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DATELINE: 17 NOVEMBER 2015, NEW YORK CITY
RECENT – NEW YORK CITY
1. Aerial shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
17 NOVEMBER 2015, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“I just returned from the G20 leaders, which was held in Antalya, Turkey, and I was encouraged by the shared resolve to combine security-based counter-terrorism measures with preventive steps that address governance failures, injustice, exclusion and other drivers of extremist violence. There was also consensus on the need for our response to uphold the rule of law, and to avoid being ruled by fear and inflaming tensions further still.”
4. Med shot, delegates
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“I am especially concerned about reprisals or further discrimination against Muslims, in particular Muslim refugees and migrants. This would just exacerbate the alienation on which terrorists feed.”
6. Med shot, delegates
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“We also need to be bold when necessary -- for example in rebuilding Syria and supporting the countries generously hosting large numbers of refugees, including Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey. There is a growing global call for a recovery plan for the region -- perhaps akin to the Marshall Plan in scale. I urge you to give this idea due consideration when the day arrives, as I know we hope it will soon.”
8. Wide shot, Security Council
9. Pan left, UK Secretary of State for International Development Justine Greening walks up to the stakeout microphone
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Justine Greening, Secretary of State for International Development of 5the United Kingdom:
“In the immediate term we need to provide support to people who are affected by things like the crisis in Syria. I just talked about the need for support for refugees. We need to tackle ISIS head on. It’s clear from the terrible attacks we’ve seen around the world, not just in Paris, in recent days and weeks that ISIL will not go away. It needs to be dealt with. It needs to be tackled head on. But we also need to find a political solution to the crisis is Syria that is giving ISIL the space to be able to grow and develop as an organization and be a threat, not only to ordinary Syrians who are caught up in this crisis and indeed in Iraq, but much more broadly around the world.”
11. Pan right, Greening walks away
The United Nations Security Council held a debate on conflict prevention today (17 Nov) amid added urgency fuelled by last week’s terrorist attacks in Beirut and Paris, with Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stressing that counter-terrorism must also tackle such root causes as bad governance, injustice and exclusion.
The Secretary-General told the Council that at the G20 meeting held in Antalya, Turkey, two days ago, he was encouraged “by the shared resolve to combine security-based counter-terrorism measures with preventive steps that address governance failures, injustice, exclusion and other drivers of extremist violence.”
In the wake of the Paris attacks, Ban expressed concern “about reprisals or further discrimination against Muslims, in particular Muslim refugees and migrants” and said “this would just exacerbate the alienation on which terrorists feed.”
Ban called for a global recovery plan for the Middle East similar to the multi-billion dollar Marshall Plan with which the United States rebuilt Western Europe after World War Two.
He urged leaders “to give this idea due consideration when the day arrives, as I know we hope it will soon.”
The Secretary General laid out four principles for preventing conflict and terrorism, stressing the crucial importance of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which calls for achieving peaceful and inclusive societies that provide access to justice and build accountable institutions.
These include development assistance, a sharper focus on human rights, greater coherence among all actors, and adequate, predictable financing for UN mediation work, Country Teams, and the UN Peacebuilding Fund.
Outside the Council, Secretary of State for International Development of the United Kingdom, Justine Greening, who presided the meeting, said It was “clear from the terrible attacks we’ve seen around the world, not just in Paris, in recent days and weeks that ISIL will not go away.”
Greening said the terrorist organization “needs to be dealt with. It needs to be tackled head on” but “we also need to find a political solution to the crisis is Syria that is giving ISIL the space to be able to grow and develop as an organization and be a threat, not only to ordinary Syrians who are caught up in this crisis and indeed in Iraq, but much more broadly around the world.”
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