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GA / LIBYA SUSPENSION
STORY: GA / LIBYA SUSPENSION
TRT: 2.21
SOURCE: UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 1 MARCH 2011, NEW YORK CITY/ FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior UN building
1 MARCH 2011, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, General Assembly
3. Med shot, General Assembly podium
4. Wide shot, General Assembly podium
5. Wide shot, Secretary-General walks to the podium
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“The world has spoken with one voice: we demand an immediate end to the violence against civilians and full respect for their fundamental human rights, including those of peaceful assembly and free speech. I welcome, as well, the recommendation of the Human Rights Council to suspend Libya’s membership so long as the violence continues.”
7. Various shots, delegates
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“The UN Charter is very clear: it is our collective duty to stand for human rights, social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom. Equally important: for much of their history, the societies of this region have been victim to outside interference in their daily lives and culture. Today, as they strive to create a new future change, it is imperative that the international community recognize that change must come from within.”
9. Med shot, US delegation
10. Med shot, GA President Joseph Deiss announcing adoption of the resolution
11. Med shot, Libyan delegation
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Susan Rice, Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations:
“The General Assembly has come together to speak with one voice to Libya’s unrepentant rulers. This unprecedented action sends another clear warning to Mr. Qadhafi and those who still stand by him: They must stop the killing. When the only way a leader can cling to power is by grossly and systematically violation his own people’s human rights, he has lost any legitimacy to rule. He must go and he must go now.”
13. Wide shot, General Assembly
The General Assembly today (1 March) suspended Libyan membership of the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council (HRC) because of President Muammar Al-Qadhafi’s violent repression of peaceful protesters demanding his ouster.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addressed the Assembly before the result of the vote was announced and welcomed the recommendation of the HRC to suspend Libya’s membership so long as the violence continues.
Ban said that “the world has spoken with one voice” demanding “an immediate end to the violence against civilians and full respect for their fundamental human rights.”
The Secretary-General said that it is the international community’s “collective duty to stand for human rights, social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom.”
He also warned against “outside interference” and said that “it is imperative that the international community recognize that change must come from within.”
After the vote, United States (US) Ambassador Susan Rice said that the General Assembly had “come together to speak with one voice to Libya’s unrepentant rulers.”
She added that “when the only way a leader can cling to power is by grossly and systematically violation his own people’s human rights, he has lost any legitimacy to rule” and said that “he must go and he must go now.”
Today’s vote by the 192-member Assembly follows a request from the Geneva-based 47-member HRC itself last Friday (25 Feb) that it suspends Libya.
The vote was the latest measure taken by the UN. Over the weekend, the Security Council imposed sanctions on Qadhafi’s regime and requested that the International Criminal Court investigate it for possible crimes against humanity.
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