Monday, March 27, 2017

UN Starts Talks on Global Nuclear Weapons Ban (Wrap)

Over 120 countries are getting together at the United Nations for the first ever talks aiming at a global ban on nuclear weapons.

The conference comes even as most of the world's declared and undeclared nuclear powers voted against the talks, saying they can't put nuclear deterrence in jeopardy.

Here's our correspondent at UN headquarters in New York, Lorna Shaddick.

IN: The countries leading...
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Speaking to reporters at UN Headquarters in New York on Monday, US Ambassador Nikki Haley said the disarmament talks could encourage rogue states:

IN: There is nothing...
OUT: ...ones at risk
DUR: 25 seconds 


Ambassador Haley told reporters at the UN on Monday that the US has responsibilities to defend other countries as well as itself:

IN: We've always said...
OUT: ...It's not. 
DUR: 16 seconds


US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley said the US wasn't alone in not participating in the talks:

IN: You are going...
OUT: ...not to have them
DUR: 22 seconds


Speaking at UN Headquarters, British Ambassador Matthew Rycroft said the UK has a commitment to nuclear disarmament, but the talks aren't the right way to go about it:

IN: We have a...
OUT: ...will not work
DUR: 25 seconds


Speaking at UN Headquarters, British Ambassador Matthew Rycroft said a gradual approach to getting rid of nuclear weapons had more chance of success:

IN: The British government...
OUT: ...to relinquish them
DUR: 29 seconds


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