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STORY: UN / POMPEO
TRT: 03:50
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 20 JULY 2018, NEW YORK CITY / RECENT
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
20 JULY 2018, NEW YORK CITY
2. Various shots, US Secretary 0f State Mike Pompeo arriving at UN Headquarters
3. Various shots, Pompeo meeting with Secretary-General António Guterres
4. Pan left, Pompeo and Ambassador Nikki Haley walk up to podium
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Mike Pompeo, Secretary of State, United States:
“The countries of the Security Council are united on the need for final, fully verified denuclearization in North Korea as agreed to by Chairman Kim. Strict enforcement of sanctions is critical for our achieving this goal. Members of the UN Security Council and by extension all UN member states have unanimously agreed to fully enforced sanctions on North Korea and we expect them to continue to honour those commitments.”
6. Wide shot, Pompeo and Haley
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Mike Pompeo, Secretary of State, United States:
“Right now, North Korea is illegally smuggling petroleum products into the country at a level that far exceeds the quotas established by the United Nations. These illegal ship-to-ship transfers are the most prominent means by which this is happening. These transfers happened at least 89 times in the first five months of this year and they continue to occur.”
8. Wide shot, Pompeo and Haley
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Mike Pompeo, Secretary of State, United States:
“President Trump remains upbeat about the prospects of denuclearization of North Korea. So do I, as progress is happening. It is the Trump administration’s hope that one day the DPRK could be in our midst here at the United Nations, not as a pariah, but as a friend. Imagine UN Security Council meetings in which the DPRK nuclear and missile programme are not in the agenda time and time again.”
10. Wide shot, Pompeo and Haley
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Mike Pompeo, Secretary of State, United States:
“There are many places where the Russians have been helpful. Certainly, since the very beginning of the time the UN Security Council resolutions the Russians have done many things to enforce the sanctions and we are deeply appreciative of that. What we need now though is we need to continue that. We need to make sure that the world doesn’t begin to see this. This is not an American demand for the North Korean’s to denuclearize. It is the world’s demand and we need the world to continue to participate. So, where we find issues where any country, whether it’s Russia or another one not doing their part to enforce it, we are going to make sure that we provide the information to them, so they can all see it, the world can see it, and we are going to demand that every country in the world do their part.”
12. Wide shot, Pompeo and Haley
SOUNDBITE (English) Mike Pompeo, Secretary of State, United States:
“We have our senior leaders meeting all across the world with people that we have deep disagreements with. It is incredibly valuable to the people of the United States of America that President Putin and President Trump continue to engage in dialogue to resolve the difficult issues that our countries face between each other. I think this makes enormous sense and I am very hopeful that meeting will take place this fall.”
13. Wide shot, Pompeo and Haley
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Mike Pompeo, Secretary of State, United States:
“There was a discussion between President Trump and President Putin about the resolution in Syria and how we may get the refugees back. The President shared with me the conversations that they had. It is important to the world that at the right time through a voluntary mechanism these refugees are able to return to their home country. It’s we have all been working on, it is what the UN has been working on, Stephan De Mistura has been working on that very same problem, and President Putin and President Trump did discuss that. There is a lot of work to do to figure out how to implement that but the United States certainly wants to be part of help achieving that resolution in Syria.”
15. Pan left, Pompeo and Haley walk away
After a meeting with Secretary-General António Guterres at UN Headquarters today (20 Jul), the United States Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo told reporters “the countries of the Security Council are united on the need for final, fully verified denuclearization in North Korea as agreed to by Chairman Kim.”
Pompeo stressed that “strict enforcement of sanctions is critical for our achieving this goal” and noted that “right now, North Korea is illegally smuggling petroleum products into the country at a level that far exceeds the quotas established by the United Nations.”
These “illegal ship-to-ship transfers,” he said, “happened at least 89 times in the first five months of this year and they continue to occur.”
Pompeo said US President Donald Trump “remains upbeat about the prospects of denuclearization of North Korea” and added that it was the Trump administration’s hope “that one day the DPRK could be in our midst here at the United Nations, not as a pariah, but as a friend. Imagine UN Security Council meetings in which the DPRK nuclear and missile programme are not in the agenda time and time again.”
The Secretary of State said “there are many places where the Russians have been helpful” in enforcing the sanctions on the DPRK, but added that “where we find issues where any country, whether it’s Russia or another one not doing their part to enforce it, we are going to make sure that we provide the information to them, so they can all see it, the world can see it, and we are going to demand that every country in the world do their part.”
On the announcement that President Trump will be meeting Russian president Vladimir Putin at the White House in the fall, Pompeo said “we have our senior leaders meeting all across the world with people that we have deep disagreements with. It is incredibly valuable to the people of the United States of America that President Putin and President Trump continue to engage in dialogue to resolve the difficult issues that our countries face between each other. I think this makes enormous sense and I am very hopeful that meeting will take place this fall.”
He said that in during their Helsinki meeting, the two presidents discussed “the resolution in Syria and how we may get the refugees back.”
He said it was “important to the world that at the right time through a voluntary mechanism these refugees are able to return to their home country” and added that “there is a lot of work to do to figure out how to implement that but the United States certainly wants to be part of help achieving that resolution in Syria.”
