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UN / SYRIA RESOLUTION
STORY: UN / SYRIA RESOLUTION
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SOURCE: UNIFEED-UNTV
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / RUSSIAN / NATS
DATELINE: 18 DECEMBER 2015, NEW YORK CITY
RECENT – NEW YORK CITY
1. Aerial shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
18 DECEMBER 2015, NEW YORK CITY
2. Various shots, Security Council vote
3. Med shot, delegates
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“The people of Syria have suffered enough. I call for you to show vision and leadership in overcoming your differences. A fleeting opportunity for peace has emerged; your duty is to seize it.”
5. Med shot, delegates
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“First, stop the use of indiscriminate weapons against civilians, including barrel bombs, which have continued despite the Government’s pledge to refrain from such assaults. Second, allow unconditional and unimpeded access for aid convoys. Tens of thousands of people in besieged areas have been forced to live on grass and weeds. This is outrageous.”
7. Med shot, Syrian Ambassador Bashar Ja'afari
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“Third, halt attacks on medical and educational facilities, and lift all restrictions on medical and surgical supplies from humanitarian convoys. Fourth, release all detainees. Reports indicate that prisoners face torture and atrocious conditions.”
9. Zoom in, Council dais
10. SOUNDBITE (English) John Kerry, Secretary of State of the United States:
“Nothing would do more to bolster the fight against the terrorists than a broadly supported diplomatic process that gives the Syrian people a real choice. Not a choice between Assad or Daesh, but between war and peace, between the violent extremes and a newly empowered political centre.”
11. Med shot, delegates
12. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Sergey Lavrov, Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation:
“We are all united on the front that terrorists of all stripes have no place in the talks, just the same as those who would like a military solution to the crisis. The unanimous adoption today in the Council created a broad counterterrorism front on the basis of the UN Charter, on the basis of all those pushing back terror on the ground, including the Syrian army, the Turkish army, the armed militias and parts of the Syrian opposition, as well as the Russian air forces in response of the legitimate request of the Syrian republic.”
13. Wide shot, Council
The Security Council today (18 Dec) unanimously passed a resolution aimed at bringing a ceasefire in Syria, as well as jump-starting the political process.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the Council that the people of Syria “have suffered enough” and called on parties to “show vision and leadership in overcoming your differences”
Stressing that a “fleeting opportunity for peace has emerged” he said it was their duty “to seize it.”
The Secretary-General enumerated four confidence-building measures that he said must be implemented immediately.
First, he said “stop the use of indiscriminate weapons against civilians, including barrel bombs, which have continued despite the Government’s pledge to refrain from such assaults.”
Second, “allow unconditional and unimpeded access for aid convoys.”
Third, “halt attacks on medical and educational facilities, and lift all restrictions on medical and surgical supplies from humanitarian convoys.”
Fourth, he said, “release all detainees” as he noted that “reports indicate that prisoners face torture and atrocious conditions.”
Secretary of State John Kerry of the United States, which currently holds the rotating Presidency of the Council, said “nothing would do more to bolster the fight against the terrorists than a broadly supported diplomatic process that gives the Syrian people a real choice. Not a choice between Assad or Daesh, but between war and peace, between the violent extremes and a newly empowered political centre.”
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, for his part, said “we are all united on the front that terrorists of all stripes have no place in the talks, just the same as those who would like a military solution to the crisis.”
He said “the unanimous adoption today in the Council created a broad counterterrorism front on the basis of the UN Charter, on the basis of all those pushing back terror on the ground, including the Syrian army, the Turkish army, the armed militias and parts of the Syrian opposition, as well as the Russian air forces in response of the legitimate request of the Syrian republic.”
Around 250,000 people have died since the conflict began in Syria almost five years ago.
Around 4.4 million have fled the country as refugees.
The resolution expresses grave concern at the continued suffering of the Syrian people, and urges all parties to the UN-facilitated political process to adhere to the principles identified by the International Syria Support Group (ISSG), including commitments to Syria's unity, independence, territorial integrity, and non-sectarian character, to ensuring continuity of governmental institutions, to protecting the rights of all Syrians, regardless of ethnicity or religious denomination, and to ensuring humanitarian access throughout the country.
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