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STORY: UN / LAVROV
TRT: 3.21
SOURCE: UNIFEED-UNTV
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LANGUAGE: RUSSIAN / NATS
DATELINE: 26 SEPTEMBER 2014, NEW YORK CITY / RECENT
RECENT – NEW YORK CITY
1. Pan right, from East River to exterior United Nations headquarters
26 SEPTEMBER 2014, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, presser
3. Med shot, Sergey Lavrov walking to dais
4. Wide shot, cameramen and jornalists
5. SOUNDBITE (Russian) H.E. Mr. Sergey V. Lavrov, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation:
“Ukrainian crisis is the reflection of the longstanding controversy that has been accumulated in the European politics well after the end of the cold war, claiming that security should be indivisible and equal for all in Europe, but these were only words. Nothing happened in practice. NATO continued moving its infrastructure east with growing dalliance and as resolved solid promises to create indivisible security as foundations of European security remained on paper. Words only. We are concerned of this and many other matters.”
6. Med shot, journalist asking a question
7. SOUNDBITE (Russian) H.E. Mr. Sergey V. Lavrov, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation:
“I hope that the settlement process will become sustainable. It can be only gradual, sequential and requiring appropriate assistance so when all external stakeholders and players play the same key. Sometimes, we have the impressions that some members of the Ukrainian government –specially Mr. [Arseniy] Yatsenyuk appointed Prime Minister by the Supreme Rada [Parliament] does not support the steps leading to the normalization of the situation in Eastern Ukraine and he takes rather an aggressive position denying the non-aligning status of Ukraine, which doesn’t help president [Petro] Poroshenko in his efforts. We, in our context, with our European and American colleagues draw the attention on a permanent and constantly that we must act constructively without instigating subversive acts against the peaceful process.”
8. Med shot, journalists
9. SOUNDBITE (Russian) H.E. Mr. Sergey V. Lavrov, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation:
“Domestic issues should be decided on basis of a broad national dialogue engaging all political, ethnic and other minorities groups without imposing settlement scenarios from the outside. We’ve seen many examples –I don’t want to list them- when attempted to settle a crisis at one country ignoring completely the real situation within a country it failed to achieve lasting solution of the existing problem.”
10. Wide shot, Sergey Lavrov leaving briefing room
Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov affirmed that the situation in Ukraine is a result of the crisis in the European security system.
Speaking to reporters in New York in the margins of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly, Lavrov said “Ukrainian crisis is the reflection of the longstanding controversy that has been accumulated in the European politics well after the end of the cold war, claiming that security should be indivisible and equal for all in Europe, but these were only words.”
He added “nothing happened in practice. NATO continued moving its infrastructure east with growing dalliance and as resolved solid promises to create indivisible security as foundations of European security remained on paper. Words only. We are concerned of this and many other matters.”
Asked how close a real settlement is in Ukraine, Lavrov answered “I hope that the settlement process will become sustainable. It can be only gradual, sequential and requiring appropriate assistance so when all external stakeholders and players play the same key.”
He also said “sometimes, we have the impressions that some members of the Ukrainian government –specially Mr. [Arseniy] Yatsenyuk appointed Prime Minister by the Supreme Rada [Parliament] does not support the steps leading to the normalization of the situation in Eastern Ukraine and he takes rather an aggressive position denying the non-aligning status of Ukraine, which doesn’t help president [Petro] Poroshenko in his efforts.”
Lavrov stressed “we must act constructively without instigating subversive acts against the peaceful process.”
Regarding the conflicts in Middle East and North Africa, the Russian diplomat said “domestic issues should be decided on basis of a broad national dialogue engaging all political, ethnic and other minorities groups without imposing settlement scenarios from the outside.”
He added that we’ve seen many examples that illustrates that when trying to resolve crisis ignoring the real situation within countries, these fail to achieve a lasting solution to the existing problem.
Commenting on the military actions taking place against terrorists groups in Syrian territory, Lavrov noted that the lack of coordination with the authorities in Damascus is not only a violation of international law, but also it undermines the effectiveness of the effort.
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