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UN / UK RUSSIA NERVE AGENT
STORY: UN / UK RUSSIA NERVE AGENT
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SOURCE: UNIFEED
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / RUSSIAN / NATS
DATELINE: 14 MARCH 2018, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
14 MARCH 2018, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Jonathan Allen, Deputy Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations:
“The UK government concluded that it was highly likely that Russia was responsible for this reckless act. We saw only two plausible explanations. Either this was a direct attack by Russia on my country, or Russia had lost control of a military grade nerve agent which they had developed. We requested the Russian government provide an explanation by the end of Tuesday the 13th of March on how this Russian produced nerve agent could have been deployed in Salisbury. They provided no credible explanation which could suggest they lost control of their nerve agent.”
4. Med shot, Russian Ambassador
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Jonathan Allen, Deputy Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations:
“This was no common crime. It was an unlawful use of force, a violation of article 2 of the United Nations Charter, the basis of the international legal order.”
6. Med shot, Russian Ambassador
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Nikki Haley, Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations:
“If we don’t take immediate, concrete measures to address this now, Salisbury will not be the last place we see chemical weapons used. They could be used here in New York or in cities of any country that sits on this Council.”
8. Wide shot, delegates
9. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Vassily Alekseevich Nebenzia, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations:
“We demand that material proof be provided of the allegedly found Russian trace in this high resonance event. Without this, stating that there is incontrovertible proof, is not something that we can take seriously. Until now we have not seen anything besides stating that this is highly likely.”
10. Med shot, UK Ambassador
11. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Vassily Alekseevich Nebenzia, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations:
“Russia had nothing to do with this incident. The ultimatum from London is something that we cannot take seriously, and we consider null and void. We expect that the United Kingdom will act in strict adherence with the convention on chemical weapons and other international instruments including the European Convention on legal assistance in in criminal matters, and will provide samples of substances that the UK investigation is referring to as being Russian in origin.”
12. Med shot, US Ambassador
13. Wide shot, Council
United Kingdom Ambassador Jonathan Allen today (14 Mar) told an Emergency UN Security Council briefing that Russia has not provided “any credible explanation” for the use of “Russian produced nerve agent” in the Salisbury assassination attempt of an alleged former Russian spy and his daughter.
Allen said, “the UK government concluded that it was highly likely that Russia was responsible for this reckless act” and offered “two plausible explanations.”
He said, “either this was a direct attack by Russia on my country, or Russia had lost control of a military grade nerve agent which they had developed.”
The UK Ambassador stressed that “this was no common crime,” as it was “an unlawful use of force, a violation of article 2 of the United Nations Charter, the basis of the international legal order.”
United States Ambassador Nikki Haley said, “if we don’t take immediate, concrete measures to address this now, Salisbury will not be the last place we see chemical weapons used. They could be used here in New York or in cities of any country that sits on this Council.”
Russian Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia demanded that “material proof be provided of the allegedly found Russian trace in this high resonance event.”
Without this, he said, “stating that there is incontrovertible proof, is not something that we can take seriously.”
He added that “until now we have not seen anything besides stating that this is highly likely.”
Nebenzia, said Russia “had nothing to do with this incident” and said he expected the United Kingdom “will act in strict adherence with the convention on chemical weapons and other international instruments including the European Convention on legal assistance in in criminal matters, and will provide samples of substances that the UK investigation is referring to as being Russian in origin.”
According to news reports, on 4 March, Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia, were found unconscious in a park in the town of Salisbury in the UK, likely poisoned with a nerve agent. They remain in a critical condition at a local hospital.
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