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GA / OBAMA
STORY: GA / OBAMA
TRT: 2:43
SOURCE: UNTV
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LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 21 SEPTEMBER 2011, UNITED NATIONS, NEW YORK / RECENT
RECENT - UNITED NATIONS, NEW YORK
1. Wide shot, exterior UN headquarters
21 SEPTEMBER 2011, UNITED NATIONS, NEW YORK
2. Med shot, US President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama arriving
3. Med shot, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arriving
4. Med shot, President Barack Obama approaching podium’
5. Cutaway, Michelle Obama
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Barack Obama, President, United States:
“The year has been a time of extraordinary transformation. More nations have stepped forward to maintain international peace and security and more individuals are claiming their universal rights to live in freedom and dignity.”
7. Cutaway, South Sudan delegation
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Barack Obama, President, United States:
“One year ago the people of Libya were ruled by the world’s longest serving dictator. But faced with bullets and bombs and a dictator who threatened to hunt them down like rats, they showed relentless bravery.”
9. Cutaway, Libyan delegation
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Barack Obama, President, United States:
“For the sake of Syria and the peace and security of the world we must speak with one voice. There is no excuse for inaction, now is the time for the United Nations Security Council to sanction the Syrian regime and to stand with the Syrian people.”
11. Cutaway, US delegation
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Barack Obama, President, United States:
“One year ago, I stood at this podium and I called for an independent Palestine. I believed then and I believe now that the Palestinian people deserve a state of their own. But what I also said is that a genuine peace can only be realized between Israelis and Palestinians themselves.”
13. Cutaway, Palestinian delegation
14. Cutaway, Israeli delegation
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Barack Obama, President, United States:
“It is because we so strongly believe in the aspirations of the Palestinian people that American has invested so much time and so much effort in the building of a Palestinian state and the negotiations that can deliver a Palestinian state. But understand this as well, America’s commitment to Israel’s security is unshakable.”
16. Cutaway, delegates applaud
17. Wide shot, President Obama meeting with Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
United States (US) President Barack Obama addressed the United Nations (UN) General Debate today (21 Sept) saying that although his administration believes in the aspirations of the Palestinian people for statehood, “America’s commitment to Israel’s security is unshakable.”
Addressing the 193-member body on the first day of the 66th General Debate, Obama stressed “a genuine peace can only be realized between Israelis and Palestinians themselves.”
Two days ago, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas met with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to inform him of his intention to submit an application for membership in UN this Friday. According to the UN Charter, admittance as a Member State of the UN requires first a positive recommendation by the Security Council followed by a decision based on two-third’s majority vote in the General Assembly.
President Obama also talked about recent political developments in Libya, Syria, Egypt and Tunisia. He commented on the Libyan people’s “relentless bravery” while “faced with bullets and bombs and a dictator who threatened to hunt them down like rats.”
He called on the Security Council “to sanction the Syrian regime and to stand with the Syrian people” adding that “there is no excuse for inaction.”
Last week, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay warned that reliable sources on the ground in Syria report that the number of those killed since the onset of the unrest in mid-March has now reached at least 2,600.
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