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STORY: UN / CYPRUS
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SOURCE: UNTV / CH UNTV
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/ NATS
DATELINE: 1 NOVEMBER 2011, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1.Wide shot, exterior United Nations Headquarters
1 NOVEMBER 2011, NEW YORK CITY
2.Wide shot, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. President of the Republic of Cyprus Dimitris Christofias and Turkish Cypriot Leader Derviş Eroğlu walk to the stakeout position
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
3.Close up, reporter’s notepads
1 NOVEMBER 2011, NEW YORK CITY
4.SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“The sides have made some encouraging progress during these two days on some of the remaining core issues. As my Special Adviser noted, discussions have been positive, productive and vigorous. This has given me confidence that a comprehensive settlement can be achieved. Both leaders have assured me that they believe that they can finalize a deal.”
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
5.Close up, reporter’s notepad
1 NOVEMBER 2011, NEW YORK CITY
6.SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“I have invited the two leaders to meet with me again in a similar format in January next year. By then, I expect the internal aspects of the Cyprus problem to have been resolved so that we can move to the multilateral conference shortly thereafter.”
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
7.Close up, reporter’s laptop
1 NOVEMBER 2011, NEW YORK CITY
8.Med shot, Ban, Christofias and Eroğlu shake hands
RECENT - 30 OCTOBER 2011, LONG ISLAND NEW YORK
9.Wide shot, Special Adviser Alexander Downer walks to the podium
10.Zoom in, photographer
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Alexander Downer, Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on Cyprus:
“We won’t be arbitrators or mediators in this process but we are happy to be as helpful as we possibly can be. So we haven’t been submitting bridging proposals, what we’ve been doing is talking to the two sides and extensively about the positions they have and discussing each other’s positions as well, you know, the other side’s positions with them so that there is a fuller understanding of the positions. But look, at the end of the day, the two sides where they make convergences have to make their own convergences and the UN can’t impose anything on them and we have no intention of doing so.”
12.Close up, camera
13.Zoom out, Downer walks away from the podium
FILE - 7 JULY 2011, PALAIS DES NATIONS, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
14.Various shots, Ban, Christofias and Eroğlu meeting in Geneva
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today (1 November) he is confident that a comprehensive settlement to the Cyprus issue can be reached, following progress made during two days of talks with the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot leaders in New York.
Ban told reporters at UN Headquarters, flanked by Greek Cypriot leader Dimitris Christofias and his Turkish Cypriot counterpart, Derviş Eroğlu that the sides have made “some encouraging progress” on the remaining core issues. He expressed confidence “that a comprehensive settlement can be achieved” as both leaders gave his assurances “that they believe that they can finalize a deal.”
Despite the progress made, Ban acknowledged that work still needs to be done and he has invited both leaders to meet with him again in a similar format in January next year. He said he expected “the internal aspects of the Cyprus problem to have been resolved so that we can move to the multilateral conference shortly thereafter.”
The leaders met with Ban at the Greentree estate in Long Island New York on 30 and 31 October, the fourth such meeting with the UN chief as part of the ongoing talks aimed at reunifying the Mediterranean island.
After the first day of meetings the Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on Cyprus Alexander Downer told reporters that the United Nations will not be “arbitrators or mediators” and have instead been extensively talking to the two sides “about the positions they have and discussing each other’s positions as well.”
He added that the two sides “have to make their own convergences and the UN can’t impose anything on them.”
At their previous meeting with the Secretary-General in July, it was agreed that the two sides would intensify the talks to reach convergences on outstanding core issues in the negotiations, which include governance and power-sharing, economy, European Union matters, property, territory and security.
The UN-backed talks began in 2008 with the aim of setting up a federal government with a single international personality in a bi-zonal, bi-communal country, with Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot constituent states of equal status.
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