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UN / UKRAINE
STORY: UN / UKRAINE (v0003)
TRT: 3.39
SOURCE: UNIFEED - UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / RUSSIAN / NATS
DATELINE: 08 AUGUST 2014, NEW YORK CITY / RECENT
FILE - RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
08 AUGUST 2014, NEW YORK
2. Wide shot, Security Council room
3. SOUNDBITE (English), Ivan Simonovic, United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights:
"Some vulnerable groups such as persons with HIV or drug users have been made 'to work off their guilt' as forced labor or to fight on the front lines for two weeks or more."
4. Med shot, delegate
5. SOUNDBITE (English), Ivan Simonovic, United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights:
"We cannot afford to wait a day longer when at least 50 people are being killed or wounded every day. The price being paid by all Ukrainians as a result of the conflict is too high. Ukrainians and Russian Ukrainians in this are loosing their lives but the whole country is paying the price of conflict as a result of the deterioration of social services."
6. Med shot, delegate
7. SOUNDBITE (English), Ivan Simonovic, United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights:
"It is disturbing to learn that the volatile security situation at the crash site continues to hamper the investigators, despite the ceasefire zone declared by the government of Ukraine around the area. It is urgent to stop the fighting and to secure the crash site."
8. Wide shot, Security Council room
9. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Vitaly Churkin, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations:
"Over 820,000 Ukrainians are currently finding shelter in Russia. Requests for residency rights number 188,000. In our territory we have set up 643 temporary shelters for those who have no where else to go. Currently there are forty seven thousand and a half thousand individuals there, out of which 16,000 are children."
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11. SOUNDBITE (English) Samantha Power, Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations:
"Russia has proposed this week creating humanitarian corridors to assist the affected populations in Ukraine. But in Ukraine, urgent humanitarian assistance should be delivered by the international humanitarian organizations that have the expertise, experience, and independence to provide it. It should not be delivered by Russia. And given that Ukraine has allowed international humanitarian groups to deliver aid within its territory, there is no logical reason why Russia should seek to deliver it. Therefore, any further unilateral intervention by Russia into Ukrainian territory - including one under the guise of providing humanitarian aid - would be completely unacceptable and deeply alarming. And it would be viewed as an invasion of Ukraine."
12. Wide shot, Security Council room
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Samantha Power, Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations:
"Last week, the Russians again floated the idea of sending Russian quote "peacekeepers" to eastern Ukraine. A "Russian peacekeeper" in Ukraine is an oxymoron: at every step in this crisis, Russians have sabotaged peace, not built it. And it is particularly worrisome given Russia's purported annexation of Crimea, which was predicated on calls by an illegitimate, puppet government, for Russia to send troops to restore "peace." Peacekeepers are impartial - yet Russia fully supports Russian armed separatists in this conflict."
14. Wide shot, Security Council room
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Oleksandr Pavlichenko, Deputy Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations:
"Entire towns and villages are being used as human shields. Their gunmen are kidnapping civilians for the purpose of ransom, exchange or use as labor force. Others they are torturing and murdering. How do these crimes help the people they claim to represent?"
16. Wide shot, Security Council room.
A senior United Nations (UN) official told the Security Council that while constitutional proposals aimed at decentralization and the preservation of the Russian language were made, the human rights situation in the eastern regions of Luhansk and Donetsk has deteriorated significantly.
Speaking by videoconference at the Security Council, the Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights, Ivan Simonovic, warned the delegates about the egregious human rights abuses committed by armed groups, especially the increasing number of abductions, amounting to 924 since the start of the unrest in eastern Ukraine in April.
He said that abducted individuals have been used as an exchange currency to free members of armed groups detained by the government, to extort money or property; and as a source of forced labor. He also noted that some of those kidnapped, especially "persons with HIV or drug users have been made 'to work off their guilt' as forced labor or to fight on the front lines for two weeks or more."
The senior UN official highlights that "we cannot afford to wait a day longer when at least 50 people are being killed or wounded every day. The price being paid by all Ukrainians as a result of the conflict is too high."
On the downing of the Malaysian Airlines flight MH17, Simonovic noted that it may constitute a war crime and alerted about the problems facing international investigators to access the crash site.
He said "it is disturbing to learn that the volatile security situation at the crash site continues to hamper the investigators, despite the ceasefire zone declared by the government of Ukraine around the area. It is urgent to stop the fighting and to secure the crash site."
The Russian ambassador, Vitaly Churkin, said that there was an influx of Ukrainian citizens seeking shelter in Russia.
"Over 820,000 Ukrainians are currently finding shelter in Russia. Requests for residency rights number 188,000. In our territory we have set up 643 temporary shelters for those who have no where else to go. Currently there are forty seven thousand and a half thousand individuals there, out of which 16,000 are children."
In response to the previous request by Russia to create humanitarian corridors in Ukraine, the US ambassador, Samantha Power, noted that "urgent humanitarian assistance should be delivered by the international humanitarian organizations that have the expertise, experience, and independence to provide it. It should not be delivered by Russia."
She said that given that Ukraine has allowed international humanitarian assistance within its territory, "there is no logical reason why Russia should seek to deliver it." Power pointed out that "any further unilateral intervention by Russia into Ukrainian territory - including one under the guise of providing humanitarian aid - would be completely unacceptable and deeply alarming. And it would be viewed as an invasion of Ukraine."
Power also recalled Russia's suggestion to send Russian "peacekeepers" to eastern Ukraine and said that "a 'Russian peacekeeper' in Ukraine is an oxymoron." She noted that "at every step in this crisis, Russians have sabotaged peace, not built it," and underscored that "Russia fully supports Russian armed separatists in this conflict."
Ukrainian ambassador Oleksandr Pavlichenkos said that entire towns and villages were being used as human shields. "Their gunmen are kidnapping civilians for the purpose of ransom, exchange or use as labor force. Others they are torturing and murdering. How do these crimes help the people they claim to represent?"
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