UN / LIBYA

German Ambassador Christoph Heusgen called on the Security Council to come up with “a strong resolution” on Libya and added that “by not having this right now, is something that is frustrating.” UNIFEED

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:26
• Production Date: 18 April 2019
• Asset Language: English
• Corporate Name: SECURITY COUNCIL; UNITED NATIONS SUPPORT MISSION IN LIBYA - UNSMIL
• Subject Topical: CONFLICT SITUATION
• Geographic Subject: LIBYA
• MAMS Id: 2381763
• Parent Id: 2381763
• Alternate Title: unifeed190418l

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STORY: UN / LIBYA
TRT: 01:26
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 18 APRIL 2019, NEW YORK CITY / FILE

Shotlist

FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters

18 APRIL 2019, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, German Ambassador Christoph Heusgen approaches reporters
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Christoph Heusgen, Permanent Representative of Germany to the United Nations:
“We want to have a strong resolution, and a strong resolution with a united Council. Everybody behind it where clearly we say who is responsible and what needs to be done, and a strong resolution and by not having this right now, is something that is frustrating.”
4. Med shot, Heusgen talking to reporters
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Christoph Heusgen, Permanent Representative of Germany to the United Nations:
“We need to send this very strong message to the population that is desperate and when you hear now Grad rockets falling into civilian quarters, we need a strong voice from New York.”
6. Med shot, Heusgen talking to reporters
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Christoph Heusgen, Permanent Representative of Germany to the United Nations:
“It’s very important that in this resolution also the question the arms embargo is being raised.”
8. Med shot, Heusgen talking to reporters
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Christoph Heusgen, Permanent Representative of Germany to the United Nations:
“He described the humanitarian situation on the ground, which again is dire with almost 200 dead and hundreds injured, and many people displaced. And then he described where they stand with regard to the return to a political process where so far there is no progress.”
10. Wide shot, Heusgen talking to reporters

Storyline

German Ambassador Christoph Heusgen today (18 Apr) called on the Security Council to come up with “a strong resolution” on Libya and added that “by not having this right now, is something that is frustrating.”

Heusgen said, “we need to send this very strong message to the population that is desperate and when you hear now Grad rockets falling into civilian quarters, we need a strong voice from New York.”

The German Ambassador, who is presiding the Council during the month of April, said, “it’s very important that in this resolution also the question the arms embargo is being raised.”

Members of the Council were briefed via video link from Tripoli by the Secretary General’s Representative in Libya, Ghassan Salamé.

Heusgen said Salamé “described the humanitarian situation on the ground, which again is dire with almost 200 dead and hundreds injured, and many people displaced.”

On the political front, he said, “so far there is no progress.”

Libyan National Army (LNA) forces loyal to Khalifa Haftar launched an attack on Tripoli on 4 April, upending a national peace conference initially scheduled for April 14-16.