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STORY: UN / NON-PROLIFERATION WMD
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SOURCE: UNIFEED - UNTV
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 7 MAY 2014, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
7 MAY 2014, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. Med shot, delegates
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Jan Eliasson, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations:
“For Resolution 1540 to work even more effectively, it must be a global commitment, a global enterprise. It is critical for every country to implement this resolution. Terrorists and traffickers tend to target countries whose customs, borders, imports, exports, ports and airports are less well or poorly monitored or controlled.”
5. Med shot, delegates
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Jan Eliasson, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations:
“Over 30,000 measures by States implementing the resolution have been reported to the 1540 Committee. This of course only tells part of the story. There have also been setbacks and there have been disappointments, including the recent use of chemical weapons in Syria.”
7. Med shot, delegates
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Yun Byung-Se, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea:
“The weakest link in nuclear non-proliferation, along with nuclear security and safety, is exposed by North Korea’s nuclear weapons programs. The DPRK is the only country in the world that has conducted nuclear tests in the 21st century. Notwithstanding the efforts of the international community, North Korea has continued to develop its nuclear weapons over the last two decades, and is now threatening it’s fourth nuclear test. If North Korea succeeds in acquiring nuclear weapons, it will seriously undermine the NPT regime and will exacerbate tension and instability in Northeast Asia.”
9. Med shot, delegates
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Ri Tong Il, Deputy Permanent Representative of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the United Nations:
“As long as the United States is keeping over 1,000 nuclear weapons; as long as it is increasing nuclear states blackmails against the DPRK, the DPRK’s already diversified nuclear strike means are targeted at the United States.”
11. Med shot, delegates
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Gholam-Hossein Dehghani, Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN:
“Iran firmly believes that every effort should be made in accordance with international law to rid the world from the menace of these inhuman weapons and to insure that such weapons do not fall in the hands of terrorists and non-state actors. At the same time, we believe that our efforts to prevent the potential threat of weapons of mass destruction falling into the hands of terrorists should not distract or attention from the real threat, namely the continued existence of thousands of nuclear weapons in stockpiles of nuclear weapons states.”
13. Wide shot, Council
Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson told the Security Council today (7 May) that it was “critical” for every country to implement resolution 1540, which requires Governments to prevent non-State actors or terrorists from acquiring, proliferating and using nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.
Eliasson said that for resolution 1540 to work even more effectively, “it must be a global commitment, a global enterprise” and noted that “terrorists and traffickers tend to target countries whose customs, borders, imports, exports, ports and airports are less well or poorly monitored or controlled.”
The Deputy Secretary-General, addressing an open debate commemorating the 10th anniversary of the resolution, said in the past decade, the landmark resolution has accomplished a great deal, but that there have also been setbacks, including the recent use of chemical weapons in Syria.
Yun Byung-Se, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea, which holds the Council presidency for the month of May, said “the weakest link in nuclear non-proliferation, along with nuclear security and safety, is exposed by North Korea’s nuclear weapons programs.”
He said that “if North Korea succeeds in acquiring nuclear weapons, it will seriously undermine the NPT regime and will exacerbate tension and instability in Northeast Asia.”
For his part, the DPRK’s Ambassador, Ri Tong Il, said that “as long as the United States is keeping over 1,000 nuclear weapons; as long as it is increasing nuclear states blackmails against the DPRK, the DPRK’s already diversified nuclear strike means are targeted at the United States.”
Iranian Ambassador Gholam-Hossein Dehghani, in his address to the Council said that “Iran firmly believes that every effort should be made in accordance with international law to rid the world from the menace of these inhuman weapons and to insure that such weapons do not fall in the hands of terrorists and non-state actors.”
At the same time, he added, Iran believes that “efforts to prevent the potential threat of weapons of mass destruction falling into the hands of terrorists should not distract or attention from the real threat, namely the continued existence of thousands of nuclear weapons in stockpiles of nuclear weapons states.”
The Council issued a presidential statement reaffirming that the proliferation of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons and their means of delivery constitute a threat to international peace and security.
The statement read that the Council remains gravely concerned by the threat of terrorism, and the risk that non-state actors may acquire, develop, traffic in or use nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons and their means of delivery and reaffirms that States shall take effective measures to prevent non-state actors from acquiring weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery and to establish domestic controls to prevent their proliferation.
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