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Foreign Minister of Kazakhstan and chairman-in-office for the OSCE Kanat Saudabayev welcomes the talks between the Russian Federation and the United States on a new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty. "We express our hope for a successful global nuclear security summit and the NPT Review Conference." UNTV

Duration:02:32Date:05 February 2010

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United Nations Television, POLITICAL AND LEGAL QUESTIONS, POLITICAL CONDITIONS, INSTITUTIONS, MOVEMENTS, DISARMAMENT AND MILITARY QUESTIONS, EUROPE

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STORY: UN / OSCE WRAP 
TRT: 2:32
SOURCE: UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: RUSSIAN / ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 5 FEBRUARY 2010, NEW YORK CITY

SHOTLIST:

RECENT 2010, NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, exterior, United Nations headquarters

5 FEBRUARY 2010, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Kanat Saudabayev, Foreign Minister of Kazakhstan, Chairman-in-Office for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE):
“We welcome the talks between the Russian Federation and the United States on a new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty. We express our hope for a successful global nuclear security summit and the NPT Review Conference.”
            4. Med shot, US Ambassador Rosemary DiCarlo taking notes
            5. Wide shot, Security Council Chamber, half horse shoe 
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Ambassador Rosemary DiCarlo, Alternate Representative for Special Political Affairs, Permanent Mission of the United States to the United Nations:
“Diverse and reliable energy supplies are important for the security of Europe, and the OSCE, with its comprehensive approach to security, is well-placed to highlight the links between energy and security. The United States has suggested developing news mechanisms through which any potential supply disruptions could be effectively dealt with on a political level.”
7. Wide shot, Security Council members
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Ambassador Philip John Parham, Deputy Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations:
“We urge Kazakhstan to continue to explore all options that would enable to re-establish OSCE presence in Georgia including the region of South Ossetia. We remain committed to the territorial integrity of Georgia with its internationally recognized borders.”
9.  Wide shot, Security Council
10. Med shot, Mr. Saudabayev handshake with Ambassador Vitaly Churkin, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation
            11. Wide shot, Minister Kanat Saudabayev approaching the microphone
            12. Close up, reporter taking notes 
13. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Kanat Saudabayev, Foreign Minister of Kazakhstan, Chairman-in-Office for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE):
“Kazakhstan have voluntarily renounced the world’s fourth largest nuclear arsenal and through its years of independency firmly adhered to the principals of nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation”.
14. Cutaway, reporter taking notes
15. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Kanat Saudabayev, Foreign Minister of Kazakhstan, Chairman-in-Office for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE):
“He ran over the person who died, he committed a criminal act under the Kazakh law and he was punished for that. Over the same period 200 other persons got punished for the same crime. So, this not the case of the human rights defender Zhovtis, but this is the case of Zhovtis who killed another person.”
16. Various shots, Kanat Saudabayev, Foreign Minister of Kazakhstan, Chairman-in-Office for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) meeting with the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon

STORYLINE:

The chairperson of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) today (5 February) Kanat Saudabayev told the Security Council that the chair’s main task for 2010 is promote a balance between the three OSCE “baskets,” political and military, economic and environmental, as well as human.

Commending the outcome of the Security Council Summit on nuclear non-proliferation, he said he would try to increase the OSCE’s contribution to achieving the goals of Council resolution 1540 (2004), welcoming in that regard the talks between the Russian Federation and the United States on a new strategic arms reduction treaty.

Addressing the issue of environmental threats, US Alternate Representative for Special Political Affairs Rosemary DiCarlo noted US’s commitment to work on those challenges including climate change and energy security. She stressed that diverse and reliable energy supplies are important for the security of Europe, and the OSCE, with its comprehensive approach to security and is well-placed to highlight the links between energy and security.

The United Kingdom’s Deputy ambassador Philip John Parham commended the Chair’s efforts to bring different parties in various protracted conflicts together. He expressed the UK’s commitment to an OSCE presence in Georgia, and stressed that the organization should study options for remaining there including the region of South Ossetia.

Following the meeting, Kanat Saudabayev briefed journalists outside the Council and said that on 15 February he will be visiting the Southern Caucasus region.

Asked by reporters on Iran’s plans to swap enriched uranium,  Saudabayev stressed Kazakhstan’s commitment to international nuclear non-proliferation rules. He noted that Kazakhstan had renounced the world’s forth largest nuclear and missile arsenal, which was inherited from the days when it was part of the Soviet Union.

Saudabayev also briefed about the proposal by his country to host a nuclear fuel bank. A fuel bank would be used to supply countries with enriched uranium for the civilian nuclear power facilities. It would  eliminate the need for individual countries to enrich their own uranium.

Last year Kazakhstan became the world’s largest producer of uranium.

Asked by the reporters about the human rights situation in Kazakhstan including a fairness of the trial of Kazakh human rights defender Yevgeny Zhovtis, he said that the sentence was based on charges arising from a traffic accident in which pedestrian was killed – “This not the case of the human rights defender Zhovtis, but this is the case of Zhovtis who killed another person.”

Zhovtis was sentenced last September to four years in prison for manslaughter. Human rights organizations were saying that the charges against Zhovtis were politically motivated.

When reporters asked to comment on the recent decision by Kazakh authorities to close some newspapers, Mr. Saudabayev declined to comment.

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