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STORY: UN / GUTERRES NUCLEAR WEAPONS
TRT: 1:13
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /NATS
DATELINE: 26 SEPTEMBER 2017, NEW YORK CITY
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1. Wide shot, exterior, UN Headquarters
26 SEPTEMBER 2017, NEW YORK CITY
2. Zoom out, Guterres walking to dais
3. Wide shot, meeting room
4. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has conducted a series of provocative nuclear and missile tests, heightening tensions and highlighting the dangers of proliferation. I again condemn these acts unequivocally, and I welcome the Security Council’s firm action on the situation as well as its desire for a peaceful, diplomatic and political solution.”
5. Pan right, meeting room
6. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“I acknowledge the significant efforts that nuclear-weapon States – especially the Russian Federation and the United States – have made in the past to reduce their arsenals and the role of nuclear weapons in their security. However, expensive modernization campaigns, combined with the absence of planned arsenal reductions beyond the New Start treaty, make it difficult to see how disarmament can make progress.”
7. Wide shot, meeting room
Speaking at an event on occasion of the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons marked on September 26, the United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres condemned “unequivocally” the DPRK’s “series of provocative nuclear and missile tests” which heightened “tensions and highlighting the dangers of proliferation.”
Guterres also welcomed the Security Council’s “firm action on the situation as well as its desire for a peaceful, diplomatic and political solution.”
Acknowledging the efforts made in past by the nuclear-weapons states – namely Russia and the US - to reduce their stockpiles of nuclear warheads and its role in countries’ security, Guterres said however “expensive modernization campaigns, combined with the absence of planned arsenal reductions beyond the New Start treaty, make it difficult to see how disarmament can make progress.”
In December 2013, the United Nations General Assembly declared 26 September the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapon in a resolution that called for the “urgent commencement of negotiations in the Conference on Disarmament for the early conclusion of a comprehensive convention on nuclear weapons to prohibit their possession, development, production, acquisition, testing, stockpiling, transfer and use or threat of use, and to provide for their destruction.”
