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STORY: UN / UK HAMMOND
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 09 NOVEMBER 2015, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Aerial shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
09 NOVEMBER 2015, NEW YORK CITY
2. Pan left, UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond arrives at the stakeout microphone
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Philip Hammond, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs of the United Kingdom:
“We are seeking a reform of the European Union in a way that makes it more robust for the future for the benefit of all the people of Europe and will allow the British people to decide to remain as part of that European Union and to play a leading role in it future success.”\t
4. Wide shot, Hammond
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Philip Hammond, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs of the United Kingdom:
“If our partners in the European Union turn a deaf ear to our requests for reform, Britain is the world’s fifth largest economy. We have extensive connections around the world, not only in the European Union, but through our permanent membership of the Security Council of the United Nations, we are a leading member of NATO, we are members of the Commonwealth, leading members of the Commonwealth; if we had to operate outside of the European Union, we would do so.”\t
6. Wide shot, Hammond
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Philip Hammond, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs of the United Kingdom:
“The position of countries like the UK and the United States who believe he must go, is not just a moral issue about the amount of blood that he has on his hands, it’s a practical issue. It’s an issue about answering the question: how can we bring peace to a country that has fought a vicious civil war in which 250, 300 thousand people have died, without removing the cause of that civil war? We do not believe that it is going to be possible to bring the opposition groups into the political process and have an effective ceasefire unless we have a clear point at which President Assad will depart, at some point during the transition process.”\t
8. Pan right, Hammond walks away
British foreign secretary Philip Hammond told reporters today (9 Nov) at the United Nations that his country was seeking “a reform of the European Union in a way that makes it more robust for the future for the benefit of all the people of Europe.”
Hammond said “the British people to decide to remain as part of that European Union and to play a leading role in it future success.”\t
The foreign secretary pointed out that the United Kingdom plays a leading role in the UN Security Council, NATO and the Commonwealth and said that if “partners in the European Union turn a deaf ear to our requests for reform” Britain is prepared “to operate outside of the European Union.”
Hammond, who had earlier presided a Session of the Security Council on Somalia, also spoke about the situation in Syria.
He said that the position of the United Kingdom and the United States was that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad “must go.”
The foreign secretary said it was “not just a moral issue about the amount of blood that he has on his hands” but “a practical issue.”
He asked “how can we bring peace to a country that has fought a vicious civil war in which 250, 300 thousand people have died, without removing the cause of that civil war?” and added “we do not believe that it is going to be possible to bring the opposition groups into the political process and have an effective ceasefire unless we have a clear point at which President Assad will depart.”
The United Kingdom holds the presidency of the Security Council for the month of November.
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