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STORY: UN / HALEY HIZBOLLAH
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SOURCE: UNIFEED
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 25 JULY 2017, NEW YORK CITY
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1. Wide shot, UNHQ exterior
25 JULY 2017, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Nikki Haley, Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations:
“They are returning to Lebanon battle-hardened, and their presence in Syria keeps open their supply route of sophisticated weapons from Iran. Simply put, Hizbollah has grown stronger. It is preparing its men and its arsenal for a future war. None of this is secret.”
4. Wide shot, Security Council
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Nikki Haley, Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations:
“For too long, the Security Council has chosen to pretend that the status quo is acceptable for the people of Lebanon. It is not. Hizbollah’s illegal weapons build-up is putting the people of Lebanon in great danger. Remarkably, this Council cannot even bring itself to use the word “Hizbollah” in recent resolutions or statements on Lebanon. Many here are happy to name Israel, time after time, but Hizbollah is somehow off limits. It’s absurd. Worse than that, it’s dangerous.”
6. Med shot, delegates
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Nikki Haley, Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations:
“There are reports of UNIFIL not fully investigating alleged violations. Sometimes it fails to report what its investigators have found. If UNIFIL can’t acknowledge illegal weapons that Hizbollah parades in front of the media, one wonders what else it’s missing. We will have more to say about UNIFIL when its mandate is up for renewal next month.”
8. Med shot, delegates
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Nikki Haley, Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations:
“Hizbollah is a destructive terrorist force. It is a major obstacle to peace. And the dangers it poses are getting larger, not smaller. Simply acknowledging this – and saying it out loud – would be a significant step forward. But we must do more than that. We must begin to get serious about enforcing our own resolutions that have been routinely violated by Iran and Hizbollah.”
10. Wide shot, Security Council
United States ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley said the Lebanese militia Hizbollah was growing stronger and “preparing its men and its arsenal for a future war” adding that the dangers posed by the “destructive terrorist force” are growing.
Speaking at the Security Council today (25 Jul) Haley said Hizbollah is a terrorist organization which is dedicated to the destruction of Israel and has the blood of hundreds of Americans and thousands of others on its hands. She said the group is responsible for some of the bloodiest campaigns in the Syrian war, and now its fighters are returned to Lebanon “battle-hardened.”
The US ambassador said the Security Council “has chosen to pretend that the status quo is acceptable for the people of Lebanon” for too long and the group’s “weapons build-up is putting the people of Lebanon in great danger.” She added that the Council could not “even bring itself to use the word ‘Hizbollah’ in recent resolutions or statements on Lebanon. Many here are happy to name Israel, time after time, but Hizbollah is somehow off limits. It’s absurd. Worse than that, it’s dangerous.”
Haley noted that her Government supports the UN peacekeeping mission (UNIFIL) in Lebanon, but reports indicate that UNIFIL was “not fully investigating alleged violations” by Hizbollah. She said if UNIFIL “can’t acknowledge illegal weapons that Hizbollah parades in front of the media, one wonders what else it’s missing.”
Haley stressed that Hizbollah is a “destructive terrorist force” and a “major obstacle to peace.” She said the Security Council “must begin to get serious” about enforcing its resolutions “that have been routinely violated by Iran and Hizbollah.”
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