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STORY: UN / JAPAN FOREIGN MINISTER
TRT: 01:30
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 15 DECEMBER 2017, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Close up, exterior United Nations headquarters
15 DECEMBER, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, dais
3. Wide shot, journalists
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Taro Kono, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Japan:
“We will never accept a nuclear armed North Korea, and that nuclear missile development in flagrant violation of Security Council resolutions will never be tolerated. We also sent a unified message that it is essential for every United Nations member state to fully implement all the relevant Security Council resolutions.”
5. Med shot, journalists
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Taro Kono, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Japan:
“It is important not only for the Security Council, but also for the entire international community to maximise its pressure on North Korea, and to corner North Korea to change its policy.”
7. Wide shot, journalists
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Taro Kono, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Japan:
“The Security Council will need to be reformed and to enhance its legitimacy, effectiveness, and representation. The reform of the Security Council is an urgent task necessary for the Council to more effectively address threats to international peace and security, not only from the viewpoint of Japan’s aspirations to join the other permanent members.”
9. Wide shot, presser
The Foreign Minister of Japan, Taro Kono, told reporters today (15 Dec) in New York that Japan “will never accept a nuclear armed North Korea,” adding that “nuclear missile development in flagrant violation of Security Council resolutions will never be tolerated.”
Speaking to journalists after presiding a Security Council ministerial level Security Council debate on the situation of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK,) Kono said it was “important not only for the Security Council, but also for the entire international community to maximise its pressure on North Korea, and to corner North Korea to change its policy.”
Turning to Security Council reform, the Foreign Minister said, “the Security Council will need to be reformed and to enhance its legitimacy, effectiveness, and representation.”
He said, “the reform of the Security Council is an urgent task necessary for the Council to more effectively address threats to international peace and security, not only from the viewpoint of Japan’s aspirations to join the other permanent members.”
Japan’s two-year tenure as a non-permanent member of the Council ends on 31 December. Kono announced that Japan will be a candidate again for a non-permanent seat in 2022.
