UN / CYPRUS

The Security Council today unanimously adopted a resolution renewing the mandate of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) until 31 January 2018. The document also calls on both sides to continue to engage “as a matter of urgency” in consultations with UNFICYP on the demarcation of the buffer zone. UNIFEED

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:34
• Production Date: 27 July 2017
• Asset Language: Arabic; Chinese
• Personal Subject: LIU JIEYI
• Corporate Name: SECURITY COUNCIL; UNITED NATIONS PEACEKEEPING FORCE IN CYPRUS - UNFICYP
• Subject Topical: PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS
• Geographic Subject: CYPRUS
• MAMS Id: 1940508
• Parent Id: 1940508
• Alternate Title: unifeed170727c

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STORY: UN / CYPRUS
TRT: 1:34
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: CHINESE /ARABIC /NATS

DATELINE: 27 JULY 2017, NEW YORK CITY

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1. Wide shot, exterior, UN Headquarters

27 JULY 2017, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, Security Council meeting
3. Zoom in, president banging gavel
4. Various shots, delegates
5. Close up, president calling for vote
6. Pan left, Council voting
7. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Jieyi Liu, Permanent Representative of China to the UN and President of the Security Council for July 2017:
“The draft resolution received 15 votes in favour. The draft resolution has been adopted unanimously as resolution 2369 of 2017.”
8. Wide shot, Council in meeting
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abdellatif Aboulatta, Permanent Representative of Egypt to the UN:
“We commend the efforts of His Excellency President Nicos Anastasiades and we commend his proposal to resume the negotiations on sound basis. We stress the high importance of UNFICYP in Cyprus and we call for its continuous role in maintaining calm and creating a safe environment in Cyprus while ensuring communications between the parties and seeking to relaunch the negotiations. The mission should also continue its role as a mediator and a facilitator.”
10. Wide shot, end of Council’s meeting

Storyline

The Security Council today unanimously adopted a resolution renewing the mandate of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) until 31 January 2018.

The resolution, which was put forward by the United Kingdom, also calls on both sides to continue to engage “as a matter of urgency” in consultations with UNFICYP on the demarcation of the buffer zone, and requests from them to allow access to deminers and to facilitate the removal of the remaining mines in Cyprus within the buffer zone.

Egyptian ambassador Abdellatif Aboulatta stressed “the high importance of UNFICYP in Cyprus" and called for "its continuous role in maintaining calm and creating a safe environment in Cyprus.”

He also said “the mission should also continue its role as a mediator and a facilitator.”

The resolution 2369 to renew the UNFICYP’s mandate comes after the failed negotiations of the unification talks in the Conference on Cyprus in May 2017 in Geneva.