UN / JERUSALEM AL AQSA

After briefing the Security Council in a close-door meeting on the latest developments in the Al Aqsa crisis in Jerusalem, a top UN official for the Middle East told reporters that latest events “have the potential to have catastrophic costs well beyond the walls of the old city.” UNIFEED

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:43
• Production Date: 24 July 2017
• Asset Language: Arabic; English
• Personal Subject: NICKOLAY MLADENOV
• Corporate Name: SECURITY COUNCIL
• Subject Topical: PEACE AND SECURITY
• Geographic Subject: MIDDLE EAST
• MAMS Id: 1937777
• Parent Id: 1937777
• Alternate Title: unifeed170724a

Description

STORY: UN / JERUSALEM AL AQSA
TRT: 2:43
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /ARABIC /NATS

DATELINE: 24 JULY 2017, NEW YORK CITY

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1. Tilt up, exterior, UN Headquarters

24 JULY 2017, NEW YORK CITY

2. Zoom out, Mladenov arriving at the stakeout
3. Cutaway, camera
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Nickolay Mladenov, Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process:
“Nobody should be mistaken that these events are localized events. In fact, they are maybe taking place over a couple of hundreds square meters but they affect millions if not billions of people around the world. They have the potential to have catastrophic costs well beyond the walls of the old city, well beyond Israel and Palestine, well beyond the Middle East itself.”
5. Cutaway, notebook
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Nickolay Mladenov, Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process:
“I asked member states to use their influence with all sides in order to encourage them to deescalate and to ensure that while the security is provided for worshipers and visitors to the holly sites in Jerusalem, the status quo that has been established since 1967 is preserved for all.”
7. Wide shot, Danon arriving at the stakeout
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Danny Danon, Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations:
“Israel is making sure that there is a real freedom of religion in Jerusalem and that is what we will continue to do. We will enable everyone to come and pray on the Temple Mountain, but at the same time we will do whatever is necessary to maintain security on this important site.”
9. Tracking shot, Mansour arriving at the stakeout
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Riyad Mansour, Permanent Observer of Palestine to the United Nations:
“We want all obstacles put in place to deprive worshipers of exercising the right to go and pray and all these things including: metal detectors, cameras, obstacles, all of them, they need to be removed and removed completely without conditions. For those who want to maintain the status quo it means the removal of all these things that violate the status quo.”
11. Wide shot, Mansour at the stakeout
12. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Riyad Mansour, Permanent Observer of Palestine to the United Nations:
“We salute the martyrs; we salute the injured; and we salute the children of the Palestinian people. This is a stance of pride and dignity and it will not end until all these demands are met for which the Palestinian people have called. And if all of this does not stop from now until Friday, next Friday will be greater than the Friday that passed.”
13. Wide shot, Mansour at the stakeout

Storyline

After briefing the Security Council in a close-door meeting on the latest developments in the Al Aqsa crisis in Jerusalem, a top UN official for the Middle East told reporters that latest events “have the potential to have catastrophic costs well beyond the walls of the old city.”

United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, NIckolay Mladenov told reporters in New York today that “nobody should be mistaken that these events are localized events. In fact, they are maybe taking place over a couple of hundreds square meters but they affect millions if not billions of people around the world.”

The Security Council consultations were taking place amid the escalating tensions and violent clashes taking place in and around the Old City of Jerusalem, after the Israel’s security forces started installing metal detectors, cameras and other security measures at Al Aqsa mosque.

Mladenov said he has asked the Security Council members to “use their influence with all sides in order to encourage them to deescalate and to ensure that while the security is provided for worshipers and visitors to the holly sites in Jerusalem, the status quo that has been established since 1967 is preserved for all.”

Earlier today, Israeli Ambassador Danny Danon told the media that “Israel is making sure that there is a real freedom of religion in Jerusalem and that is what we will continue to do. We will enable everyone to come and pray on the Temple Mountain, but at the same time we will do whatever is necessary to maintain security on this important site.”

Also speaking to the media, Palestinian Ambassador Riyad Mansour however, said that the Palestinian Authority demands that “all obstacles put in place to deprive worshipers of exercising the right to go and pray and all these things including: metal detectors, cameras, obstacles, all of them, they need to be removed and removed completely without conditions.”

Tomorrow, July 25, the Security Council will hold an open debate on the situation in the Middle East.