UN / LYBIA

The UN Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution calling on all parties in Libya to agree to an immediate ceasefire and an end to the fighting. The 15-member body also condemned the use of violence against civilians and called on those responsible to be held accountable. UNIFEED-UNTV

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:56
• Production Date: 27 August 2014
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS SUPPORT MISSION IN LIBYA - UNSMIL
• Subject Topical: TERRORISM
• Geographic Subject: LIBYA
• MAMS Id: 1155284

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STORY: UN / LIBYA
TRT: 02:56
SOURCE: UNIFEED-UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / ARABIC / NATS

DATELINE: 27 AUGUST 2014, NEW YORK CITY / RECENT

Shotlist

RECENT-NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, exterior, United Nations Headquarters

27 AUGUST 2014, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, Security Council members voting
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Tarek Mitri, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Libya:
“Armed battles, inflamed by air strikes, continued almost uninterrupted in Tripoli, Benghazi and other parts of the country. In Tripoli, we have seen an unprecedented movement of population in an attempt to escape the fighting. Conservative figures for those displaced are estimated at over 100,000, with at least another 150,000, including many migrant workers, have sought refuge abroad.”
4. Med shot, ambassadors
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Tarek Mitri, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Libya:
“The threat from the spread of terrorist groups has become real. Their presence and activities in a number of Libyan cities are known to all. At present, the chaotic security situation and the very limited capacity of the government to counter the threat may “well have created a fertile ground for a mounting danger in Libya and beyond.”
8. Med shot, ambassadors
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Ibrahim Dabbashi, Permanent Representative of Libya:
“The situation since 13 July has become even more complicated and the situation might unravel into a full-blown civil war if we are not very careful and wise in our actions, and that needs to be true of all parties. I have always excluded the possibility of a civil war but the situation has changed.”
10. Med shot, ambassadors
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Ibrahim Dabbashi, Permanent Representative of Libya:
“No one is calling for tolerance, for love, for brotherhood. No one is calling for non-violence, with the principles of justice and equality. No one is calling for a country where those principles would prevail. Unfortunately, the principles and precepts of Islam are not seen in the hearts of this belligerence.”
12. Wide shot, Security Council room
13. SOUNDBITE (English) SOUNDBITE (English) Tarek Mitri, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Libya::
“If confirmed that [they] were perpetrated by outside forces, I don’t think that can help. I don’t think it has helped Libyans cease fire and reach some sort of political agreement.”
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Tarek Mitri, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Libya walks out

Storyline

The United Nations (UN) Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution today (27 Aug) calling on all parties in Libya to agree to an immediate ceasefire and an end to fighting. The 15-member body also condemned the use of violence against civilians and called on those responsible to be held accountable.

In his last briefing to the Council, the UN Envoy to Libya, Tarek Mitri, warned about the effects of the ongoing violence on the civilian population.

He said “armed battles, inflamed by air strikes, continued almost uninterrupted in Tripoli, Benghazi and other parts of the country. In Tripoli, we have seen an unprecedented movement of population in an attempt to escape the fighting.

Conservative figures for those displaced are estimated at over 100,000, with at least another 150,000, including many migrant workers, have sought refuge abroad including migrant workers who also fled the country.”

Mitri underscored the deterioration of the living conditions in Tripoli and Benghazi. He noted the shortage of food, fuel, water and electricity facing the civilian population and the medical staff and supplies.

The UN Envoy warned about the rise in criminality and said that the fighting is likely to result “in the dissemination of explosive remnants of war and unexploded ordnances, posing a further threat to civilians.”

Mitri emphasized that “the threat from the spread of terrorist groups has become real.” He noted that “the chaotic security situation and the very limited capacity of the government to counter the threat may well have created a fertile ground for a mounting danger in Libya and beyond.”

Libyan Ambassador Ibrahim Dabbashi said that the deterioration of the situation on the ground and noted that it might unfold into a civil war.

“The situation since 13 July has become even more complicated and the situation might unravel into a full-blown civil war if we are not very careful and wise in our actions, and that needs to be true of all parties.”

He stressed that he had always excluded the possibility of a civil war and underscored that in the recent weeks “the situation has changed.”

Dabbashi noted that political and religious leaders, as well as the media, incite armed groups to combat state institutions.

He said “no one is calling for tolerance, for love, for brotherhood. No one is calling for non-violence, with the principles of justice and equality.”

The ambassador pointed out that no one is fighting for a country “where those principles would prevail. Unfortunately, the principles and precepts of Islam are not seen in the hearts of this belligerence.”

The UN Envoy and the Libyan Representative warned the Council about the rising toll of innocent lives lost, including children, and the ongoing many cases of kidnapping, burning of houses, looting and other acts of revenge.

Asked by jounalist about reports of airstrikes by Egypt and the United States Emirates in Libya, noted that the United Nations has not been able to confirm those reports. However, he said that underscored that if confirmed that [they] were perpetrated by outside forces, I don’t think that can help. I don’t think it has helped Libyans cease fire and reach some sort of political agreement.”

He added that any foreign intervention would be a violation of Libya's sovereignty.

The document extended the criteria of the sanctions regime to apply to Libyan individuals and entities determined by the 1970 Libya Sanctions Committee to be obstructing or undermining the successful completion of the country’s political transition.

The resolution also determines that the supply, sale or transfer of arms and related materiel – including related ammunition and spare parts – to Libya must be approved in advance by the Committee.