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2009-09-24
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  1. “Words alone will not get the job done, but with our having affirmed our stated goal, I am confident that if we are diligent we can in fact move this process forward and provide the sort of peace and security for our children and our grandchildren that all of us so desperately want. I want to thank all of you, again, for your participation. The meeting rose at 11.20 am.”

    2009-09-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6191 (2009) · source

  2. “There are no other speakers inscribed on my list. I want to thank all the participants for their contributions to this meeting. My thanks go particularly to all the distinguished heads of State and Government, the Secretary-General and the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency. The statements that we heard today, I think, affirm our commitment to a difficult but achievable goal. I am inspired and encouraged by the seriousness with which all of you have approached this question. I am extraordinarily encouraged by the unanimous adoption of the resolution.”

    2009-09-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6191 (2009) · source

  3. “I shall now give the floor to the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mr. Mohamed ElBaradei, in accordance with rule 39 of the provisional rules of procedure of the Council.”

    2009-09-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6191 (2009) · source

  4. “I now invite His Excellency The Right Honourable Gordon Brown, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, to take the floor.”

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  5. “I now invite the President of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam, His Excellency Mr. Nguyen Minh Triet, to take the floor.”

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  6. “I thank the Secretary-General for his statement. I now invite His Excellency Mr. Oscar Arias Senchez, President of the Republic of Costa Rica, to take the floor.”

    2009-09-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6191 (2009) · source

  7. “In accordance with the understanding reached among Council members, I wish to remind all speakers to limit their statements to no more than five minutes in order to enable the Council to carry out its work expeditiously. Delegations with lengthy statements are kindly requested to circulate their texts in writing and to deliver a condensed version when speaking in the Chamber. I now invite the Secretary-General, His Excellency Mr. Ban Ki-moon, to take the floor.”

    2009-09-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6191 (2009) · source

  8. “In my own country, it has brought together Democratic and Republican leaders like George Schultz, Bill Perry, Henry Kissinger and Sam Nunn, who are with us here today. It was a Republican President, Ronald Reagan, who once articulated the goal that we now seek in the starkest of terms: "A nuclear war cannot be won, and must never be fought". And no matter how great the obstacles may seem, we must never stop our efforts to reduce the weapons of war. We must never stop until we see the day when nuclear arms have been banished from the face of the Earth. That is our task. That can be our destiny. We 09-52314 will leave this meeting with a renewed determination to achieve that shared goal.”

    2009-09-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6191 (2009) · source

  9. “In January, we will call upon countries to begin negotiations on a treaty to end the production of fissile material for weapons. The non-proliferation Treaty Review Conference in May will strengthen that agreement. We harbour no illusions about the difficulty of bringing about a world without nuclear weapons. We know that there are plenty of cynics and that there will be setbacks that prove their point, but there will also be days like today that push us forward and tell a different story. It is the story of a world that understands that no difference or division is worth destroying all that we have built and all that we love. It is a recognition that can bring people of different nationalities, ethnicities and ideologies together.”

    2009-09-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6191 (2009) · source

  10. “I would like to be clear that this is not about singling out individual nations. It is about standing up for the rights of all nations that live up to their responsibilities. The world must stand together. We must demonstrate that international law is not an empty promise and that treaties will be enforced. The next 12 months will be absolutely critical in determining whether this resolution and our overall efforts to stop the spread and use of nuclear weapons are successful. A11 nations must do their part to make this work. In America, I have promised that we will pursue a new agreement with Russia to substantially reduce our strategic warheads and launchers. We will move forward with the ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty and open the door to deeper cuts in our arsenal.”

    2009-09-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6191 (2009) · source

  11. “It calls on all States to freeze any financial assets that are being used for proliferation, and for stronger safeguards to reduce the likelihood that peaceful nuclear weapons programmes can be diverted to a weapons programme. The resolution that we passed today will also strengthen the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. We have made it clear that the Security Council has both the authority and the 09-52314 responsibility to respond to violations of that Treaty. We have made it clear that the Security Council has both the authority and the responsibility to determine and respond as necessary when violations of the Treaty threaten international peace and security. That includes full compliance with Security Council resolutions on Iran and North Korea.”

    2009-09-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6191 (2009) · source

  12. “It reflects the agenda that I outlined in Prague and builds on a consensus that all nations have the right to peaceful nuclear energy, that nations with nuclear weapons have the responsibility to move towards disarmament, and that those without them have the responsibility to forsake them. Today, the Security Council endorsed a global effort to lock down all vulnerable nuclear materials within four years. The United States will host a summit next April to advance that goal and to help all nations achieve it. This resolution will also help strengthen the institutions and initiatives that combat the smuggling, financing and theft of proliferation-related materials.”

    2009-09-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6191 (2009) · source

  13. “Just one nuclear weapon exploded in a city - be it New York, Moscow, Tokyo, Beijing, London or Paris - could kill hundreds of thousands of people, and would greatly destabilize our security, our economies and our very way of life. Once again, the United Nations has a pivotal role to play in preventing such a crisis. The historic resolution that we have just adopted enshrines our shared commitment to the goal of a world without nuclear weapons, and it brings Security Council agreement on a broad framework for action to reduce nuclear dangers as we work towards that goal.”

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  14. “In the more than six decades that this Security Council has been in existence, only four other meetings of this nature have been convened. I called for this meeting so that we may address, at the highest level, a fundamental threat to the security of all peoples and all nations - the spread and use of nuclear weapons. As I said yesterday (see A/64/PV.3), this very institution was founded at the dawn of the atomic age, in part because man's capacity to kill had to be contained, and although we averted a nuclear nightmare during the cold war, we now face proliferation of a scope and complexity that demands new strategies and new approaches.”

    2009-09-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6191 (2009) · source

  15. “In accordance with the understanding reached in the Council's prior consultations, the Security Council will take action on the draft resolution before it prior to hearing statements from the Secretary-General and Council members. Accordingly, I shall put the draft resolution to the vote now. There being no objection, it is so decided. A vote was taken by show of hands. In favour: Austria, Burkina Faso, China, Costa Rica, Croatia, France, Japan, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Mexico, Russian Federation, Turkey, Uganda, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America, Viet Nam. The President: There were 15 votes in favour. The draft resolution has been adopted unanimously as resolution 1887 (2009). I want to thank again everybody who is in attendance, and I wish them all good morning.”

    2009-09-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6191 (2009) · source

  16. “I wish to warmly welcome the heads of State and Government, the Secretary-General, the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, ministers and other representatives present in the Security Council Chamber. Their presence is an affirmation of the importance of the subject matter to be discussed. The Security Council summit will now begin its consideration of the item on its agenda. Members of the Council have before them document S/2009/473, which contains the text of a draft resolution prepared in the course of the Council's prior consultations. I should like to draw the attention of Council members' of the Council to document S/2009/463, containing a letter dated 15 September 2009 from the United States of America transmitting a concept paper on the item under consideration.”

    2009-09-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6191 (2009) · source