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STORY: UN / PERES WRAP
SOURCE: UNTV
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 20 SEPTEMBER 2010, NEW YORK CITY/ FILE
FILE - RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior UN building
20 SEPTEMBER 2010, NEW YORK CITY
2. Various shots, Peres’ arrival
3. Wide shot, Peres at the General Assembly podium
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Simon Peres, President of Israel:
“History was written in blood. Most wars were waged over territory. Today science, creativity and knowledge replaced land as the most important source of wealth.”
5. Zoom in, General Assembly podium
FILE - RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
6. Close up, reporter’s note pad
20 SEPTEMBER 2010, NEW YORK CITY
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Shimon Peres, President of Israel:
“I said about Ahmadinejad, that he is a living declaration against the charter of the United Nations. According to that charter, one member cannot threaten another member that it is going to destroy it. Here comes a man who calls for the destruction which is a member of the United Nations. Not only does he call for it, but he supplies arms to every terrorist organization in the Middle East.”
FILE - RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
8. Close up, reporter’s note pad
20 SEPTEMBER 2010, NEW YORK CITY
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Shimon Peres, President of Israel:
“Our Prime Minister declared a moratorium, out of his own initiative for ten months. Unfortunately those ten months were not used and the time came for the expiration of it. We are looking now at how to redraw that. We didn’t find yet a solution, but we are in search of it. As an old hand in negotiations, I am not surprised that from time to time you encounter hurdles and impasses and you have to mobilize creativity and ingenuity to overcome it.”
FILE - RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
10. Close up, reporter’s note pad
20 SEPTEMBER 2010, NEW YORK CITY
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Shimon Peres, President of Israel:
“There was a proposal that President Gül and myself would meet, I agreed. But them I got some conditions which made this meeting, in my judgement, not a positive one. Now, we didn’t change our attitude to Turkey. We were friends, we remain friends. Maybe Turkey changed her mind, and that’s for the Turks to decide.”
FILE - RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
12. Close up, reporter’s note pad
20 SEPTEMBER 2010, NEW YORK CITY
13. Med shot, Peres walks away
Israeli President Shimon Peres addressed the General Assembly today (20 September) on the first day of the High-Level Plenary Meeting on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Peres opened his address saying that “history was written in blood” as nations fought over territory, but argued that today, science, creativity and knowledge have “replaced land as the most important source of wealth” and can help to find solutions to the world’s problems and eradicate poverty.
After his speech to the Assembly, he told reporters that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was a “living declaration against the charter of the United Nations”, who not only called for Israel’s destruction of but also supplied arms to “every terrorist organization in the Middle East.”
Speaking about the latest round of talks between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, which are being threatened by the expiration of an Israeli moratorium on the construction of Jewish settlements in the West Bank, Peres said that “unfortunately” the ten month period had come to an end but negotiators were “looking now at how to redraw that.”
He added that “as an old hand in negotiations” he was “not surprised that from time to time you encounter hurdles and impasses and you have to mobilize creativity and ingenuity to overcome it.”
A permanent end of settlement activity is a requirement of the Quartet’s road map plan for the Middle East peace process.
Commenting on a cancelled meeting with Turkish President Abdullah Gul at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York, he said that he had originally agreed to it, but Turkish conditions made the meeting, in his judgement, “not a positive one.”
The Israeli President noted that his country hasn’t changed its attitude to Turkey, but “maybe Turkey changed her mind, and that’s for the Turks to decide.”
The main condition presented by Turkey was that Israel apologizes for the deadly raid on a Turkish-led aid flotilla to the Gaza Strip, which intended to breach Israel’s blockade.
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