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STORY: UN / UKRAINE
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SOURCE: UNIFEED
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DATELINE: 17 JULY 2023, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, UN Headquarters
17 JULY 2023, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Rosemary DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs:
“Over 500 days since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion, life in Ukraine remains a “living hell”, as the Secretary-General characterized it. According to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), 9,287 civilians have been killed and 16,384 injured, most under Russian armed forces fire.”
4. Med shot, Security Council
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Rosemary DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs:
“OHCHR has documented a harrowing record of human rights violations, including arbitrary deprivation of life, arbitrary detention and enforced disappearance, torture and ill-treatment, and conflict-related sexual violence. According to the latest OHCHR report, the Russian Federation arbitrarily detained 864 individual cases (763 men, 94 women and 7 boys). Many cases amounting to forced disappearance.”
6. Med shot, Security Council
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Rosemary DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs:
“As the Secretary-General stated this morning, the decision of the Russian Federation to terminate the Black Sea Initiative will strike a blow to people in need everywhere. The Secretary-General also stated that this decision will not stop our efforts to facilitate the unimpeded access to global markets for food products and fertilizers from both Ukraine and the Russian Federation.”
8. Wide shot, Security Council
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Rosemary DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs:
“The longer this war continues, the more dangerous its consequences, including the possibility of a wider conflict. For the sake of the Ukrainian people and for the sake of our global community, this senseless, unjustified war must stop.”
10. Close up, Security Council president
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, United States:
“I know Russia will continue to follow its standard playbook and deny the truth about its war of aggression. It will continue to call bogus Council meetings and invite conspiracy theorists to brief us. It truly is shameful. But what cannot be denied is this: the Ukrainian people will continue to courageously defend their country. And the United States will stand with them for as long as it takes.”
12. Med shot, Council members
13. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Dmitry Polyanskiy, First Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation:
“The Russian Federation will stand ready to consider its resumption only when concrete results are achieved rather than promises and assurances from Western capitals. And now, apparently, is the time clearly to demonstrate the state of solidarity of Kyiv European allies, who can export Ukrainian food through land corridors. For our part despite the existing obstacles, we will continue to assume our contractual obligations to provide Russian grain to all purchasers.”
14. Med shot, Council members
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Dmytro Kuleba, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Ukraine:
“Russia is blackmailing the world. This blackmail affects the lives of millions of Ukrainians and tens of millions more around the world, primarily in Africa and Asia, who face the threat of rising food prices and hunger. Ukraine makes no demands in relation to the deal. We simply wanted to continue operating and expand its capacity. We want our grain to be freely exported and reach foreign customers all around the globe. At the same time, Russia has been systemically obstructing the initiatives normal functioning.”
16. Pan right, Kuleba walks to the stakeout
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Dmytro Kuleba, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Ukraine:
“I emphasized to the Secretary General, and I'm also making this emphasis in all other conversations, that if we have the political will, we will find the way out. So in the next hours and days, there will be very intensive consultations at all levels to find a solution to this immense problem that Russia has created for the world.”
18. Pan left, Kuleba walks away from the stakeout
Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, Rosemary DiCarlo, told the Security Council that “over 500 days since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion, life in Ukraine remains a “living hell”, as the Secretary-General characterized it.”
Briefing the Council on Monday (17 Jul), DiCarlo said that, according to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), 9,287 civilians have been killed and 16,384 injured, most under Russian armed forces fire.
The Under-Secretary-General also informed that “OHCHR has documented a harrowing record of human rights violations, including arbitrary deprivation of life, arbitrary detention and enforced disappearance, torture and ill-treatment, and conflict-related sexual violence.”
She said that, according to the latest OHCHR report, “the Russian Federation arbitrarily detained 864 individual cases (763 men, 94 women and 7 boys). Many cases amounting to forced disappearance.”
Referring to the decision of the Russian Federation to terminate the Black Sea Initiative, DiCarlo noted that, as the Secretary-General stated this morning, the move “will strike a blow to people in need everywhere.”
The Under-Secretary-General added, “The Secretary-General also stated that this decision will not stop our efforts to facilitate the unimpeded access to global markets for food products and fertilizers from both Ukraine and the Russian Federation.”
“The longer this war continues, the more dangerous its consequences, including the possibility of a wider conflict. For the sake of the Ukrainian people and for the sake of our global community, this senseless, unjustified war must stop,” DiCarlo concluded.
Representing the United States, Permanent Representative Linda Thomas-Greenfield said, that “Russia will continue to follow its standard playbook and deny the truth about its war of aggression” and “will continue to call bogus Council meetings and invite conspiracy theorists to brief us”, and that “truly is shameful.”
The ambassador added, “But what cannot be denied is this: the Ukrainian people will continue to courageously defend their country. And the United States will stand with them for as long as it takes.”
Speaking about the Black Sea Initiative, the First Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Polyanskiy, said his country “will stand ready to consider its resumption only when concrete results are achieved rather than promises and assurances from Western capitals.”
“And now”, Polyanskiy added, “is the time clearly to demonstrate the state of solidarity of Kyiv European allies, who can export Ukrainian food through land corridors.”
The Permanent Representative added, “For our part despite the existing obstacles, we will continue to assume our contractual obligations to provide Russian grain to all purchasers.”
Also addressing the Council, Dmytro Kuleba, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, said that “Russia is blackmailing the world.”
According to Kuleba, “This blackmail affects the lives of millions of Ukrainians and tens of millions more around the world, primarily in Africa and Asia, who face the threat of rising food prices and hunger.”
The minister said that “Ukraine makes no demands in relation to the deal” and “simply wanted to continue operating and expand its capacity.”
“We want our grain to be freely exported and reach foreign customers all around the globe. At the same time, Russia has been systemically obstructing the initiatives normal functioning,” added Kuleba.
Speaking to journalists before the meeting, the Ukrainian minister said that he had met with the UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, and emphasized “that if we have the political will, we will find the way out.”
“So in the next hours and days, there will be very intensive consultations at all levels to find a solution to this immense problem that Russia has created for the world,” Kuleba said.
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