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STORY: GENEVA / NPT-IRAN
TRT: 2.40
SOURCE: CH UNTV
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 23 APRIL 2013, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
FILE – RECENT – PALAIS DES NATIONS, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
1. Wide shot, exterior, Palais des Nations, Geneva
23 APRIL 2013, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
2. Wide shot, Assembly Hall
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Ambassador Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Permanent Representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations:
“In the continued existence of tens of thousands of nuclear warheads in the stockpile of the nuclear-weapon States, most of them on high-trigger alert and their day by day modernization constitute the most serious threat to the survival of mankind. We non-nuclear weapon states do not feel secure living under the blade of using, or threat of using of, nuclear weapons.”
4. Cutaway, Oman delegation
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Ambassador Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Permanent Representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations:
“My country along with the other non-nuclear weapon states of the NPT is demanding actual respect for exercise of their right to use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. Imposition of restrictions as a cover for implementation of the foreign policy objectives of certain States is a clear violation of Article IV obligations, and challenges both the integrity and credibility of the Treaty.”
6. Cutaway, Chinese delegation
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Ambassador Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Permanent Representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations:
“I declare that Islamic republic of Iran shall never compromise on its inalienable right for peaceful uses of nuclear energy, including the undeniable right for enrichment.”
8. Cutaway, US delegation
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Ambassador Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Permanent Representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations:
“Hostile policies of western countries, including dual track, carrot and stick, sanction and talk’s policies are doomed to failure. Sanctions, assassination of the nuclear scientists, the ugly phenomenon of this century, threat of attack by Zionist regime of Israel supported by its western allies, have and will strengthen the determination of Great Nation of Iran to pursue its right path.”
10. Cutaway, Japanese delegation
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Ambassador Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Permanent Representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations:
“Western countries are advised to change the gear from confrontation to cooperation, the window of opportunity to enter into negotiation for long term strategic cooperation with Iran, the most reliable, strong and stable partner in the region, is still open.”
12. Cutaway, table of delegates
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Ambassador Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Permanent Representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations:
“Iran has constantly and categorically rejected nuclear weapons and they have no place in its defense doctrine. Iran’s exclusively peaceful nuclear activities are perused in accordance with the rights and obligations enshrined in the NPT.”
14.Wide shot, Assembly Hall
Iran urged the West to take a less confrontational approach in talks on its nuclear programme and said on Tuesday that it could be a "reliable and stable partner" in the Middle East.
Ambassador Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Iran's Permanent Representative of Iran to the United Nations nuclear watchdog agency, today in Geneva said that current United States (US) and European policies, including extensive sanctions on the Islamic Republic, were bound to fail.
Soltanieh told a meeting of the United Nations on the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) that, "Western countries are advised to change gear from confrontation to cooperation, the window of opportunity to enter into negotiation for long-term strategic cooperation with Iran, the most reliable, strong and stable partner in the region, is still open."
The two-week Geneva preparatory committee meeting focuses on a range of issues to prepare the agenda for the 2015 Review Conference.
The NPT, a landmark international treaty which entered into force in 1970, aims to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy and to further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament and general and complete disarmament.
