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GA/ ABBAS
STORY: GA/ ABBAS
TRT: 2.28
SOURCE: UNTV
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LANGUAGE: ARABIC / NATS
DATELINE: 26 SEPTEMBER 2013, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
26 SEPTEMBER 2013, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, President Mahmoud Abbas of Palestine walks up to the podium
3. Wide shot, audience
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mahmoud Abbas, President of the State of Palestine:
"As we engage in this new round of negotiations we must remind all and recall ourselves that we do not start in a vacuum or point zero, nor do we lack a compass as to lose sight of the finish line and the destination.”
5. Med shot, Palestinian delegation
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mahmoud Abbas, President of the State of Palestine:
"Our objective is to achieve a permanent and comprehensive agreement and the peace treaty between the states of Palestine and Israel that resolves all outstanding issues and answers all questions, and allows us to officially declare an end of conflict and end all claims.”
7. Med shot, delegates
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mahmoud Abbas, President of the State of Palestine:
"Time is running out. The window of peace is narrowing. Opportunities are diminishing. The current round of negotiations is to be a last chance to realize a just peace. Merely thinking of the catastrophic and terrifying consequences of failure must compel the international community to intensify its efforts to grab upon this chance. Mr. President, ladies and gentlemen, the hour of freedom for the Palestinian people has rung. The hour of the independence of Palestine has rung. The hour of peace for two people, the Palestinian and Israeli has rung. Thank you Mr. President.”
9. Various shots, audience applause
Warning that time is running out, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas today (26 September) called on the United Nations to end Israeli settlement building on Palestinian land and thus giving a last chance for renewed peace talks to resolve the Middle East conflict within the allotted nine-month timeframe.
Abbas, President of the State of Palestine told the General Assembly on the third day of its annual General Debate, said that “as we engage in this new round of negotiations we must remind all and recall ourselves that we do not start in a vacuum or point zero, nor do we lack a compass as to lose sight of the finish line and the destination.”
The Palestinian President, addressing the GA for the first time as President of the State of Palestine following its acceptance last November as a non-member observer State to the UN, said his country’s objective was “to achieve a permanent and comprehensive agreement and the peace treaty between the states of Palestine and Israel that resolves all outstanding issues and answers all questions, and allows us to officially declare an end of conflict and end all claims.”
Abbas painted a bleak picture of the past 20 years during which the initial hopes of peace between Palestine and Israel raised by the so-called Oslo accords and their roadmap to a two-State solution have been shattered by the continuation of intense Israeli settlement construction which he said aims to change the facts on the ground in the occupied Palestinian territory,
He said "time is running out. The window of peace is narrowing. Opportunities are diminishing. The current round of negotiations is to be a last chance to realize a just peace. Merely thinking of the catastrophic and terrifying consequences of failure must compel the international community to intensify its efforts to grab upon this chance.”
He closed his intervention by saying “the hour of freedom for the Palestinian people has rung. The hour of the independence of Palestine has rung. The hour of peace for two people, the Palestinian and Israeli has rung.”
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