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DATELINE: 09 OCTOBER 2023, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior, United Nations Headquarters
09 OCTOBER 2023, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, delegates, Security Council
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Rosemary DiCarlo, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, United Nations:
“The new year has brought no respite to Ukraine. On the contrary, in recent weeks, the country has been suffering some of the worst attacks since the beginning of the illegal war. Over the holiday period, Russian missiles and drones targeted numerous locations across the country.”
4. Med shot, delegates and DiCarlo
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Rosemary DiCarlo, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, United Nations:
“Amid the nearly unrelenting grim news from the war, one recent development stood out as positive. On 3 January, a long-awaited exchange of more than 200 prisoners of war on each side took place between Ukraine and the Russian Federation. This was the largest such exchange since February 2022. As the Secretary-General noted, we commend the efforts of both parties and the third-party facilitation by the United Arab Emirates. While acknowledging this positive development, we remain gravely concerned about the situation of the remaining prisoners of war.”
6. Med shot, delegates and Director of Operations and Advocacy, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Edem Wosornu, Director of Operations and Advocacy, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:
“Since February 2022 more than 10,200 – including 575 children have been killed, and those injured over 19,300. Among them are nearly a dozen civilians killed in a series of strikes on Pokrovsk District, in Donetsk Region, among them five children.”
8. Wide shot, Security Council
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Edem Wosornu, Director of Operations and Advocacy, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:
“Across the country, attacks and extreme weather left millions of people in a record 1,000 villages and towns without electricity or water at the beginning of this week, as temperatures dropped to below minus 15 degrees Celsius. Amid this turmoil, the people of Ukraine have continued to demonstrate extraordinary resilience. The emergency services, volunteers, and family members work tirelessly to free people from under the rubble of damaged buildings, or to recover the bodies of those killed, so they can receive the dignity of a funeral and proper interment.”
10. Wide shot, Security Council
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Edem Wosornu, Director of Operations and Advocacy, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:
“As reported by Russian Federation authorities and discussed in this Council on 30 December, last year, recent attacks on Belgorod Oblast – not far from the Ukrainian border – caused the death of at least 25 civilians in Russia, including five children, and injuries to over 100. The attacks also reportedly resulted in damage to civilian infrastructure, including a university building. Let me reiterate that international humanitarian law must be strictly respected at all times.”
12. Med shot, US Representative
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert A. Wood, Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Alternate Representative for Special Political Affairs, United States:
“This morning, the United States, along with France, Japan, Malta, the Republic of Korea, Slovenia, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom issued a joint statement condemning the military cooperation that is now come to fruition between the DPRK and Russia. It’s abhorrent that a permanent member of the UN Security Council is flagrantly violating Council resolutions to attack another UN Member State – violations that further the suffering of the Ukrainian people, support Russia’s brutal war, and undermine the global nonproliferation regime.”
14. Med shot, Russian Permanent Representative
15. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Vasily Nebenzya, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Russian Federation:
“In the last days the head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell, and the Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs said that it is necessary to broaden military assistance to Kyiv and supply long range missiles. The US administration is fighting to continue providing military assistance to Kyiv, their battling in out with the Congress and with their own people, ordinary Americans. Yet it has been cynically stated that the Ukrainian armed forces are choosing their own targets. Americans and Europeans should know that these weapons are being used to hit Christmas markets, residential buildings, women, the elderly and children.”
16. Med shot, Ukrainian Permanent Representative sitting
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Sergiy Kyslytsya, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ukraine:
“It is a matter of alarm that, among other things, Russia maintains its capacity to harm Ukrainians from a safe distance, beyond the reach of our defensive means, due to the ongoing supply of weapons and munitions from rogue states.”
18. Wide shot, meeting ended
Briefing the Security Council today (10 Jan) on the situation in Ukraine, Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, Rosemary DiCarlo, said, “the new year has brought no respite to Ukraine, on the contrary, in recent weeks, the country has been suffering some of the worst attacks since the beginning of the illegal war.”
DiCarlo said, “over the holiday period, Russian missiles and drones targeted numerous locations across the country.”
She continued, “Amid the nearly unrelenting grim news from the war, one recent development stood out as positive. On 3 January, a long-awaited exchange of more than 200 prisoners of war on each side took place between Ukraine and the Russian Federation. This was the largest such exchange since February 2022.”
She added, “as the Secretary-General noted, we commend the efforts of both parties and the third-party facilitation by the United Arab Emirates.”
DiCarlo noted, “while acknowledging this positive development, we remain gravely concerned about the situation of the remaining prisoners of war.”
Edem Wosornu, Director of Operations and Advocacy from the UN humanitarian affairs office spoke on behalf of the Humanitarian Coordinator Martin Griffiths.
She said, “Since February 2022 more than 10,200 – including 575 children have been killed, and those injured over 19,300. Among them are nearly a dozen civilians killed in a series of strikes on Pokrovsk District, in Donetsk Region, among them five children.”
She also said, “Across the country, attacks and extreme weather left millions of people in a record 1,000 villages and towns without electricity or water at the beginning of this week, as temperatures dropped to below minus 15 degrees Celsius.”
Wosornu added, “amid this turmoil, the people of Ukraine have continued to demonstrate extraordinary resilience.”
She continued, “The emergency services, volunteers, and family members work tirelessly to free people from under the rubble of damaged buildings, or to recover the bodies of those killed, so they can receive the dignity of a funeral and proper interment.”
She also said, “as reported by Russian Federation authorities and discussed in this Council on 30 December, last year, recent attacks on Belgorod Oblast – not far from the Ukrainian border – caused the death of at least 25 civilians in Russia, including five children, and injuries to over 100. The attacks also reportedly resulted in damage to civilian infrastructure, including a university building.”
Wosornu reiterated, “international humanitarian law must be strictly respected at all times.”
US Ambassador Robert Wood said, “This morning, the United States, along with France, Japan, Malta, the Republic of Korea, Slovenia, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom issued a joint statement condemning the military cooperation that is now come to fruition between the DPRK and Russia.”
He added, “It’s abhorrent that a permanent member of the UN Security Council is flagrantly violating Council resolutions to attack another UN Member State – violations that further the suffering of the Ukrainian people, support Russia’s brutal war, and undermine the global nonproliferation regime.”
Representing his country, the Russian Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Vasily Nebenzya, said, “In the last days the head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell, and the Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs said that it is necessary to broaden military assistance to Kyiv and supply long range missiles.”
He continued, “the US administration is fighting to continue providing military assistance to Kyiv, their battling in out with the Congress and with their own people, ordinary Americans. Yet it has been cynically stated that the Ukrainian armed forces are choosing their own targets.”
Nebenzya added, “Americans and Europeans should know that these weapons are being used to hit Christmas markets, residential buildings, women, the elderly and children.”
Sergiy Kyslytsya, Ukrainian Permanent Representative to the United Nations, said, “it is a matter of alarm that, among other things, Russia maintains its capacity to harm Ukrainians from a safe distance, beyond the reach of our defensive means, due to the ongoing supply of weapons and munitions from rogue states.”
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