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STORY: UN / DPRK
TRT: 03:17
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ARABIC / CHINESE / ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 29 AUGUST 2017, NEW YORK CITY
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, UNHQ exterior
29 AUGUST 2017, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. Wide shot, Haley speaking to Lui before meeting
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Amr Abdellatif Aboulatta, Permanent Representative of Egypt to the United Nations:
“The Security Council further condemns the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) for its outrageous actions and demands that the DPRK immediately cease all such actions. The Security Council stresses that these DPRK actions are not just a threat to the region, but to all UN Member States.”
5. Pan left, Security Council
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Amr Abdellatif Aboulatta, Permanent Representative of Egypt to the United Nations:
“The Security Council expresses its grave concern that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is, by conducting such a launch over Japan as well as its recent actions and public statements, deliberately undermining regional peace and stability and have caused grave security concerns around the world.”
7. Wide shot, Security Council
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Amr Abdellatif Aboulatta, Permanent Representative of Egypt to the United Nations:
“The Security Council further demands that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea immediately comply fully with all of its other obligations under all relevant Security Council resolutions, including that it shall : abandon all nuclear weapons and existing nuclear programmes in a complete, verifiable and irreversible manner, and immediately cease all related activities; not conduct any further nuclear tests or any further provocation; and abandon any other existing weapons of mass destruction in a complete, verifiable, and irreversible manner.”
9. Pan left, Security Council
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Nikki Haley, Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations:
“The world is united against North Korea. There is no doubt about that. It is time for the North Korean regime to recognize the danger they are putting themselves in. The United States will not allow their lawlessness to continue and the rest of the world is with us.”
11. Med shot, Egyptian ambassador
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Koro Bessho, Permanent Representative of Japan to the United Nations:
“This demonstrates the unity of the Security Council and sends a strong and clear message to North Korea that the international community will not accept its reckless behaviour. We urge North Korea to respond immediately to this call by the international community.”
13. Wide shot, Security Council
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Liu Jieyi, Permanent Representative of China to the United Nations:
“China stands opposed to any chaos or war on the Peninsula. Enhancing military deployment on the Peninsula will not help towards achieving the goal of denuclearization or regional stability. The deployment of the THAAD system in north-east Asia severely jeopardizes the regional strategic balance, undermining the strategic security interests of all regional countries including China. It will further escalate tension on the Peninsula making the issue more complicated and intractable.”
15. Wide shot, Security Council
The United Nations Security Council strongly condemned today (29 Aug) the North Korean ballistic missile launch which flew over Japan adding that the country is “deliberately undermining regional peace and stability.”
In a Presidential Statement read by Egyptian ambassador Amr Aboulatta, the Council condemned the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) for its “outrageous actions” and stressed that these actions “are not just a threat to the region, but to all UN Member States.” The Council demanded that the DPRK immediately abandon all nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction “in a complete, verifiable and irreversible manner.” The Security Council reiterated the importance of maintaining peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula and in north-east Asia at large and expressed its commitment to a peaceful, diplomatic and political solution to the situation.
United States ambassador Nikki Haley said all 15 members of the Security Council have spoken in unison in demanding that North Korea stop any future missile launches and abandon its nuclear weapons. She stressed that the United States “will not allow” North Korea’s “lawlessness” adding that the “rest of the world is with us.” She said, “The world is united against North Korea; there is no doubt about that. It is time for the North Korean regime to recognize the danger they are putting themselves in.”
Japanese ambassador Koro Bessho welcomed the Presidential Statement adding that it “demonstrates the unity of the Security Council and sends a strong and clear message to North Korea that the international community will not accept its reckless behaviour.” He urged North Korea to “respond immediately to this call by the international community.”
Chinese ambassador Liu Jieyi said his country opposes the DPRK’s launch actions which are in violation of Security Council resolutions. He called on all parties to exercise restraint and avoid provocative actions which could exacerbate the situation. Liu called for the resumption of the six party talks (China, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Russia, and the United States) adding that China is committed to the denuclearization of the Korea Peninsula. He said China opposes “any chaos or war on the Peninsula” and stressed that “enhancing military deployment on the Peninsula will not help towards achieving the goal of denuclearization or regional stability.” Lui said the deployment of the THAAD system in north-east Asia “severely jeopardizes the regional strategic balance” and will further “escalate tension on the Peninsula making the issue more complicated and intractable.”
