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UN / THREATS TO INTERNATIONAL PEACE AND SECURITY
STORY: UN / THREATS TO INTERNATIONAL PEACE AND SECURITY
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DATELINE: 30 DECEMBER 2023, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior, United Nations Headquarters
30 DECEMBER 2023, NEW YORK CITY
2. Various shots, Security Council
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Khaled Khiari, Assistant Secretary-General for Middle East, Asia and the Pacific, Departments of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and Peace Operations:
“As we have repeatedly warned, the latest series of attacks is a stark and vivid reminder of the very real dangers of further escalation and spillover of this war. We reiterate the Secretary General’s appeals for de escalation of tensions and for an end to attacks on civilians, population centres, residential areas, civilian and energy infrastructure.”
4. Wide shot, Security Council
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Khaled Khiari, Assistant Secretary-General for Middle East, Asia and the Pacific, Departments of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and Peace Operations:
“We unequivocally condemn all attacks on cities town and villages in Ukraine and in the Russian Federation. Attacks against civilians and civilian infrastructure violate international humanitarian law, are unacceptable and must end now. Protection of civilians must be the main priority. The fighting and bloodshed must cease, the war must come to an end.”
6. Wide shot, Security Council
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Khaled Khiari, Assistant Secretary-General for Middle East, Asia and the Pacific, Departments of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and Peace Operations:
“The United Nations is not in a position to independently verify the various reported attacks or casualty figures.”
8. Wide shot, Security Council
9. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Vasily Nebenzya, Permanent Representative of Russia to the United Nations:
“Where today are all those people who represent member countries of the EU, who lined up to take part in the Council's meeting on Ukraine in order to carry out their worn-out propaganda in front of the cameras? Where is Czechia representative - the country whose missiles killed civilians in Belgorod? We tried to invite today, the Czech PR to take part in this meeting, but he declined out of cowardice. And this means it's one thing to take part in this Council meetings convened by the Kyiv regime and its sponsors to promote anti-Russian propaganda. But it's really a different story when you have to answer for the act of your own government. I'd like the citizens of Czechia as well as other western States, the vast majority of which are not hostile to Russia to understand where their money is going, and what crimes their governments are complicit in.”
10. Wide shot, Security Council
11. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Vasily Nebenzya, Permanent Representative of Russia to the United Nations:
“All those responsible for this and other Kyiv crimes will be punished inevitably. And we call on all responsible governments and international bodies to decisively condemned this brutal terrorist attack carried out using cluster munitions that are banned in most Western countries and distance themselves from the Kyiv regime and their western sponsors that have carried out these crimes.”
12. Various shots, Security Council
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Thomas Patrick Phipps, First Secretary, UK Permanent Mission to the United Nations:
“President, first Russia blamed Ukraine for the strikes. Then they tried to demand for Czechia appear before this council. Now the Russian Ambassador is blaming the UK, the US and the EU. If Russia wants someone to blame for the deaths of Russians in this war, it should start with President Putin. President Putin is responsible for sending many thousands of Russian servicemen and women to bear needless deaths.”
14. Wide shot, Security Council
15. SOUNDBITE (English) John Kelley, Political Minister Counselor, United States Mission to the United Nations:
“As long as Russia persists, the United States will support Ukraine's effort to defend itself, in line with article 51 of the UN Charter, and consistent with its obligations under international humanitarian law. Civilians are protected under the law of war and we call for the protection of all civilians, on all sides of every conflict. All parties to a conflict must take feasible precautions to minimize civilian harm.”
16. Wide shot, Security Council
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Serhii Dvornyk, Counsellor and Political Coordinator at Permanent Mission of Ukraine to the United Nations:
“There is only one way to stop the human suffering and destruction caused by the war - to stop the war itself. And it's baffling that such a simple idea, natural for any diplomats eludes the minds of members of the Russian delegation who identify themselves as diplomats.”
18. Wide shot, Security Council
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Serhii Dvornyk, Counsellor and Political Coordinator at Permanent Mission of Ukraine to the United Nations:
“The Russian Federation should make the only just decision as outlined by the UNGA Resolution of 23rd February 2023, principles of the Charter of the United Nations underlying a comprehensive just and lasting peace in Ukraine. This decision can be made immediately by just one person in the Kremlin - to seize aggression, to withdraw troops from the territory of Ukraine and to prepare for what usually follows the end of war - accountability and reparations.”
