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STORY: UN / COUNTER-TERRORISM RESOLUTION
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / FRENCH / RUSSIAN / NATS
DATELINE: 20 NOVEMBER 2015, NEW YORK CITY / RECENT
RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations Headquarters
20 NOVEMBER 2015, NEW YORK CITY
2. Pan left-to-right, Security Council members states voting
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Matthew Rycroft, Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations and Security Council President:
“The result of the voting is as follows: The draft resolution received 15 votes in favour. The draft has been adopted unanimously as resolution 2249 of 2015.”
4. Med shot, Security Council session in progress
5. SOUNDBITE (French) Francois Delattre, Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations:
“The resolution we’ve just adopted recognises the exceptional nature of the Daesh (ISIL) threat and calls upon all Member States to take all necessary measures to eradicate the sanctuary that it has created in Syria and Iraq, but also to push back its radical ideology.”
6. Med shot, Security Council session in progress
7. SOUNDBITE (French) Francois Delattre, Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations:
“Based on this historic resolution of the Security Council, France shall continue and scale up its efforts so as to galvanise the international community as a whole to vanquish our shared enemy. France shall place due role, here, the President of the Republic has announced an intensification of air raids against strategic targets of Daesh in Syria. This scale up is underway. France, in the days to come, will triple its strike force with the arrival in the area of Charles de Gaulle aircraft carriers.”
8. Wide shot, Security Council session in progress
9. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Vitaly Churkin, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations:
“We welcome the growing understanding that the time has come to bring together the ranks of the international community in the face of terrorism. Active work of our partners on the Security Council, and initiatives put forth are aiming to tackle these challenges. It is indeed central for all and requires priority and attention, and most importantly action without any controlling or pre-condition. Of course, we had to support the French resolution. While the draft was prepared in extraordinary regime and tight time frame the French delegation took on board Russia’s important amendments. We are convinced that the important foundation of combating international terrorism should be the UN Charter, guided here by the matter of the use of force.”
10. Pan right-to-left, Delattre walking to lectern
11. SOUNDBITE (French) Francois Delattre, Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations:
“With this resolution we have, as I said, the legal and political framework to mobilise and unify the entire international community in the existing threat and fight against Daesh.”
12. Wide shot, Delattre addressing reporters
13. SOUNDBITE (French) Francois Delattre, Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations:
“This resolution calls on all Member States to take all necessary measures against Daesh, all necessary measures. These are the key words obviously. It is a strong, very strong formulation which suffers no ambiguity.”
14. Pan right-to-left, Rycroft walking to lectern
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Matthew Rycroft, Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations and Security Council President:
“ISIL’s murderous violence also requires a strong security response. That is why the United Kingdom is working with our allies as part of the global coalition to degrade and defeat ISIL in Syria and Iraq, and when necessary, striking against those who pose a threat to the United Kingdom and our people and our interests.”
16. Wide shot, Rycroft addressing reporters
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Matthew Rycroft, Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations and Security Council President:
“The consent of the Syrian government is not required for any action that is in self-defence under article 51 of the UN Charter, and that is what Operative Paragraph 5 of this resolution describes and is talking about the UN Charter. That is the legal basis, and as I said, this is a unanimous call to action to all Member States with the capacity to do so to take all necessary measures on that legal basis.”
18. Pan left-to-right, Rycroft walking away
France announced today (20 Nov) the intensification of air raids against Islamic State targets, after the Security Council unanimously adopted a counter-terrorism resolution to fight the group in Syria and Iraq.
“The result of the voting is as follows: The draft resolution received 15 votes in favour. The draft has been adopted unanimously as resolution 2249 of 2015,” the British Ambassador to the UN, and Security Council President Matthew Rycroft told delegates after lengthy discussions on the draft resolution proposed by France, following last week’s deadly attacks in Paris.
Francois Delattre, Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations, said that the resolution not only recognised “the exception nature of the Daesh (ISIL) threat” but that it also called upon all member states “to take all necessary measures to eradicate the sanctuary that it has created in Syria and Iraq, but also to push back its radical ideology.”
He also said the resolution was “historic” and announced that France would intensify “air raids against strategic targets of Daesh in Syria. This scale up is underway. France, in the days to come, will triple its strike force with the arrival in the area of Charles de Gaulle aircraft carriers.”
Russia, who had also circulated a resolution calling on governments, including Syria, to combat terrorism, said it welcomed the “growing understanding that the time has come to bring together the ranks of the international community in the face of terrorism”.
Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin told member states “of course, we had to support the French resolution. While the draft was prepared in extraordinary regime and tight time frame the French delegation took on board Russia’s important amendments. We are convinced that the important foundation of combating international terrorism should be the UN Charter, guided here by the matter of the use of force.”
Addressing reporters after the vote, Delattre said with the resolution France now had “the legal and political framework to mobilise and unify the entire international community in the existing threat and fight against Daesh.”
He also stressed that the resolution called on all Member States “to take all necessary measures against Daesh, all necessary measures. These are the key words obviously. It is a strong, very strong formulation which suffers no ambiguity.”
Rycroft said the United Kingdom was working with its allied “as part of the global coalition to degrade and defeat ISIL in Syria and Iraq, and when necessary, striking against those who pose a threat to the United Kingdom and our people and our interests.”
When asked whether the international community needed the approval of the Syrian regime before using military force against ISIL targets, Rycroft said “the consent of the Syrian government is not required for any action that is in self-defence under article 51 of the UN Charter, and that is what Operative Paragraph 5 of this resolution describes and is talking about the UN Charter. That is the legal basis, and as I said, this is a unanimous call to action to all Member States with the capacity to do so to take all necessary measures on that legal basis.”
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