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UN chief receives Carlos V European Award

STORY: UN chief receives Carlos V European Award DATELINE: May 10, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:59 LOCATION: Madrid CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of Antonio Guterres receiving Carlos V European Award 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Spanish): ANTONIO GUTERRES, UN Secretary-General 3. various of Guterres 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Spanish): ANTONIO GUTERRES, UN Secretary-General 5. various of Guterres and Spanish King Felipe VI STORYLINE: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres received the Carlos V European Award from King Felipe VI of Spain at a ceremony in the Yuste Monastery in the city of Caceres in western Spain on Tuesday. The award is given to those who "have contributed to the general understanding and appreciation of the cultural, scientific values, historians of Europe, as well as the process of unification of the European community." In his acceptance speech, Guterres called for peace, arguing that "diplomatic arsenals" rather than bullets should be used to help end the conflicts worldwide. SOUNDBITE 1 (Spanish): ANTON

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Antinuclear activists call for banning nukes at U.N.

NEW YORK, the United States - Hiroshi Takakusaki (L), a representative of the Japan Council against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs (Gensuikyo), presents a petition signed by heads of municipal governments in Japan calling for a complete ban on nuclear arsenals to Enrique Roman-Moray, who chairs the third session of the Preparatory Committee for the 2015 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, at U.N. headquarters in New York on May 2, 2014, with Angela Kane, the U.N. high representative for disarmament affairs, looking on.

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Japan mulled possessing nuke weapons in 1958

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows (from L) former Japanese Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi, former Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Hisanari Yamada and former U.S. Ambassador to Japan Douglas MacArthur II. Japanese officials in 1958 discussed an option for the country to possess ''defensive'' nuclear weapons as protection against the Soviet Union during the Cold War, and conveyed those talks to the United States, declassified U.S. archives showed March 16, 2013. That year, MacArthur told a meeting with U.S. defense and state department officials that then Japanese Prime Minister Kishi believed it was ''essential'' for Japan to have nuclear arsenals and Yamada, then Japan's vice foreign minister, told the envoy that Japanese Foreign Ministry officials discussed whether Tokyo should study and reach a decision on acquiring defensive nuclear weapons.

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Nuke accord adopted after resolving U.S.-Iraq rift

NEW YORK, United States - Delegates from the 187 states that have signed a global treaty controlling the spread of nuclear weapons unanimously adopted a landmark final document May 20 in which the world's five declared nuclear powers pledge to eliminate their nuclear arsenals. Under the chairmanship of Algeria's ambassador to the U.N., Abdallah Baali (C), the conference reached a compromise on the document's language after agreeing to soften criticism against Iraq.

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Countries with largest nuclear arsenals should reduce warheads first: Chinese official

STORY: Countries with largest nuclear arsenals should reduce warheads first: Chinese official DATELINE: Aug. 3, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:38 LOCATION: UN Headquarters CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. wide shot of UN GA Hall 2. wide shot of head of the Chinese delegation, also the director-general of the Department of Arms Control of the Chinese Foreign Ministry Fu Cong walking to rostrum 3. SOUNDBITE (Chinese/English interpretation): FU CONG, Head of the Chinese Delegation and Director-General of the Department of Arms Control of the Chinese Foreign Ministry 4. med shot of UN GA Hall STORYLINE: The countries with the largest nuclear arsenals should further conduct a significant and substantive reduction in their nuclear arsenals in a verifiable, irreversible and legally binding manner, said a Chinese disarmament official on Tuesday. The principles of "maintaining global strategic stability" and "undiminished security for all" should be followed in the practices of nuclear disarmament, Fu Cong told the 10th Rev

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