UN / CHINA RUSSIA REAX

Chinese Ambassador Zhang Jun told reporters that “the unilateral, risk-taking,” military actions of the United States in Iraq, “violated basic norms of international relations.” He urged the United States “not to abuse any further use of force.” UNIFEED

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:09
• Production Date: 6 January 2020
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: DONALD J. TRUMP
• Corporate Name: SECURITY COUNCIL
• Subject Topical: ASSASSINATION; PEACE AND SECURITY
• Geographic Subject: CHINA; IRAN; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; UNITED STATES
• MAMS Id: 2519721
• Parent Id: 2519721
• Alternate Title: unifeed200106c

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STORY: UN / CHINA RUSSIA REAX
TRT: 02:09
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 06 JANUARY 2020, NEW YORK CITY / FILE

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FILE - NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, UNHQ exterior

06 JANUARY 2020, NEW YORK CITY

2. Pan left, Ambassador Zhang Jun walks up to reporters
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Zhang Jun, Permanent Representative of China to the United Nations:
“The unilateral, risk-taking, military actions of the United States violated basic norms of international relations and led to the provocation of the tension. And for China, we urge the United States not to abuse any further use of force. And we also call on all relevant parties to exercise maximum restraint.”
4. Med shot, Zhang Jun talking to reporters.
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Zhang Jun, Permanent Representative of China to the United Nations:
“The situation there remains very sensitive, fragile, or even dangerous. At this moment, I think the most urgency for us, for the whole international community to do is to prevent the further escalation of the tension.”
6. Med shot, Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia walks up to reporters
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Vassily Nebenzia, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations:
“As a principle, we condemn strongly any attack on any embassy anywhere in the world, whatever country it is. And we strongly condemn the attack on the American Embassy in Baghdad. And the press statement, the presidential statement, was nearly ready, it was agreed upon, at least with us, with the US, when the strike of the 3rd of January came in the Baghdad airport. Not to take that and to ignore it, and not to take that into account in the whole context was impossible, and we said that we can propose amendments to the presidential statemen, but those amendments surely will not be acceptable to our US colleagues.”
8. Pan left, Nebenzia walks away

Storyline

Chinese Ambassador Zhang Jun today (6 Jan) told reporters that “the unilateral, risk-taking,” military actions of the United States in Iraq, “violated basic norms of international relations.” He urged the United States “not to abuse any further use of force.”

Zhang also called “on all relevant parties to exercise maximum restraint.”

He said, “the situation there remains very sensitive, fragile, or even dangerous. At this moment, I think the most urgency for us, for the whole international community to do is to prevent the further escalation of the tension.”

Also speaking to reporters, Russian Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia explained that a presidential statement condemning the attack on the US embassy in Baghdad, “was nearly ready, it was agreed upon, at least with us, with the US, when the strike of the 3rd of January came in the Baghdad airport.”

Nebenzia said that following this incident, “not to take that into account in the whole context was impossible, and we said that we can propose amendments to the presidential statemen, but those amendments surely will not be acceptable to our US colleagues.”

Following an attack on the US embassy in Baghdad, on 3rd January, a US drone killed Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani at Baghdad airport.