Geneva, with Iran giving a number of proposals to end the deadlock.

Officials from Iran, the European Union, the five permanent members of the United Nations (UN) Security Council and Germany began the talks at the United Nations in Geneva on Tuesday (15 Oct).

The meeting, the first in six months,is the latest in a series trying to end an impasse centred around suspicions that Iran is developing a nuclear bomb and UN sanctions aimed at stopping it.

States that are parties to the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty aimed at halting the development of atomic weapons agree to develop nuclear technology for peaceful purposes only, to report nuclear activities to the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency, the IAEA and to allow the agency's inspectors to examine their facilities, under a safeguards agreement.

Following IAEA reports, in 2006,the UN Security Council ordered Iran to stop enriching uranium and subsequently imposed sanctions for non-compliance with IAEA safeguards. The Council has adopted six resolutions on the matter in the past seven years.

Iran continues to enrich uranium, maintaining that its nuclear programme is not aimed at producing weapons and is in keeping with its right to develop nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.

Intermittent discussions throughout the years have not produced an agreement.

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