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STORY: UN / SAUDI ARABIA YEMEN
TRT: 02:00
SOURCE: UNIFEED-UNTV
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 04 MARCH 2016, NEW YORK CITY / RECENT
RECENT - NEW YORK CITY
1. Exterior, United Nations Headquarters
04 MARCH 2016, NEW YORK CITY 2016,
2. Wide shot, press conference
3. Wide shot, press
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Abdallah Al-Mouallimi, Permanent Representative of Saudi Arabia to the United Nations:
“Anybody who says that that the Saudi-led coalition targets deliberately civilian targets including hospitals or schools or otherwise is absolutely wrong. It’s absolutely wrong. We do not target any civilian sites for bombing by the coalition forces, absolutely. If mistakes happen they are investigated. If there are facilities that are being used by the Houthis and the forces loyal to President Ali Abdullah Saleh as headquarters, that they are utilising, that they are occupying, then they are legitimate military targets.”
5. Wide shot, press conference
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Abdallah Al-Mouallimi, Permanent Representative of Saudi Arabia to the United Nations:
“We are responding to the call of the legitimate government of Yemen. We conduct our operations in consultation and in cooperation with the legitimate government of Yemen. What you are describing as being an attack on the infrastructure is absolutely wrong and untrue and cannot be imagined to be accurate; because at the end of the day we all know that Yemen will need reconstruction and will need development, and we all know that most of that construction or reconstruction is going to be financed by Saudi Arabia and the GCC.”
7. Wide shot, press conference
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Abdallah Al-Mouallimi, Permanent Representative of Saudi Arabia to the United Nations:
“We have no reason to exclude the Houthis from any political settlement. We think they are a component of Yemeni society; they are just as entitled as any other component to be represented. What we do not accept, and the Yemeni people do not accept, and the Yemeni government do not accept, is for any political party, the Houthis or anybody else to have a military militia, to have a military wing. We will not accept a Hezbollah type situation in Yemen.”
9. Wide shot, end of press conference
Saudi Ambassador Abdallah Al-Mouallimi today (4 Mar) denied that the Saudi-led coalition deliberately targets civilian infrastructure in Yemen.
Al-Mouallimi saID that allegations of bombings of hospitals and schools are “absolutely wrong.”
The Saudi Ambassador said “if there are facilities that are being used by the Houthis and the forces loyal to President Ali Abdullah Saleh as headquarters, that they are utilising, that they are occupying, then they are legitimate military targets.”
He pointed out that Saudi forces are “responding to the call of the legitimate government of Yemen” and added that “at the end of the day we all know that Yemen will need reconstruction and will need development, and we all know that most of that construction or reconstruction is going to be financed by Saudi Arabia and the GCC.”
Al-Mouallimi said that Houthis “are a component of Yemeni society; they are just as entitled as any other component to be represented” but “any political party, the Houthis or anybody else to have a military militia, to have a military wing” will not be accepted.”
He said “we will not accept a Hezbollah type situation in Yemen.”
Yemen, which was swept by mass Arab Spring-inspired protests in 2011, plunged into war after the Houthis overthrew the central government, prompting Saudi Arabia and other Arab states in March to launch a military campaign.
The conflict in impoverished Yemen has killed thousands people and caused a major humanitarian crisis.
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