20. Wide shot, Security Council
As the war in Ukraine has further escalated overnight, UN Assistant Secretary-General Khaled Khiari reiterated the Secretary-General’s appeals for “de-escalation of tensions and for an end to attacks on civilians, population centres, residential areas, civilian and energy infrastructure.”
Assistant Secretary-General Khiari today (30 Dec) spoke at an emergency Security Council meeting following reported attacks on Belgorod, a Russian city.
According to the Russian authorities, as a result of Ukrainian missile and rocket strikes on the city of Belgorod which lies 30 kilometres from the Ukrainian border at least 14 civilians including two children were reportedly killed A t least 108 others, including 15 children were reportedly injured.
The Russian military authorities also reported separate overnight Ukrainian drone attacks in the Bryansk Oryol, Kursk and Moscow region s of the Russian Federation.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian authorities reported new overnight Russian drone attacks targeting the Kherson region.
The Assistant Secretary-General told Council Members, “The United Nations is not in a position to independently verify the various reported attacks or casualty figures.”
Khiari said, “As we have repeatedly warned, the latest series of attacks is a stark and vivid reminder of the very real dangers of further escalation and spillover of this war.”
The UN senior official also said, “We unequivocally condemn all attacks on cities town and villages in Ukraine and in the Russian Federation. Attacks against civilians and civilian infrastructure violate international humanitarian law, are unacceptable and must end now. Protection of civilians must be the main priority.”
“The fighting and bloodshed must cease, the war must come to an end,” Khiari concluded.
Russian Ambassador Vasily Nebenzya asked the Council, “Where today are all those people who represent member countries of the EU, who lined up to take part in the Council's meeting on Ukraine in order to carry out their worn out propaganda in front of the cameras? Where is Czechia representative - the country whose missiles killed civilians in Belgorod?”
He continued, “We tried to invite today, the Czech PR to take part in this meeting, but he declined out of cowardice.”
Ambassador Nebenzya added, “this means it's one thing to take part in this Council meetings convened by the Kyiv regime and its sponsors to promote anti-Russian propaganda. But it's really a different story when you have to answer for the act of your own government.”
He said, “I'd like the citizens of Czechia as well as other western States, the vast majority of which are not hostile to Russia to understand where their money is going, and what crimes their governments are complicit in.”
“All those responsible for this and other Kyiv crimes will be punished inevitably,” the Russian Ambassador reiterated.
He called on “all responsible governments and international bodies to decisively condemned this brutal terrorist attack carried out using cluster munitions that are banned in most Western countries and distance themselves from the Kyiv regime and their western sponsors that have carried out these crimes.”
UK Representative Thomas Patrick Phipps also spoke at the Council.
He said, “first Russia blamed Ukraine for the strikes. Then they tried to demand for Czechia appear before this council. Now the Russian Ambassador is blaming the UK, the US and the EU.”
“If Russia wants someone to blame for the deaths of Russians in this war, it should start with President Putin. President Putin is responsible for sending many thousands of Russian servicemen and women to bear needless deaths,” Phipps added.
John Kelley, Political Minister Counselor at the United States Mission to the UN told Council Members, “As long as Russia persists, the United States will support Ukraine's effort to defend itself, in line with article 51 of the UN Charter, and consistent with its obligations under international humanitarian law.”
He continued, “Civilians are protected under the law of war and we call for the protection of all civilians, on all sides of every conflict. All parties to a conflict must take feasible precautions to minimize civilian harm.”
Ukrainian senior official Serhii Dvornyk said, “There is only one way to stop the human suffering and destruction caused by the war - to stop the war itself.”
He added, “it's baffling that such a simple idea, natural for any diplomats eludes the minds of members of the Russian delegation who identify themselves as diplomats.”
The Ukrainian Counsellor also said, “The Russian Federation should make the only just decision as outlined by the UNGA Resolution of 23rd February 2023, principles of the Charter of the United Nations underlying a comprehensive just and lasting peace in Ukraine.”
He reiterated, “This decision can be made immediately by just one person in the Kremlin - to seize aggression, to withdraw troops from the territory of Ukraine and to prepare for what usually follows the end of war - accountability and reparations.”
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