UN / UKRAINE OCCUPIED TERRITORIES

The General Assembly Tuesday held its annual debate on the situation in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine. UNIFEED.

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:05:54
• Production Date: 18 July 2023
• Asset Language: English; Russian
• Personal Subject: CSABA KŐRÖSI
• Subject Topical: PEACE AND SECURITY; WAR; WAR VICTIMS
• Geographic Subject: RUSSIAN FEDERATION; UKRAINE
• MAMS Id: 3072060
• Parent Id: 3072060
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STORY: UN / UKRAINE OCCUPIED TERRITORIES
TRT: 05:54
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / RUSSIAN / NATS

DATELINE: 18 JULY 2023, NEW YORK CITY / FILE

Shotlist

FILE - NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, UN Headquarters

18 JULY 2023, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, meeting room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Csaba Kőrösi, President, General Assembly:
“I strongly support the work of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and urge Member States to recommit to the nuclear non-proliferation regime. Nuclear rhetoric must be stopped. I must repeat what I have said before: Nuclear arms will not solve a conflict. We cannot play with a nuclear Armageddon. Let us be reminded that we cannot expect military solutions to end this war. But leadership, diplomacy, and political commitments from all sides will.”
4. Pan left, meeting room
5. SOUNDBITE (English / Russian) Csaba Kőrösi, President, General Assembly:
“But, let me appeal directly to Russia and its leaders. Я, как и многие другие, с уважением отношусь к вашей нации, культуре. Вы начали эту войну. В ваших силах положить этому конец. И, как одна из самых влиятельных, принимающих решения стран в мире, вы можете это сделать – eсли есть желание.”
[English translation]: “I, as many others, have great respect to your nation, culture. You initiated this war. You have the power to end it. And, as one of the most influential decision-makers in the world, you can do it – if you want to.”
6. Med shot, meeting room
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Dmytro Kuleba, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Ukraine:
“No kid in the world neither in Ukraine, nor in any other country in the world deserves it. No political reason can justify the tears of a child. Distinguished delegates, the Russian invasion deprived all of Ukraine's 7.5 million children of their normal lives. Almost two-thirds of them have been internally or externally displaced. Russia has killed at least 494 Ukrainian children and injured 1052 more. At least 379 have gone missing during hostilities.”
8. Med shot, meeting room
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Dmytro Kuleba, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Ukraine:
“When foreign customers get Ukrainian grain, I want them to understand that each kilogram of it was paid for with the ultimate price, the lives of our soldiers. Russia kills not only our soldiers. Yesterday, it killed the vital Grain Deal, the one that helped save millions of people from the threat of hunger. And just as we are fighting to protect life in Ukraine, we will be fighting to restore the food lifeline for the world.”
10. Wide shot, meeting room
11. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Dmitry Polyanskiy, First Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation:
“Distinguished colleagues from non-NATO and non-EU states and not from their satellites, many of you come up to us and ask what needs to be done for peace in Ukraine and how can international mediators help in this. We're grateful to all of those who sincerely want peace in Ukraine and who sympathize over what's going on. If peace depended on ordinary Ukrainians, rather than on the puppet regime in Kyiv, there would have been peace long time ago. However, Russia today is dealing first and foremost in Ukraine with Washington and its NATO allies that are waging a proxy war on Russia down to the last Ukrainian.”
12. Med shot, meeting room
13. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Dmitry Polyanskiy, First Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation:
“And now we have to solve the tasks of the special military operation militarily to demilitarize and denazify the criminal Kyiv regime, to destroy its logistics and energy infrastructure in order to weaken and nullify its military capabilities. And to ensure that never again will there be a threat to our country and our citizens.”
14. Med shot, meeting room
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Olof Skoog, Head of the Delegation of the European Union:
“Our last discussion under this agenda item was on February 23rd last year, the eve of Russia’s full-scale invasion of its neighbour. At the time, their delegation was still denying Moscow’s plan to fully invade and occupy Ukraine. Since then, over 500 days of death and destruction have passed. The EU reiterates its resolute condemnation of Russia’s unprovoked and unjustified war of aggression, which constitutes a manifest violation of international law, including the UN Charter, and the resolutions of the General Assembly.”
16. Wide shot, meeting room
17. Pan left, Kuleba walks to stakeout
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Dmytro Kuleba, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Ukraine:
“Yesterday, when I had a meeting with the Secretary-General, ahead of his phone conversation with President Zelenskyy, we literally discussed all possible options with him. And he instructed relevant departments of the Secretariat to consider possible viable options. So less than 48 hours since Russia withdrew from The Grain Initiative, we are literally still looking into every possible option. We're doing it in Kyiv, our partners are doing it in Brussels, in Washington, here at the headquarters, in Ankara. Everyone is looking for the way out.”
19. Pan right, Kuleba walks away

Storyline

The General Assembly today (18 July) held its annual debate on the situation in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.

