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GENEVA / ABBAS
STORY: GENEVA / ABBAS
TRT: 03:06
SOURCE: UNTV CH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / ARABIC / NATS
DATELINE: GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / RECENT
RECENT - GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
1. Tilt down, Palais des Nations
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
2. Close up, Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights waiting
3. Pan right, President of Palestine Mahmoud Abbas arriving and shaking hands
4. Wide shot, Palestinian delegation meeting with UN High Commissioner and Vice President of Human Rights Council
5. Pan right, Palestinian delegation to UN High Commissioner
6. Wide shot, Palestinian delegation with UN High Commissioner
7. Wide shot, Human Rights Council meeting
8. Med shot, Abbas arriving at dais
9. Close up, Israel empty seat in Human Council
10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mahmoud Abbas, President of the State of Palestine:
“This calls for a strong and decisive intervention and requires shouldering the responsibilities before it is too late by the United Nations, its specialized agencies and bodies and its member states, particularly the Security Council, which is requested more urgently than any time before to set up a special regime for international protection of the Palestinian people, immediately and urgently.”
11. Wide shot, Abbas speaking to Human Rights Council
12. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mahmoud Abbas, President of the State of Palestine:
“I extend an honest invitation to the Israeli people, I invite them for a right and justice-based peace that guarantees security and stability for all and I reaffirm from this noble humanitarian rostrum that our hands remain stretched out for just peace that will guarantee my people’s right, freedoms and human dignity.”
13. Tilt up, from screen to Council meeting
14. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mahmoud Abbas, President of the State of Palestine:
“I am not exaggerating when I say that it is high time for your leaders, the leaders of Israel, to have the courage to make right and honest decisions before it is too late; to make the two state solution a reality. This might be, this might be, the last chance for this solution.”
15. Close up, Camera view finder
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights:
“The Middle East peace process must now be reactivated with an unprecedented sense of purpose. A lasting peace must now be obtained. Israel has to be reassured its security for good, and not remain the object of any threat to it or its people. And the occupation, which has caused the Palestinian people such intense suffering for almost fifty years, generating rage and resentment – the occupation must end too.”
17. Wide shot, journalists in Human Rights Council meeting
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas today (28 Oct) addressed the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, appealing for international intervention as a recent wave of deadly Israeli-Palestinian violence showed no sign of abating.
Abbas called for “a strong and decisive intervention and requires shouldering the responsibilities before it is too late by the United Nations, its specialized agencies and bodies and its member states, particularly the Security council, which is requested more urgently than any time before to set up a special regime for international protection of the Palestinian people, immediately and urgently.”
In his speech to the UN human rights body, Abbas accused Israel of carrying out extrajudicial killings, detaining corpses, terrorizing people, applying collective punishments and carrying out illegal demolitions of Palestinian homes.
He also blamed Israel of trying to alter the status quo on the Temple Mount compound in Jerusalem, saying that this threatened to change the conflict from a political one to a religious one.
According to Abbas, peace is still within reach if the occupation of Palestinian land is ended and settlement expansion is ceased. He extended “an honest invitation to the Israeli people, I invite them for a right and justice-based peace that guarantees security and stability for all and I reaffirm from this noble humanitarian rostrum that our hands remain stretched out for just peace that will guarantee my people’s right, freedoms and human dignity.”
Referring to the recent flare-up of attacks in Jerusalem and the West Bank, he said that "it is high time for your leaders, the leaders of Israel, to have the courage to make right and honest decisions before it is too late; to make the two state solution a reality.”
He said this might be “the last chance for this solution”.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein also warned that the latest wave of Israeli-Palestinian violence “will draw us ever closer to a catastrophe if not stopped immediately.”
He added that “the Middle East peace process must now be reactivated with an unprecedented sense of purpose. A lasting peace must now be obtained. Israel has to be reassured its security for good, and not remain the object of any threat to it or its people. And the occupation, which has caused the Palestinian people such intense suffering for almost fifty years, generating rage and resentment – the occupation must end too.”
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