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STORY: UN / LIBYA
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SOURCE: UNIFEED
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / ARABIC / NATS
DATELINE: 18 NOVEMBER 2019, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
18 NOVEMBER 2019, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council with Ghassan Salamé on screen
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Ghassan Salamé, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya:
“Seven-and-a-half months into the conflict in Libya, and given the recent dangerous escalation in the hostilities in and around Tripoli, we find ourselves ever more in a race against time to reach a peaceful solution that would spare many lives.”
5. Wide shot, Council
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Ghassan Salamé, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya:
“It is somewhat of a cliché to say that the weeks ahead are critical, but once again, it is true for Libya. External investment in the conflict risks surpassing the amount of national involvement, taking control of Libya’s future away from the Libyans and putting it in the hands of foreign parties. Once invited in, foreign intervention is the guest that settles and seizes control of the house.”
7. Med shot, delegate
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Ghassan Salamé, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya:
“Ending the conflict and agreeing to the way forward is a realistic prospect. The parties are known, the outlines of the agreement are known, options for a temporary or longer-term constitutional Framework exist, electoral legislation has been produced before. It is all eminently possible. All that is needed now is for you, the international community, to come together to provide the necessary umbrella for the Libyan parties themselves to join hands to end the conflict and resume dialogue.”
9. Med shot, Council President
10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohamed Sayala, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Libya:
“This situation, as you know, is a result of the disagreements over the situation in Libya in this Council, whose members should all work to reach a form of an agreement through which atrocities and crimes in my country can be stopped, and to follow a unified strategy that would face up to those who are trying to prevent Libyans from reaching an agreement to unify them to start the process of building a modern state.”
11. Wide shot, Council
Briefing the Security Council via teleconference, the Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), Ghassan Salamé, today (18 Nov) said that “seven-and-a-half months into the conflict in Libya, and given the recent dangerous escalation in the hostilities in and around Tripoli, we find ourselves ever more in a race against time to reach a peaceful solution that would spare many lives.”
Salamé said it was “somewhat of a cliché to say that the weeks ahead are critical, but once again, it is true for Libya.”
He said, “external investment in the conflict risks surpassing the amount of national involvement, taking control of Libya’s future away from the Libyans and putting it in the hands of foreign parties.”
Once invited in, he added, “foreign intervention is the guest that settles and seizes control of the house.”
Salamé said, “ending the conflict and agreeing to the way forward is a realistic prospect,” as “the parties are known, the outlines of the agreement are known, options for a temporary or longer-term constitutional Framework exist” and “electoral legislation has been produced before.”
He said all that is needed is for the international community “to come together to provide the necessary umbrella for the Libyan parties themselves to join hands to end the conflict and resume dialogue.”
The Libyan Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mohamed Sayala, told the Council that the current situation “is a result of the disagreements over the situation in Libya in this Council, whose members should all work to reach a form of an agreement through which atrocities and crimes in my country can be stopped, and to follow a unified strategy that would face up to those who are trying to prevent Libyans from reaching an agreement to unify them to start the process of building a modern state.”
A biscuit factory in the Wadi Rabi’a neighbourhood of Tripoli was hit by an air strike today, reportedly causing ten fatalities and over 35 injuries.
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