CRI听力:Nuclear Security Summit Explore Int'l Commitment

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte says the two-day summit will identify ways of preventing nuclear terrorism around the world.

"We need to do everything we can to prevent nuclear terrorism and we have gathered here with that clear aim. I endorse this view that nuclear terrorism is one of the greatest threats to international security. All the more so, since there are relatively few binding international agreements in this area. The one to gain the least from this comes to nuclear security, we can definitely do better."

Themes of the summit are limiting the amount of dangerous nuclear material in the world, improving the security of all nuclear material and radioactive sources that already exist and stepping up international cooperation in these areas.

Chinese President Xi Jinping will attend the summit. It will be his first appearance at the NSS, demonstrating China's diplomatic efforts in the nuclear security arena and introducing China's measures to strengthen nuclear security and progress.

Chen Xu is the Chinese Ambassador to the Netherlands.

"China has been actively advocating fruitful international cooperation to prevent the proliferation of nuclear material and jointly combat nuclear terrorism. President Xi Jinping is looking to play an active and pragmatic role in the Nuclear Security Summit. China will continue to play a bigger role within international cooperation on nuclear security, actively and constructively, and based on present achievements."

Leaders from a total of 53 countries and four international organizations will be taking part in the summit this year.

The first Nuclear Security Summit was held in Washington, D.C. in 2010. The second summit was held in Seoul during 2012.

The 2014 summit will chart the accomplishments of the past two years, identifying which of the objectives set out in the Washington Work Plan and the Seoul Communiqué have not been met and proposing ways to achieve them.

Netherlands Ambassador Piet De Klerk is the lead coordinator and chief negotiator of the Dutch Nuclear Security Summit.

"In the Hague, a communiqué will be the outcome in which we raise the bar of the commitment of the different countries, I think the political commitment of all the leaders coming to the Hague is very important, and I'll assume that the commitments are significant and will lead to important changes in the years to come."

Over the past decade, the amount of fissile material in the world has grown rapidly, particularly in countries like Pakistan and India. There have also been a number of nuclear material thefts, mostly in the former Soviet Union.

In 2013, 146 incidents involving nuclear and radioactive material were reported to the IAEA; most of these related to nuclear material that has temporarily gone missing.

For CRI, I'm Ding Lulu.