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STORY: UN / GENOCIDE
TRT: 1.37
SOURCE: UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / BOSNIAN / NATS
DATELINE: 10 APRIL 2013, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
10 APRIL 2013, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, dais
3. Med shot, journalists
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Prince Zeid Ra'ad Zeid Al Hussein, Permanent Representative of Jordan to the United Nations:
“In this morning’s general debate and for the rest of the discussions today and tomorrow, organized by the President of the General Assembly, the opinions of the victims of those wars which formed the focus of the Serbian President’s comments this morning, were not invited, something we find inexcusable.”
5. Med shot, journalists
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Christian Wenaweser, Permanent Representative of the Principality of Liechtenstein to the United Nations:
“The day that we could have celebrated today would have been a very good day had we looked at these issues in a comprehensive and in a balanced way. Unfortunately, as you know, that has not been possible.”
7. Med shot, journalists
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Prince Zeid Ra'ad Zeid Al Hussein, Permanent Representative of Jordan to the United Nations:
“When it became clear to us that there was a distinct agenda to this meeting, a flavour to it, it seemed to me that the President of the General Assembly was exploiting his position for a narrower aim and that was unacceptable to us.”
9. Med shot, journalists
10. SOUNDBITE (Bosnian) Munira Subasic, President of the Association "Mothers of Srebrenica”:
“I was powerless when I was struggling for my son. I was powerless when I was collecting my son’s bones and today I was powerless. I couldn’t even listen to the speech of the President of Serbia. I was removed.”
11. Med shot, journalists
12. Wide shot, end of press conference.
Following a General Assembly debate on the role of the international criminal justice system in reconciliation, Prince Zeid Ra'ad Zeid Al Hussein of Jordan told a press conference that it was “inexcusable” that the opinions of the victims of the Bosnian war, which was the focus of much of the debate, had not been invited.
Ambassador Christian Wenaweser of Liechtenstein, who co-hosted the press conference said today’s General Assembly debate “would have been a very good day had we looked at these issues in a comprehensive and in a balanced way.”
Unfortunately, he said, “that has not been possible.”
Munira Subasic, who is the President of the Association Mothers of Srebrenica, said: “I was powerless when I was struggling for my son. I was powerless when I was collecting my son’s bones and today I was powerless. I couldn’t even listen to the speech of the President of Serbia. I was removed.”
The General Assembly debate, the first ever on the subject, was organized by the General Assembly President Vuk Jeremic, who is from Serbia.
Jeremic stressed the vital role the international criminal justice system must play not just in looking back on past atrocities but in bringing former foes together to build a better and more inclusive tomorrow.
Over the past two decades various international criminal courts have been set up, either under UN sponsorship or in cooperation with the world body, to judge war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in countries as diverse as the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, and Cambodia.
These include the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), the Special Court for Sierra Leone, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, and the International Criminal Court (ICC), which is not country-specific.
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