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OHCHR / BACHELET NAGORNO KABARAKH
STORY: OHCHR / BACHELET NAGORNO KABARAKH
TRT: 2:54
SOURCE: UNTV CH
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /NATS
DATELINE: 2 NOVEMBER 2020 GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
RECENT, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
1.Exterior shot, Palais des nations, UN Headquarters in Geneva
2 NOVEMBER 2020, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
2.SOUNDBITE (English) Liz Throssell, Spokesperson for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR):
“UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet today expressed alarm at continuing indiscriminate attacks in populated areas in and around the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone, in contravention of international humanitarian law, and warned they may amount to war crimes.”
RECENT, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
3.Exterior shot, Palais des nations, UN Headquarters in Geneva
2 NOVEMBER 2020, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
4.SOUNDBITE (English) Liz Throssell, Spokesperson for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR):
“Since the conflict reignited in September with the terrible consequences we are now seeing, there have been repeated calls, for the parties to take all feasible steps to avoid, or at the very least minimize, the loss of civilian life and damage to civilian infrastructure, including schools and hospitals – as well as to distinguish civilians from combatants, and civilian objects from military objectives. Instead, homes have been destroyed, streets reduced to rubble, and people forced to flee or seek safety in basements.”
RECENT, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
5.Exterior shot, Palais des nations, UN Headquarters in Geneva
2 NOVEMBER 2020, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
6.SOUNDBITE (English) Liz Throssell, Spokesperson for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR):
“International humanitarian law cannot be clearer. Attacks carried out in violation of the principle of distinction or the principle of proportionality may amount to war crimes, and the parties to the conflict are obliged to effectively, promptly, thoroughly and impartially investigate such violations and to prosecute those alleged to have committed them.”
RECENT, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
7.Exterior shot, Palais des nations, UN Headquarters in Geneva
2 NOVEMBER 2020, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
8.SOUNDBITE (English) Liz Throssell, Spokesperson for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR):
“The government of Azerbaijan has indicated that some 40,000 people have been temporarily displaced by the latest fighting. According to the Armenian Foreign Minister, some 90,000 ethnic Armenians from Nagorno Karabakh have fled the current hostilities and are currently in Armenia.”
RECENT, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
9.Exterior shot, Palais des nations, UN Headquarters in Geneva
2 NOVEMBER 2020, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
10.SOUNDBITE (English) Liz Throssell, Spokesperson for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR):
“The high commissioner urges all parties involved to depoliticize the issue of providing human rights and humanitarian access to all areas affected by the conflict – including by her teams to the relevant areas – so there can be effective monitoring of the human rights situation on the ground. We call once again on all parties to the conflict to uphold their obligations under international humanitarian law to protect civilians and civilian infrastructure, abiding by the principles of distinction, proportionality and precaution and avoiding the use of explosive weapons with wide area effects in populated areas.”
RECENT, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
11.Exterior shot, Palais des nations, UN Headquarters in Geneva
2 NOVEMBER 2020, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
12.SOUNDBITE (English) Liz Throssell, Spokesperson for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR):
“As the loss of life continues and the suffering of civilians deepens, we appeal again for an immediate halt in the fighting and urge all parties to abide by a humanitarian ceasefire and engage in negotiations to find a peaceful and durable solution to this conflict that has wrought so much destruction in the region.”
RECENT, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
13.Exterior shot, Palais des nations, UN Headquarters in Geneva
In a statement read by the spokesperson for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Liz Throssell on Monday (2 Nov) the High Commissioner “expressed alarm at continuing indiscriminate attacks in populated areas in and around the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone, in contravention of international humanitarian law, and warned they may amount to war crimes.”
“International humanitarian law cannot be clearer,” said Throssell. “Attacks carried out in violation of the principle of distinction or the principle of proportionality may amount to war crimes, and the parties to the conflict are obliged to effectively, promptly, thoroughly and impartially investigate such violations and to prosecute those alleged to have committed them.”
Quoting Azerbaijan’s government sources, Throssell said that some 40,000 people have been temporarily displaced by the latest fighting, while “according to the Armenian Foreign Minister, some 90,000 ethnic Armenians from Nagorno Karabakh have fled the current hostilities and are currently in Armenia.”
Throssell said “the high commissioner urges all parties involved to depoliticize the issue of providing human rights and humanitarian access to all areas affected by the conflict – including by her teams to the relevant areas – so there can be effective monitoring of the human rights situation on the ground. We call once again on all parties to the conflict to uphold their obligations under international humanitarian law to protect civilians and civilian infrastructure, abiding by the principles of distinction, proportionality and precaution and avoiding the use of explosive weapons with wide area effects in populated areas.”
“As the loss of life continues and the suffering of civilians deepens, we appeal again for an immediate halt in the fighting and urge all parties to abide by a humanitarian ceasefire and engage in negotiations to find a peaceful and durable solution to this conflict that has wrought so much destruction in the region,” she said.
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