GENEVA / BRAHIMI ARRIVALS

Officials from the United Nations, Russia and the United States are holding talks in Geneva to try to pave the way for Geneva II, an international conference focused on ending the 31 month conflict in Syria. CH UNTV

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:28
• Production Date: 5 November 2013
• Asset Language: Original
• Subject Topical: POLITICAL CONDITIONS; POLITICAL MOVEMENTS; INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; PEACE AND SECURITY
• Geographic Subject: UNITED STATES; SYRIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION
• MAMS Id: U131105d

Description

STORY: GENEVA / BRAHIMI ARRIVALS
TRT: 1.28
SOURCE: UNTV CH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 5 NOVEMBER 2013. GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

Shotlist

FILE – RECENT, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

1. Wide shot, Palais des Nations

5 NOVEMBER 2013. GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

2. Pan right, arrival of Wendy R. Sherman, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, United States of America
3. Med shot, Sherman climbing stairs
4. Med shot, security guard.
5. Med shot, Sherman in meeting room
6. Close up, Sherman
7. Close up, Joint Special Representative of the United Nations and League of Arab States for Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi
8. Med shot, Guennadi Gatilov and Mikhail Bogdanov, Deputy Ministers for Foreign Affairs, Russian Federation
9. Med shot, UN-Arab League Joint Special Representative Lakhdar Brahimi, UN Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman
10. Med shot, Gatilov and Bogdanov
11. Pan left, meeting room

Storyline

Officials from the United Nations, Russia and the United States are holding talks in Geneva today (5 Nov), to try to pave the way for Geneva II, an international conference focused on ending the 31 month conflict in Syria.

Senior officials attending the meeting include UN-Arab League Joint Special Representative Lakhdar Brahimi, UN Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman, US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman, and Russian Deputy Foreign Ministers Mikhail Bogdanov and Gennady Gatilov.

The meeting is set to be broadened later to include representatives of the three other permanent members of the UN Security Council, China, France and Britain, and then later in the day by representatives of Syria's neighbours, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey, as well as of the UN and the Arab League.

The Syrian government and opposition groups disagree over how the formal negotiations for Geneva II should be structured: the opposition demands that President Bashar al-Assad should resign, while Damascus says there should be no pre-conditions.