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STORY: UN / E1
TRT: 1:15
SOURCE: UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/NATS
DATELINE: 14 JANUARY 2013, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations
2. Wide shot Eduardo del Buey at podium
3. Cutaway journalists taking notes
4 SOUNDBITE Deputy Spokesperson Eduardo del Buey (English)
“The Secretary-General is following with concern developments regarding the announced plans for Israeli settlement construction in the so-called E1 area, on which he expressed his grave disappointment in his statement of 2 December. He notes that Israeli settlements in the West Bank are illegal under international law. The Secretary-General repeats his call that any such settlement plans for E-1 must be rescinded.”
5. Cutaway to journalist
6. SOUNDBITE Deputy Spokesperson Eduardo del Buey (English)
“He notes that the recent Palestinian demonstrations in the E1 area, as well as the Israeli evacuation of the protesters, were largely non-violent. The Secretary-General stresses the importance for protests to continue to remain peaceful and for the right to peaceful protest to be fully respected. In this particularly difficult period for the region, all concerned should make serious efforts towards creating the conditions for a resumption of meaningful peace negotiations and to protect the future of the peace process, which is in danger.”
7. Cutaway to journalist
8. Deputy Spokesperson Eduardo del Buey leaves the podium
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today (14 January) said Israel’s plans to building 3,000 housing units east of Jerusalem are illegal under international law, and the project should be dropped.
Ban’s Deputy Spokesperson Eduardo del Buey told the regular press briefing at UN headquarters that the Secretary-General, “notes that Israeli settlements in the West Bank are illegal under international law.”
Del Buey said, “The Secretary-General is following with concern developments regarding the announced plans for Israeli settlement construction in the so-called E1 area, on which he expressed his grave disappointment in his statement of 2 December. He notes that Israeli settlements in the West Bank are illegal under international law. The Secretary-General repeats his call that any such settlement plans for E-1 must be rescinded.”
Referring to demonstrations in the area just east of Jerusalem over the weekend and the Israeli efforts to remove a tent city, del Buey said the Secretary-General, “notes that the recent Palestinian demonstrations in the E1 area, as well as the Israeli evacuation of the protesters, were largely non-violent. The Secretary-General stresses the importance for protests to continue to remain peaceful and for the right to peaceful protest to be fully respected.”
”In this particularly difficult period for the region, all concerned should make serious efforts towards creating the conditions for a resumption of meaningful peace negotiations and to protect the future of the peace process, which is in danger,” he said.
On 2 December, a spokesman said the project, “risks completely cutting off East Jerusalem from the rest of the West Bank.”
Announced by Israeli authorities last month, construction in E1 – a West Bank territory that Israel captured in 1967 – would connect a large Jewish settlement to Jerusalem, according to media reports. However, according to media reports, the move would also reportedly divide the West Bank in two, rendering a viable, contiguous and sovereign Palestinian State impossible to achieve in accordance with the two-State solution contained in the internationally approved plan that seeks to resolve the issue on the basis of two States, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and within secure borders.
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