UN / SAUDI ARABIA

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon met with Saudi Arabia's defense minister at headquarters in New York. The meeting took place two weeks after Ban’s report on children and armed conflict blacklisted Saudi Arabia and the Coalition for killing and maiming children in Yemen. Later, Saudi Arabia was removed from that list. UNIFEED-UNTV

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:01
• Production Date: 22 June 2016
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: BAN KI-MOON
• Geographic Subject: SAUDI ARABIA
• MAMS Id: 1653341
• Parent Id: 1653341
• Alternate Title: unifeed160622c

Description

STORY: UN / SAUDI ARABIA
TRT: 1:01
SOURCE: UNIFEED-UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: NATS

DATELINE: 22 JUNE 2016, NEW YORK CITY / RECENT

Shotlist

RECENT, NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations Headquarters

22 JUNE 2016, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, Saudi Arabia’s Deputy Crown Prince and minister of defense entering meeting room
3. Med shot, UN Secretary-General greeting Saudi Arabian minister of defense
4. Close up, UN Secretary-General and Saudi Arabian minister at the photo-op
5. Various shots, UN Secretary-General and Saudi Arabian minister during the meeting

Storyline

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon met today (22 Jun) with Saudi Arabia's defense minister Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud at UN headquarters.The meeting took place two weeks after the Secretary-General's report on children and armed conflict blacklisted Saudi Arabia and the Coalition for killing and maiming children in Yemen, where according to the report, some 1,200 children were killed last year. Later, Saudi Arabia was removed from that list.

During the meeting, the Secretary-General and the Deputy Crown Prince discussed putting into place concrete measures that could improve the situation of the Yemeni civilian population on the ground.

Ban expressed hope that by the time he presents the Children and Armed Conflict report to the Security Council in August, he could point to progress on the protection of children and civilians in Yemen.

The Secretary-General and the Deputy Crown Prince also exchanged views on a wide number of regional issues, including the conflict in Syria, the situations in Libya, Lebanon and Yemen and the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process.