UN / PALESTINIAN PEOPLE RIGHTS

Addressing a meeting of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, Secretary-General António Guterres said “resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict remains key to sustainable peace in the Middle East” and warned about “actions that would erode the possibility of a viable and contiguous Palestinian State based on the two-State solution and that are contrary to international law and UN resolutions.” UNIFEED

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:54
• Production Date: 4 February 2020
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: ANTONIO GUTERRES; RIYAD MANSOUR
• Corporate Name: COMMITTEE ON THE EXERCISE OF THE INALIENABLE RIGHTS OF THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE
• Subject Topical: HUMAN RIGHTS; PEACE AND SECURITY; PEACE PROCESS
• Geographic Subject: ISRAEL; PALESTINE; UNITED STATES
• MAMS Id: 2528319
• Parent Id: 2528319
• Alternate Title: unifeed200204f

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STORY: UN / PALESTINIAN PEOPLE RIGHTS
TRT: 02:54
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 04 FEBRUARY 2020, NEW YORK CITY / FILE

Shotlist

FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters

04 FEBRUARY 2020, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, conference room
3. Wide shot, Secretary-General António Guterres at the dais
4. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“We know that resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict remains key to sustainable peace in the Middle East. Its persistence reverberates far beyond Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory, and it continues to further radicalization across the region. That is why we have been repeatedly raising alerts about actions that would erode the possibility of a viable and contiguous Palestinian State based on the two-State solution and that are contrary to international law and UN resolutions. This includes expansion and acceleration of illegal settlement activities in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem as well as ongoing demolitions and seizures of Palestinian-owned property and evictions. We also have repeatedly stated that Jerusalem remains a final status issue; the city’s future can only be resolved on the basis of international law and through negotiations between the parties.”
5. Wide shot, dais
6. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“The holding of long overdue general elections in the State of Palestine, including East Jerusalem, will be a crucial step towards giving renewed legitimacy to national institutions and reuniting the Palestinian people under a single, legitimate and democratic Palestinian national government. As my Special Coordinator of the Middle East Process recently said to the Security Council, we are hopeful that the Palestinian President will very soon issue the decree scheduling legislative and presidential elections and that Israel will allow voting in East Jerusalem as well.”
7. Wide shot, dais
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Riyad H. Mansour, Permanent Observer of Palestine to the United Nations:
“We started, you know, confronting this political aggression by the US against our national rights from the moment when this administration declared that Jerusalem is the capital of the state of Israel they moved the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem in clear violation of international law and Security Council resolutions. The rest was culminated in the announcement in Washington DC few days ago in which the sovereignty between the River Jordan and the sea is for Israel and within that sovereign state there are pieces connected with each other with bridges and tunnels. They, the Palestinians can call it their own state, but in the181 pages of the plan and the maps, and the annexes, not a single time there was reference to the so-called Palestinian state as being a sovereign state.”
9. Wide shot, end of meeting

Storyline

Addressing a meeting of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, Secretary-General António Guterres said “resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict remains key to sustainable peace in the Middle East” and warned about “actions that would erode the possibility of a viable and contiguous Palestinian State based on the two-State solution and that are contrary to international law and UN resolutions.”

Guterres said these actions include “expansion and acceleration of illegal settlement activities in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem as well as ongoing demolitions and seizures of Palestinian-owned property and evictions.”

He also stressed that Jerusalem “remains a final status issue” and the city’s future “can only be resolved on the basis of international law and through negotiations between the parties.”

The Secretary-General said, “the holding of long overdue general elections in the State of Palestine, including East Jerusalem, will be a crucial step towards giving renewed legitimacy to national institutions and reuniting the Palestinian people under a single, legitimate and democratic Palestinian national government.”

He expressed hope that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas “will very soon issue the decree scheduling legislative and presidential elections and that Israel will allow voting in East Jerusalem as well.”

US President Donald Trump announced his administration’s ‘Vision for Peace, Prosperity and a Brighter Future’ at the White House last week, which would legalize Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Israel also would be allowed to annex around 30 per cent of the West Bank.