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STORY: UN / NUCLEAR WEAPONS NON-PROLIFERATION PRESSER
TRT: 03:39
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 27 APRIL 2026, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior UN Headquarters
27 APRIL 2026, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, press room dais
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Do Hung Viet, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Viet Nam:
“This Review Conference convenes at a particularly challenging time, and in many of my conversations with colleagues and experts, it is quite clear that we are, in fact, in the most difficult time, the most challenging time for the NPT regime itself.”
4. Wide shot, press room dais
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Do Hung Viet, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Viet Nam:
“This nomination was made a few months ago, but the concern about Iran's candidacy on emerged about a week ago. And, I have been engaged in very extensive discussions to try and find a solution for this issue. The nomination is the right of any state party and the right of any group to nominate their candidates.”
6. Wide shot, press room dais
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Do Hung Viet, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Viet Nam:
“So, what we have managed to do is to get the agreement of all the states parties that instead of asking for a vote, they would instead disassociate themselves from the decision made at the conference. So, again, this is an issue that only came out about a week ago. So, it is not reflective of the consultations that I have had over the past eight months.”
8. Med shot, journalist
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Do Hung Viet, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Viet Nam:
“Israel, together with India and Pakistan are mentioned at NPT review conferences. And there is a call for those countries to adhere to the NPT. And depending on the negotiations of the outcomes of this conference, this might be the case again. But there are continuous calls for those countries to join the NPT as non-nuclear weapon states.”
10. Med shot, journalist
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Do Hung Viet, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Viet Nam:
“I hesitate to say that it would be a success without an outcome, an agreed outcome, from this conference. But at the same time, if the conference is conducted smoothly, in an inclusive manner, where everyone is heard, everyone's view can be reflected. I think that is also, it can be characterized as a good conference. But again, I would not say it would be a success.”
12. Med shot, journalist
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Do Hung Viet, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Viet Nam:
“The danger of a nuclear war is seen and is felt, I think, much more concretely these days. Nuclear rhetoric and arms race, nuclear arms race, is really looming. The threat to use nuclear weapons have been floating up there. The modernization and expansion of nuclear arsenals and the violation of international law, the level of mistrust amongst major powers and regional countries. So, the stakes are very, very high, actually.”
14. Wide shot, end of briefing
The President of the NPT Review Conference, Viet Nam’s Ambassador Do Hung Viet, told journalists in New York that the danger of a nuclear war is “seen and is felt, I think, much more concretely these days” and said that without an outcome document from the Conference "I would not say it would be a success.”
As the 11th Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) got underway today (27 Apr), Do said it is convening “at a particularly challenging time,” and “the most challenging time for the NPT regime itself.”
Asked about Iran’s election as a conference’s vice-presidency, he said the nomination had been made “a few months ago, but the concern about Iran's candidacy on emerged about a week ago,” and noted that it is “the right of any state party and the right of any group to nominate their candidates.”
The Ambassador said, “what we have managed to do is to get the agreement of all the states parties that instead of asking for a vote, they would instead disassociate themselves from the decision made at the conference. So, again, this is an issue that only came out about a week ago. So, it is not reflective of the consultations that I have had over the past eight months.”
Asked about Israel status as a non-member of the NPT, he said “there are continuous” calls for Israel, India, and Pakistan “to join the NPT as non-nuclear weapon states.”
Responding to a question on what would constitute a success, Do said, “if the conference is conducted smoothly, in an inclusive manner, where everyone is heard, everyone's view can be reflected. I think that is also, it can be characterized as a good conference. But again, I would not say it would be a success.”
The Ambassador said, “nuclear rhetoric and arms race, nuclear arms race, is really looming. The threat to use nuclear weapons have been floating up there. The modernization and expansion of nuclear arsenals and the violation of international law, the level of mistrust amongst major powers and regional countries. So, the stakes are very, very high, actually.”
The 11th Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) is being held from 27 April to 22 May 2026 at United Nations Headquarters in New York
The NPT, in force since 1970 and extended indefinitely in 1995, is considered the cornerstone of the global nuclear non-proliferation regime.
