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STORY: IAEA / IRAN AMANO
TRT: 02:01
SOURCE: IAEA
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 17 NOVEMBER 2016, VIENNA, AUSTRIA
1. Wide shot, meeting
2. Med shot, Iran representative
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Yukiya Amano, IAEA Director General:
“For the second time since implementation of the JCPOA began, Iran’s inventory of heavy water exceeded 130 metric tonnes. Iran has since made preparations to transfer a quantity of heavy water out of the country, under the verification and monitoring of the Agency. Once it has been transferred, Iran’s stock of heavy water will be below 130 metric tonnes. It is important that such situations should be avoided in future in order to maintain international confidence in the implementation of the JCPOA.”
4. Pan left, from photographers to Amano
5. Wide shot, Amano at the podium
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Yukiya Amano, IAEA Director General:
“IAEA is a technical organization but we are working in a very important political environment, everyone knows. As a record, I expressed my concern many times in the past, in 2009, 2011, I kept on expressing concerns. But that concern is based on facts, this is important. We are not speculating; we are not reacting to rumors, but us we are the technical organization. We focus on facts and if these concerns make us to have concerns, we certainly share our concerns to other countries.”
7. Zoom out, Amano at the podium
Reporting on the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) verification and monitoring activities in Iran, IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano today (17 Nov) expressed concern that “for the second time” since implementation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) began, Iran’s inventory of heavy water exceeded the agreed limit of 130 metric tonnes.
Amano said “Iran has since made preparations to transfer a quantity of heavy water out of the country, under the verification and monitoring of the Agency.”
Once it has been transferred, he said Iran’s stock of heavy water will be below 130 metric tonnes.”
Amano stressed that “it is important that such situations should be avoided in future in order to maintain international confidence in the implementation of the JCPOA.”
Later, at a press conference, the IAEA chief said “IAEA is a technical organization but we are working in a very important political environment, everyone knows. As a record, I expressed my concern many times in the past, in 2009, 2011, I kept on expressing concerns. But that concern is based on facts, this is important. We are not speculating; we are not reacting to rumors, but us we are the technical organization. We focus on facts and if these concerns make us to have concerns, we certainly share our concerns to other countries.”
The Islamic Republic of Iran and the IAEA are parties to an Agreement for the Application of Safeguards in Connection with the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons which entered into force on 15 May 1974.
