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UN / UKRAINE CHILDREN USA
STORY: UN / UKRAINE CHILDREN USA
TRT: 02:25
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 05 APRIL 2023, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, United Nations Headquarters
05 APRIL 2023, NEW YORK CITY
2. Pan left, Ambassador walk up to the stakeout podium
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Representative to the United Nations, United States:
“As Russia takes on the presidency of the Security Council, we will use every opportunity to push back on their using their perch in the chair to spread disinformation, and to use their chair to push support of their efforts. So it’s for that reason today that we have opposed their Arria-formula briefer, a woman who has been charged with war crimes, who has been involved in deporting and removal of children from their homes to Russia. And we strongly are opposed to that. And that’s why we've joined the UK in blocking UN WebTV from being used to allow her to have an international podium to spread disinformation and to try to defend her horrible actions that are taking place in Ukraine.”
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
4. Close up, camera
05 APRIL 2023, NEW YORK CITY
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Representative to the United Nations, United States:
“Generally, we don’t oppose UN Web being used. We were being used, we were disturbed that China used it in our Arria to block the fact of the Arria being used, but for this purpose we do not support it being used by an individual to brief that we know has committed war crimes.”
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
6. Med shot, camera
05 APRIL 2023, NEW YORK CITY
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Representative to the United Nations, United States:
“As you've heard other ambassadors and not attending and I, nor any of my ambassadors, will be sitting in the chair. We will have an expert sitting in the chair who has been instructed to walk out when the briefer that we've objected to is speaking.”
7. Wide shot, Ambassador walks away
United States Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield told reporters in New York, “as Russia takes on the presidency of the Security Council, we will use every opportunity to push back on their using their perch in the chair to spread disinformation, and to use their chair to push support of their efforts. So it’s for that reason today that we have opposed their Arria-formula briefer, a woman who has been charged with war crimes.”
Briefing journalists in today (05 Apr), she also said “that’s why we've joined the UK in blocking UN Web from being used to allow her to have an international podium to spread disinformation and to try to defend her horrible actions that are taking place in Ukraine.”
Thomas-Greenfield stressed, “Generally, we don't oppose UN Web.” She explained, “we were disturbed that China used it in our Arria to block the fact of the Arria being used.”
She continued, “but for this purpose, we do not support it being used by an individual to brief that we know has committed war crimes.”
Thomas-Greenfield concluded,”As you've heard other ambassadors and not attending and I, nor any of my ambassadors, will be sitting in the chair. We will have an expert sitting in the chair who has been instructed to walk out when the briefer that we've objected to is speaking.”
The UK has blocked the UN WebTV of an informal Security Council meeting where Russia's Commissioner for Children's Rights, Maria Lvova-Belova, was one of the briefers.
"Arria-formula meetings" are informal, confidential gatherings which enable Security Council members to have a frank and private exchange of views, within a flexible procedural framework, with persons whom the inviting member or members of the Council believe it would be beneficial to hear and/or to whom they may wish to convey a message.
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