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STORY: GA / NUCLEAR BAN
TRT: 02:22
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / JAPANESE / NATS
DATELINE: 27 MARCH 2017, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
27 MARCH 2017, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, General Assembly Hall
3. Med shot, delegates
4. Wide shot, High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Kim Won-soo walks up to podium
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Kim Won-soo, Under Secretary-General and High Representative for Disarmament Affairs:
“The long paralysis in the United Nations disarmament bodies has prompted many to retreat to entrenched and inflexible positions. This has unfortunately become the new normal. Yet, history has proven that progress on disarmament can only be made when we can pursue inclusive dialogue, respect our differences, and listen to each other in a spirit of compromise and flexibility.”
6. Med shot, delegates
7. Wide shot, Acting GA President Masud Bin Momen walks up to podium
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Masud Bin Momen, Acting President of the General Assembly:
“As with any major intergovernmental process, sensitive and complex issues will be raised, but with vision, determination, political will, and the willingness to work together to find common ground, this hurdles can be overcome and a solution that is acceptable to all, can be reached. Indeed, all governments have previously committed to pursuing precisely this aim, working towards a world free of nuclear weapons.”
9. Med shot, delegates
10. Wide shot, nuclear weapon survivor Toshiki Fujimori walks up to podium
11. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Toshiki Fujimori, Deputy Secretary-General of the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations (Nihon Hidankyo):
“210,000 people died by the end of 1945 in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Beneath the mushroom clouds Hibakusha experienced hell on earth. In fact Hibakusha suffering has continued until today, 27 March, 2017, for 26,166 days. No one, in no country, deserves seeing the same hell on earth again.”
8. Zoom out, end of session
United Nations officials today (27 Mar) called for flexibility in order to find to common ground and reach an agreement on the prohibition of nuclear weapons.
The General Assembly is holding a conference to negotiate a legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons, leading towards their total elimination. Ambassadors from the United States, United Kingdom and France earlier manifested their opposition to negotiations towards such an agreement.
The Under Secretary-General and High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Kim Won-soo, told the Assembly that “the long paralysis in the United Nations disarmament bodies has prompted many to retreat to entrenched and inflexible positions.”
Kim said that this “has unfortunately become the new normal.”
He said that “that progress on disarmament can only be made when we can pursue inclusive dialogue, respect our differences, and listen to each other in a spirit of compromise and flexibility.”
Acting GA President Masud Bin Momen said that “with vision, determination, political will, and the willingness to work together to find common ground, this hurdles can be overcome and a solution that is acceptable to all, can be reached.”
Bin Momen noted that “all governments have previously committed to pursuing precisely this aim, working towards a world free of nuclear weapons.”
Also addressing the Conference, Toshiki Fujimori, a Hiroshima survivor who is the Deputy Secretary-General of the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations (Nihon Hidankyo), said that “no one, in no country, deserves seeing the same hell on earth again.”
The Conference is being held in New York from 27 to 31 March and from 15 June to 7 July. The Conference held a one-day organizational session in New York on 16 February 2017.
A legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons would establish general prohibitions and obligations as well as a political commitment to achieve and maintain a nuclear-weapon-free world.
