UN / LIBERMAN

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman after meeting with Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at the United Nations, tells reporters that Israel is ready to begin peace talks with Palestinians without preconditions.

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:29
• Production Date: 19 June 2009
• Asset Language: Original
• Subject Topical: POLITICAL AFFAIRS; LAW; INTERNATIONAL LAW; POLITICAL CONDITIONS; TERRITORIES OCCUPIED BY ISRAEL
• Geographic Subject: ISRAEL
• MAMS Id: U090619a

Description

STORY: UN / LIBERMAN
SOURCE: UNTV
TRT: 2.29
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/ NATS

DATELINE: 19 JUNE 2009, NEW YORK CITY/ FILE

Shotlist

FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, exterior UN building

19 JUNE 2009, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, Liberman walks to the microphone
3. Close up, reporter’s pad
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Avigdor Liberman, Foreign Minister of Israel:
“We have our position, we don’t have any precondition. I think that we have right for our position; the Palestinians have right for their position. It’s important to start with talks without precondition and every side will try to convince the other side.”
5. Med shot, cameras
SOUNDBITE (English) Avigdor Liberman, Foreign Minister of Israel:
“Settlements are not an obstacle to achieve peace. We know that even before 67, before we established even one settlement, the situation was the same. During nineteen years, between 48 and 67 it was a bloodshed, it was terror, a tension, a friction. The opposite also true. During the disengagement Israel evacuated twenty-four settlements; we transported ten-thousand Jews and we got in return Hamas in power in Gaza and Qassam missiles.”
6. Close up, reporter’s pad
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Avigdor Liberman, Foreign Minister of Israel:
“We have many understandings with Obama administration. We agree with President’s vision about regional peace. We agree on many points and we have one dispute. I think it’s very natural that even with close friends we have one disagreement and I think even in this point we can formulate understanding, we can achieve understanding.”
8. Med shot, Liberman walks away from the microphone
9. Various shots, Liberman meeting with Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon

Storyline

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman after meeting today (19 June) with Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at the United Nations, told reporters that Israel is ready to begin peace talks with Palestinians without preconditions.

He said that Israel has the “right for our position” and Palestinians have the “right for their position” adding that without preconditions “every side will try to convince the other side.”

Lieberman argued that the issue of settlement construction is “not an obstacle to achieve peace”, saying that the conflict began “before we established even one settlement” and that after “Israel evacuated twenty-four settlements” during the disengagement period, “we got in return Hamas in power in Gaza and Qassam missiles.”

The Israeli Foreign Minister acknowledged differences between the United States and Israel on this area, but pointed out that the US had many points of agreement and just “one dispute”, which he considered natural “even with close friends”.