UN / NUCLEAR MONITORING

Commenting on the missing plane from Malaysian airlines, the Head of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) said that if there was an explosion in the air, there is a possibility that the infrasound technology could have detected it. UNTV

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:05
• Production Date: 10 March 2014
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: COMPREHENSIVE NUCLEAR-TEST-BAN TREATY ORGANIZATION - CTBTO
• Subject Topical: PEACE AND SECURITY; NUCLEAR SCIENCE
• MAMS Id: U140310b

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STORY: UN / NUCLEAR MONITORING
TRT: 2.05
SOURCE: UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE 10 MARCH 2014, NEW YORK CITY

Shotlist

FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters

10 MARCH 2014, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, presser
3. Close up, photographer
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Lassina Zerbo, CTBTO Executive Secretary:
“Let’s take the scenario where there was an explosion at high altitude. There is a possibility –I am not saying it’s absolute- but there is a possibility that the technology like the infrasound could be able to detect. We don’t know, but I asked them to check the data and to get them back to me. This is a work that we do as part of the spin-off of the technology and the work our Nuclear Test Monitory. But indeed, for how an explosion of this kind, if there is a station near by or the explosion is at the level or at the amplitude that it could be detected, the infrasound technology would be the most suitable one. And this is something that we can check.”
5. Wide shot, journalists
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Lassina Zerbo, CTBTO Executive Secretary:
“China is showing again some leadership in terms of their commitment with the regard with the Comprhensive Test Ban Treaty and as China moves towards sending data, we hope that is only a step towards the ratification of China. As you know, we still need eight of the annex II countries -the forty four countries of nuclear technology- that have to ratify the CTBT prior to its entry to force.”
7. Med shot, presser
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Lassina Zerbo, CTBTO Executive Secretary:
“Among the P5, the nuclear power countries, we have China and the United States that are remaining. We are trying as much as we can to constructively push the remaining countries to join us in getting the CTBT into force because it is long due. It’s been nearly 20 years that this Treaty has been put for signature and then is yet to enter into force.”
9. Close up, photographer
10. Wide shot, press conference room

Storyline

Commenting on the missing plane from Malaysian airlines, the Head of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) said today (10 March) that if there was an explosion in the air, there is a possibility that the infrasound technology could have detected it.

Speaking to reporters in New York, Lassina Zerbo said “there is a possibility –I am not saying it’s absolute- but there is a possibility that the technology like the infrasound could be able to detect. We don’t know, but I asked them to check the data and to get them back to me.

He added “this is a work that we do as part of the spin-off of the technology and the work our Nuclear Test Monitory. But indeed, for how an explosion of this kind, if there is a station near by or the explosion is at the level or at the amplitude that it could be detected, the infrasound technology would be the most suitable one. And this is something that we can check.”

Regarding the latest progress on Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty , Zerbo stressed that since last September there has been a quite significant achievement in China, where now the International Monitoring System in the Chinese territory is sending data.

Zerbo said “China is showing again some leadership in terms of their commitment with the regard with the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and as China moves towards sending data, we hope that is only a step towards the ratification of China. As you know, we still need eight of the annex II countries -the forty four countries of nuclear technology- that have to ratify the CTBT prior to its entry into force.”

He explained that the eleven stations across the Chinese territory have been built during the last ten years.

He added “among the P5, the nuclear power countries, we have China and the United States that are remaining. We are trying as much as we can to constructively push the remaining countries to join us in getting the CTBT into force because it is long due. It’s been nearly 20 years that this Treaty has been put for signature and then is yet to enter into force.”

The eight countries that still haven't ratify the Treaty are United States, China, India, Israel, Egypt, Democratic Popular Republic of Korea and Iran.