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GA / DEBATE BAN KI-MOON
STORY: GA / DEBATE BAN KI-MOON
TRT: 2:21
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 20 SEPTEMBER 2016, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior, United Nations Headquarters
2. Wide shot, General Assembly
3. Wide shot, Secretary-General walking to the podium
4. Med shot, Syrian delegation
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“There is no military solution. Many groups have killed many innocents – but none more so than the Government of Syria, which continues to barrel bomb neighbourhoods and systematically torture thousands of detainees.”
6. Wide shot, Secretary-General speaking to the General Assembly
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Powerful patrons that keep feeding the war machine also have blood on their hands. Present in this Hall today are representatives of governments that have ignored, facilitated, funded, participated in or even planned and carried out atrocities inflicted by all sides of the Syria conflict against Syrian civilians.”
8. Wide shot, Secretary-General speaking to the General Assembly
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Just when we think it cannot get any worse, the bar of depravity sinks lower. Yesterday’s sickening, savage, and apparently deliberate attack on a UN-Syrian Arab Red Crescent aid convoy is the latest example. The United Nations has been forced to suspend aid convoys as a result of this outrage.”
10. Med shot, delegates
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“I appeal to all those with influence to end the fighting and get talks started. A political transition is long overdue. After so much violence and misrule, the future of Syria should not rest on the fate of a single man.”
12. Wide shot, Secretary-General speaking to the General Assembly
Addressing world leaders at the General Assembly for the last time as Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon said that many groups have killed innocents in the conflict in Syria, “but none more so than the government of Syria, which continues to barrel bomb neighborhoods and systematically torture thousands of detainees.”
The UN chief reminded presidents, prime ministers and heads of states that there is no military solution for the Syrian conflict, adding that the war is taking the greatest number of lives and sowing the widest instability.
Ban also said, “powerful patrons that keep feeding the war machine also have blood on their hands. Present in this Hall today are representatives of governments that have ignored, facilitated, funded, participated in or even planned and carried out atrocities inflicted by all sides of the Syria conflict against Syrian civilians.”
In reference to the UN humanitarian convoy hit on Monday night in Aleppo, he said, “just when we think it cannot get any worse, the bar of depravity sinks lower. Yesterday’s sickening, savage, and apparently deliberate attack on a UN-Syrian Arab Red Crescent aid convoy is the latest example.”
At least 18 of 31 trucks in a joint UN and Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) convoy were hit after an airstrike on the rebel held Orem al Kubra town in Aleppo Governorate in Syria, causing the death of several civilians and one humanitarian worker. A SARC warehouse was also hit. Ban said “the United Nations has been forced to suspend aid convoys as a result of this outrage.” He underscored that the humanitarians delivering life-saving aid were heroes and those who bombed them were cowards, adding that accountability for crimes such as these is essential.
Ban appealed to the parties with influence “to end the fighting and get talks started. A political transition is long overdue. After so much violence and misrule, the future of Syria should not rest on the fate of a single man.”
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