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DATELINE: 30 JUNE 2016, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior UN building
30 JUNE 2016, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
2. Wide shot, Nickolay Mladenov walks up to the podium
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Nickolay Mladenov, United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process:
“The report will not be a scorecard for assigning blame to each side. It is, as I said in the beginning, a fair and balanced attempt to put onto paper what is the agreed consensus among the four members of the Quartet, the United States, the Russian Federation, the European Union , and the Secretary General, as to what are the trends that are undermining the future prospects of a two state solution. The main objective of the report remains to outline these trends, but also to build bridges and to create the conditions under which the Quartet can engage with the parties in rebuilding trust and hopefully setting the stage for meaningful negotiations between both sides.”
4. Wide shot, Mladenov at the podium
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Nickolay Mladenov, United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process:
“The recommendations in the report will be focused, some of them are focused on both sides, certainly there are things that both sides need to do. There are things that each side must do independently of each other, and the basic premise of all of this, all the recommendations are that there are certain agreements, certain conditions, certain documents that in the past have been signed and it is important to return back to those documents and to see what within them needs to be implemented, what has not been implemented, and what must be implemented as quickly and as effectively as possible.”
6. Wide shot, Mladenov at the podium
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Nickolay Mladenov, United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process:
“Those who are responsible for all of these acts need to be certainly taken to court over them and prosecuted to the full extent of the law. All of these incidents, whether it is the killing of a Palestinian teenager, whether it is the terrorist attack in Tel Aviv, all of these incidents unfortunately just illustrate this broad reality of violence that people have had to live for such a long time.”
8. Zoom out, Mladenov walks away
After briefing the Security Council today (30 June) Nickolay Mladenov, the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, told reporters that the new report from the Quartet on the Middle East “will not be a scorecard for assigning blame to each side.”
Mladenov said the report offers “a fair and balanced attempt to put onto paper what is the agreed consensus among the four members of the Quartet, the United States, the Russian Federation, the European Union, and the Secretary General, as to what are the trends that are undermining the future prospects of a two state solution.”
The main objective of the report, he said “remains to outline these trends, but also to build bridges and to create the conditions under which the Quartet can engage with the parties in rebuilding trust and hopefully setting the stage for meaningful negotiations between both sides.”
The Special Coordinator said “certainly there are things that both sides need to do. There are things that each side must do independently of each other, and the basic premise of all of this, all the recommendations are that there are certain agreements, certain conditions, certain documents that in the past have been signed and it is important to return back to those documents and to see what within them needs to be implemented, what has not been implemented, and what must be implemented as quickly and as effectively as possible.”
Regarding the recent violence affecting the Israelis and the Palestinians, including today’s stabbing attack of a 13-year-old Israeli girl in the West Bank by a Palestinian, the killing of four Israelis in an attack in Tele Aviv on 8 June and the recent killing of a Palestinian teenager by the Israeli Security Force, Mladenov said “those who are responsible for all of these acts need to be certainly taken to court over them and prosecuted to the full extent of the law.”
He added that “all of these incidents unfortunately just illustrate this broad reality of violence that people have had to live for such a long time.”
The full text of the report is expected to be released Friday morning.
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