UN / BARAK

Israel's Minister of Defense Ehud Barak meets with Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to discuss the Quartet and developments in the region. Commenting on Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's speech to remain in power until September, he said "it's up to the Egyptian people to find their way." UNTV

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:40
• Production Date: 10 February 2011
• Asset Language: Original
• Subject Topical: POLITICAL CONDITIONS; POLITICAL MOVEMENTS; INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; PEACE AND SECURITY
• Geographic Subject: MIDDLE EAST
• MAMS Id: U110210a

Description

STORY: UN / BARAK
TRT: 1.40
SOURCE: UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 10 FEBRUARY 2011, NEW YORK CITY

Shotlist

RECENT 2010, UNITED NATIONS NORTH LAWN BUILDING, NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, Ehud Barak and Ban ki-moon photo-op
2. Zoom out, round table with Ehd Barak and Ban ki-moon
3. Cutaway, journalist
4. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Ehud Barak, Minister of Defense, State of Israel:
“I think that we should mot pretend that we are more important than their own. I don’t think that I have to respond on this. Its up to the Egyptian people to find their way, and to do it according to their own constitution norms and practices.”
5. Wide shot, journalist
6. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Ehud Barak, Minister of Defense, State of Israel:
“I think that a peace process can emerge only from a dialogue between the partners ultimately, especially between us and Palestinians, we are already about 20 years into these negotiations. And I think that recently we approved a set of confidence building measures on the ground both in Gaza and in the West Bank in order to move ahead with the actual building of institutions and kind of state in embryo led by Abu Mazar Prime Minister Fayad.”
7. Wide shot, journalist
8. Wide shot, Ehud Barak walks away

Storyline

Israel’s Minister of Defense Ehud Barak met with United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today (10 Feb) in New York to discuss the Middle East Quartet and developments in the region.

Following the meeting he was asked for his reaction to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s speech to the country where he stated that he would remain in power until September. Barak said “it’s up to the Egyptian people to find their way.”

And when asked about peace negotiations in the region, he said “a peace process can emerge only from a dialogue between the partners ultimately, especially between us and Palestinians, we are already about 20 years into these negotiations.”

He added that recently a set of confidence building measures had been approved on the ground both in Gaza and in the West Bank in order to move ahead with the actual building of institutions.

Earlier, Barak attended a commemoration of the Holocaust ceremony in the General Assembly.