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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 4 SEPTEMBER 2014, NEW YORK CITY / RECENT
RECENT – NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations Headquarters
4 SEPTEMBER 2014, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, US ambassador walks to the stakeout position
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Samantha Power, Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations:
“Certainly if there are chemical weapons left in Syria, there will be a risk that those weapons fall into ISIL’s hands. And we can only imagine what a group like that would do if in possession of such a weapon.”
4. Wide shot, US ambassador listening to a question
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Samantha Power, Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations:
“I want to stress that much more work still needs to be done on Syria’s chemical weapons program. The international community must continue to press for the resolution of all discrepancies and omissions in Syria’s original declaration. We must ensure that the Syrian government destroys its remaining facilities for producing chemical weapons within the mandated time frames and without the repeated delays by the Assad regime that plagued earlier removal efforts.”
6. Wide shot, US ambassador walks away from stakeout position
7. Wide shot, Sigrid Kaag enters press conference room
8. Wide shot, presser
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Sigrid Kaag, Special Coordinator of the joint mission of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW):
“The Joint-Mission has achieved its objectives, has assisted…The authorities in Damascus achieved their goals as a State party, but the residual activities that remain of course are also of importance and interest to the Council, so they have asked to be briefed on a regular basis as before for the foreseeable period.”
10. Wide shot, Sigrid Kaag stands up and leaves
US ambassador Samantha Power expressed her government’s concern that the Islamic State group and other terrorists could get chemical weapons in Syria.
Speaking to reporters outside the Security Council, she said -in her national capacity- “if there are chemical weapons left in Syria, there will be a risk that those weapons fall into ISIL’s hands. And we can only imagine what a group like that would do if in possession of such a weapon.”
Power –who is the Security Council’s president for the month of September- noted that the Council intends to stay very much on top of this.
She added “I want to stress that much more work still needs to be done on Syria’s chemical weapons program. The international community must continue to press for the resolution of all discrepancies and omissions in Syria’s original declaration.”
Power underlined “we must ensure that the Syrian government destroys its remaining facilities for producing chemical weapons within the mandated time frames and without the repeated delays by the Assad regime that plagued earlier removal efforts.”
Earlier today, the head of the Joint Mission of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and the United Nations (OPCW-UN) Sigrid Kaag told reporters that the OPCW is still working with Syria to resolve discrepancies in its declaration.
She also said “the Joint-Mission has achieved its objectives”, adding in that “the authorities in Damascus achieved their goals as a State party, but the residual activities that remain of course are also of importance and interest to the Council, so they have asked to be briefed on a regular basis as before for the foreseeable period.”
The joint mission will end at the end of the month after destroying nearly all of Syria’s declared stockpile.
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