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STORY: UN / EU6 DPRK
TRT: 1:47
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 08 OCTOBER 2019, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT – NEW YORK CITY
1.Wide shot, exterior, United Nations
08 OCTOBER 2019, NEW YORK CITY
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Nicolas de Rivière, Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations:
“French, Germany and UK request the meeting because of our deep collective concern about this launch. It follows a series of short-range ballistic missile launches in the past weeks. We reiterate our condemnation of these provocative actions, they undermine regional security and stability and they are in clear violation of UN Security Council Resolutions. We therefore welcome the productive discussion that we had today, it is vital that the Security Council uphold its Resolutions, international sanctions must remain in place and be fully and strictly enforced.”
3. Wide shot, reporters
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Nicolas de Rivière, Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations:
“The decisions of the Security Council are clear, the DPRK is under the obligation to abandon its programmes for the development of weapons of mass destruction, and of ballistic missiles in a complete, verifiable and irreversible manner. We urge the DPRK to engage in good faith, in meaningful negotiation with the United States, and to take concrete steps with the view to abandoning all weapons of mass destructions, and ballistic missile programmes in a complete, verifiable and irreversible manner. There is no other way to achieve security and stability on the Korean Peninsula and in the region.”
In a joint statement by European members of the Security Council, the countries condemned the recent Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)’s ballistic missile tests, which "undermine regional security and stability and they are in clear violation of UN Security Council Resolutions.”
Speaking today (08 Oct) on behalf of the European member of the Security Council French, Belgium, Germany, Poland, UK and Estonia as the incoming member of the Council, French Ambassador Nicolas de Rivière expressed the countries’ “deep collective concern” over a test of ballistic missile conducted by the DPRK which it claimed to be a submarine launched ballistic missile on 2 October.
The French Ambassador told reporters, “it is vital that the Security Council uphold its Resolutions, international sanctions must remain in place and be fully and strictly enforced.”
De Rivière continued, “the decisions of the Security Council are clear, the DPRK is under the obligation to abandon its programmes for the development of weapons of mass destruction, and of ballistic missiles in a complete, verifiable and irreversible manner.”
He added, “we urge the DPRK to engage in good faith, in meaningful negotiation with the United States, and to take concrete steps with the view to abandoning all weapons of mass destructions, and ballistic missile programmes in a complete, verifiable and irreversible manner.”
The French Ambassador reiterated, “there is no other way to achieve security and stability on the Korean Peninsula and in the region.”
French, Germany and UK requested a Security Council consultation following a series of short-range ballistic missile launches in the past weeks by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).