Opening the meeting, the President of the 77th Session of the UN General Assembly, Csaba Kőrösi, said, “I strongly support the work of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and urge Member States to recommit to the nuclear non-proliferation regime.”

He stressed, “Nuclear rhetoric must be stopped.” Kőrösi reiterated, “Nuclear arms will not solve a conflict. We cannot play with a nuclear Armageddon.”

Kőrösi continued, “Let us be reminded that we cannot expect military solutions to end this war. But leadership, diplomacy, and political commitments from all sides will.”

In his appeal to Russia and its leaders, he said, “I, as many others, have great respect to your nation, culture. You initiated this war. You have the power to end it.”

Kőrösi concluded, “And, as one of the most influential decision-makers in the world, you can do it – if you want to.”

Also addressing the General Assembly, Dmytro Kuleba, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, said, “No kid in the world neither in Ukraine, nor in any other country in the world deserves it. No political reason can justify the tears of a child.”

According to him, “the Russian invasion deprived all of Ukraine's 7.5 million children of their normal lives. Almost two-thirds of them have been internally or externally displaced.”

Kuleba continued, “Russia has killed at least 494 Ukrainian children and injured 1052 more. At least 379 have gone missing during hostilities.”

Speaking about the Black Sea Initiative, Kuleba said, “When foreign customers get Ukrainian grain, I want them to understand that each kilogram of it was paid for with the ultimate price, the lives of our soldiers.”

He noted, “Russia kills not only our soldiers. Yesterday, it killed the vital Grain Deal, the one that helped save millions of people from the threat of hunger.”

The minister said that “just as we are fighting to protect life in Ukraine, we will be fighting to restore the food lifeline for the world.”

The First Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Polyanskiy, said, “Distinguished colleagues from non-NATO and non-EU states and not from their satellites, many of you come up to us and ask what needs to be done for peace in Ukraine and how can international mediators help in this. We're grateful to all of those who sincerely want peace in Ukraine and who sympathize over what's going on.”

He continued, “If peace depended on ordinary Ukrainians, rather than on the puppet regime in Kyiv, there would have been peace long time ago.”

According to Polyanskiy, “Russia today is dealing first and foremost in Ukraine with Washington and its NATO allies that are waging a proxy war on Russia down to the last Ukrainian.”

The First Deputy Permanent Representative also said, “And now we have to solve the tasks of the special military operation militarily to demilitarize and denazify the criminal Kyiv regime, to destroy its logistics and energy infrastructure in order to weaken and nullify its military capabilities.”

He concluded, “to ensure that never again will there be a threat to our country and our citizens.”

Olof Skoog, Head of the Delegation of the European Union, said, “Our last discussion under this agenda item was on February 23rd last year, the eve of Russia’s full-scale invasion of its neighbour.” He continued, “At the time, their delegation was still denying Moscow’s plan to fully invade and occupy Ukraine.”

Skoog also noted, “Since then, over 500 days of death and destruction have passed.” He stated, “The EU reiterates its resolute condemnation of Russia’s unprovoked and unjustified war of aggression, which constitutes a manifest violation of international law, including the UN Charter, and the resolutions of the General Assembly.”

Speaking to journalists outside the General Assembly, Ukraine’s Minister for Foreign Affairs said, “Yesterday, when I had a meeting with the Secretary-General, ahead of his phone conversation with President Zelenskyy, we literally discussed all possible options with him.”
He continued, “And he instructed relevant departments of the Secretariat to consider possible viable options.”

Kuleba concluded, “So less than 48 hours since Russia withdrew from The Grain Initiative, we are literally still looking into every possible option. We're doing it in Kyiv, our partners are doing it in Brussels, in Washington, here at the headquarters, in Ankara. Everyone is looking for the way out.”