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STORY: UN / VITALY CHURKIN
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SOURCE: UNTV
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 09 JULY 2013, NEW YORK
FILE – UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS, NEW YORK
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
09 JULY 2013, NEW YORK
2. Wide shot, Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin approaches’ podium
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3. Cutaway, journalist taking notes
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ambassador Vitaly Churkin, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations:
“I have such transmitted to the Secretary-General the results of the analysis of on-sight samples taken by Russian experts in Khan Al-Asal. I would like to underscore that unlike other reports provided to the Secretary-General our samples were taken at the projectile impact point by Russian experts in person they were not transmitted to us though 3rd parties.”
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5. Cutaway, journalist taking notes
09 JULY 2013, NEW YORK
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Ambassador Vitaly Churkin, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations:
“In conclusion I would like to stress that we welcome we the decision by the Syrian Government to invite the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Ms. Kane and the Head of the United Nations investigation team Professor Sellstrom to visit Syria. We believe that this initiative creates a new positive momentum in order to launch an investigation into the use of chemical weapons in Syria all modalities of such investigation should be defined in direct discussions between the Syrian government and the United Nations Secretariat.”
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7. Cutaway, journalist taking notes
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8. SOUNDBITE (English) Ambassador Vitaly Churkin, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations:
“What I gave today to the Secretary General is not just a description of the results, but actual, then actual document. It’s 80 pages of photographs, formulas and graphs which substantiate what I just briefly told you and we invite the United Nations experts to study those results.”
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9. Cutaway, journalist taking notes
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10. SOUNDBITE (English) Ambassador Vitaly Churkin, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations:
“Now we have something which looks like a promising process, unfortunately the process was derailed when the Syrian Government invited this investigation of the Khan Al-Asal in the first place because what they were confronted with –this is my understanding of the predicament- was essentially the replica of Iraq investigation and they didn’t want to repeat the same experience, the situation was completely different, so now I hope that on both sides there is going to be reasonable kind of an attitude and effort to clarify this matter.”
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11. Cutaway, journalist taking notes
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12. Wide shot, Ambassador Vitaly Churkin leaves microphone behind
Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin today (9 July) handed over to the United Nations (UN) Secretary-General a report from Russian experts verifying the alleged use of chemical weapons by the Syrian opposition last March 19 in the vicinity of the Aleppo Province in Syria.
Briefing journalists at the UN Churkin said that “unlike other reports provided to the Secretary-General our samples were taken at the projectile impact point by Russian experts in person they were not transmitted to us though 3rd parties”.
While welcoming the Syrian Government’s decision to invite the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Angela Kane, and the Head of the UN investigation team Professor Åke Sellström to visit Syria, Churkin said that “this initiative creates a new positive momentum in order to launch an investigation into the use of chemical weapons in Syria all modalities of such investigation should be defined in direct discussions between the Syrian government and the United Nations Secretariat.”
Churkin stressed that what he handed to the UN Secretary-General was the actual document, containing “80 pages of photographs, formulas and graphs.”
He also expressed his hope that “on both sides there is going to be reasonable kind of an attitude and effort to clarify this matter.”
In a statement issued yesterday by Ban Ki-moon’s spokesperson he welcomed “the offer of the Government of Syria to continue discussions on the United Nations Mission to Investigate Allegations of the Use of Chemical Weapons in the Syrian Arab Republic,” According to the statement, the head of the Mission, Åke Sellström, would travel to New York this week to update the Secretary-General on the status of his activities.
Ban also hoped that Syria would grant access to the Mission to conduct its on-site investigation, the statement added, noting that cooperation from Damascus “will be essential for the Mission to establish facts in a credible manner regarding any use of chemical weapons in Syria.”
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