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STORY: IAEA / GROSSI BOARD OF GOVERNORS
TRT: 2:56
SOURCE: IAEA
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 04 MARCH 2024, VIENNA, AUSTRIA
1. Various shots, conference room
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director General:
“Loose talk about nuclear weapons, assembled, disassembled, ready to use or not are incredibly worrying for me. All countries that have signed the nuclear non-proliferation treaty are not supposed to have nuclear weapons in any form. It's not a matter of desiring to assemble them or disassemble them. This is forbidden in international law. So I take this very, very seriously, and I hope we can work together to sustain this regime that we have, which is so important.”
3. Wide shot, conference room
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director General:
“As you can see, there is a lot a lot of military activity in the closed vicinity of the plant. So, this is the reason why you may have noted a few days ago, I issued a specific message calling for maximum restraint in this regard. My important consultations in Kyiv were in this regard very, very important. And as I sat there, and I say it here to you, I intend to continue these important consultations in Russia this week.”
5. Wide shot, conference room
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director General:
“My reports are very clear in this regard. We are not in the place I would like us to be. And when I say us, is Iran, is myself, is all of us here. We are not moving forward, and we should, we must move forward in the clarification of the many aspects that require this clarification from Iran. So, I intend to continue these consultations at the highest possible level, if possible so that we can move this thing forward.”
7. Various shots, conference room
8. Wide shot, Grossi at press conference
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director General:
“There is a very concerning sort of domino thing about nuclear weapons or the potential accession to nuclear weapons that it is very concerning. And I think this must be stopped. And this is why I, as Director-General of the IAEA and and guardian of the operational aspects of the NPT must remind everybody at least those in standing hopefully in good standing with the NPT that these are obligations. These are legal obligations they have. We all have an obligation if we are within the NPT too respected. Nuclear weapons are not acceptable.”
10. Wide shot, Grossi leaving press conference
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General, Rafael Mariano Grossi, said, “Loose talk about nuclear weapons, assembled, disassembled, ready to use or not are incredibly worrying,” reiterating that “all countries that have signed the nuclear non-proliferation treaty are not supposed to have nuclear weapons in any form.”
The IAEA Director General today (04 Mar) made his introductory statement to the Board of Governors.
Grossi recalled his recent visit to the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), he noted reports of rounds of fire from close to the the Plant and also some other events related to the presence apparently of drones in the vicinity.
He said, “As you can see, there is a lot a lot of military activity in the closed vicinity of the plant. So, this is the reason why you may have noted a few days ago, I issued a specific message calling for maximum restraint in this regard. My important consultations in Kyiv were in this regard very, very important. And as I sat there, and I say it here to you, I intend to continue these important consultations in Russia this week.”
Grossi is expected to visit Russia this week.
On Iran, the Director General said, “We are not in the place I would like us to be. And when I say us, is Iran, is myself, is all of us here. We are not moving forward, and we should, we must move forward in the clarification of the many aspects that require this clarification from Iran. So, I intend to continue these consultations at the highest possible level, if possible so that we can move this thing forward.”
Asked at a press encounter about the situation in the Middle East, Grossi said,“There is a very concerning sort of domino thing about nuclear weapons or the potential accession to nuclear weapons that it is very concerning. And I think this must be stopped.”
“As Director General of the IAEA and and guardian of the operational aspects of the NPT must remind everybody at least those in standing hopefully in good standing with the NPT that these are obligations. These are legal obligations they have. We all have an obligation if we are within the NPT too respected. Nuclear weapons are not acceptable,” the IAEA chief reiterated.
