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STORY: UN / NPT CONFERENCE WRAP
TRT: 3.18
SOURCE: UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / ARABIC / SPANISH / NATS
DATELINE: 05 MAY 2010, NEW YORK
RECENT 2010, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
05 MAY 2010, NEW YORK
2. Wide shot, General Assembly Hall
3. Wide shot, Lebanese Ambassador Nawaf Salam approaches the podium
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ambassador Nawaf Salam, Permanent Representative of Lebanon, United Nations:
“The memory of our failure in 2005 is still vivid in our minds, and another setback during the current review conference is a possibility we cannot afford.”
5. Cutaway, Lebanese delegates
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Ambassador Nawaf Salam, Permanent Representative of Lebanon, United Nations:
“Achieving the goal of a world without nuclear weapons can only be done is the total number of nuclear weapons is known and if the nuclear-weapons States make their disarmament efforts public.”
7. Wide shot, Kuwaiti Ambassador Mansour Al Otaibi approaches podium
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ambassador Mansour Al Otaibi, Permanent Representative of Kuwait, United Nations:
“Israel the only state in the Middle East still persists in refusing to accede to NPT and subjecting its nuclear facilities to IAEA safeguards; this impedes the implementation and the universality of the NPT and prompts other non nuclear weapons states to resort to manufacturing or acquiring nuclear weapons on the pretext of turning a blind eye to or lax in dealing with non nuclear weapons states and subjecting their installations to full inspection. This unique Israeli situation is a cause for concern as standing in the way of rendering the Middle East a non nuclear weapon free zone.”
9. Med shot, Kuwaiti delegates
10. Wide shot, Ambassador Hamid Al-Bayati approaches the podium
11. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hamid Al-Bayati, Permanent Representative of Iraq, United Nations:
“Failing to implement the resolution of 1995 which called for the establishments of a nuclear free-zone in the Middle East would perpetuate instability and tension in the region and would add to the complexities related to the universal adherence to the treaty.”
12. Cutaway, delegates
13. Wide shot, Syrian Ambassador Bashar Ja’afari approaches the podium
14. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ambassador Bashar Ja’afari, Permanent Representative of Syria, United Nations:
“The need to implement the Middle East resolution which calls for establishing nuclear weapons free zone; second placing all nuclear facilities in the Middle East under the comprehensive safeguards of the agency (IAEA); third, the need for this review conference to take into consideration the legitimate security concerns of the Arab states; forth, urging the parties, particularly nuclear weapons states in the framework of their responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security to bring pressure to bare upon Israel, calling upon it to accede to the treaty as a non nuclear weapons state with no condition or restriction.
15. Wide shot, General Assembly
The United Nations (U.N) continued today (5 May) with its third day of the Review Conference of the Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT) at its headquarters in New York.
Middle East states continued raising today their call for the implementation of the failed 1995 resolution calling for a Middle East nuclear-free zone, the universality of the NPT and for Israel to accede to the treaty.
Lebanon’s Ambassador Nawaf Salam said that that the memory of 2005 conference failure for not reaching consensus on many substantive issues of the treaty was "still vivid in our minds" and that another setback in the current review conference was a, "possibility we cannot afford.”
He also reminded delegates that achieving the goal of a world without nuclear weapons could turn into reality if only the total number of nuclear weapons was known and nuclear-weapons States made their disarmament efforts public.
Kuwait’s UN Ambassador Mansour Al Otaibi said that Israel was the only state in the Middle East refusing to accede to the NPT and subjecting its nuclear facilities to the International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards, and that decision, he said impeded the implementation and the universality of the NPT, while prompting other non-nuclear weapons states to resort to manufacturing or acquiring nuclear weapons on the pretext of turning a blind eye to subjecting their installations to full inspection.
Any weapons escalation in the Middle East would have far reaching consequences for international peace and security said Iraq’s Ambassador Hamid Al-Bayati and added that failing to implement the 1995 resolution which called for the establishment of a nuclear free-zone in the Middle East would perpetuate instability and tension in the region.
Meanwhile Syria’s Ambassador Bashar Ja’afari called on the international community to exert pressure on Israel to implement the resolutions of international legitimacy as a major step towards achieving regional and international peace and security.
