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STORY: UN / SECURITY COUNCIL UKRAINE
TRT: 2.43
SOURCE: UNTV
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / RUSSIAN / NATS
DATELINE: 3, 4 MARCH 2014, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
4 MARCH 2014, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, journalists
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Sylvie Lucas, Permanent Representative of Luxembourg to the United Nations:
“You listened to the exchanges in public. We will start the work tomorrow on chemical weapons in Syria. We will see. For the moment I can only say in ongoing negotiations on other issues or resolutions for the moment we have not seen that there has been additional problems because of that. But again, I would ask you perhaps you could ask those who you are implying for what they say on this respect. I cannot not foresee what will happen the rest of the month, I mean, as I said tomorrow we will have our first meeting on a normal agenda item and we will see how that goes.”
3 MARCH 2014, NEW YORK CITY
4. Wide shot, Security Council
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Samantha Power, Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations:
“Listening to the representative of Russia, one would think that Moscow has just become the rapid response arm of the Office of High Commissioner of Human Rights. So many of the assertions made this afternoon by the Russian Federation are without basis in reality.”
6. Med shot, Ukrainian Ambassador
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Vitaly Churkin, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations:
“I was surprised to hear verbally something from my colleague Ambassador Power that all of these concerns are fabricated, made up. That really surprised me because I have the impression Ambassador Power is using information from US TV. In fact, if all the information she gets is from US TV, then of course everything in the Ukraine is beautiful, a wave of democracy.”
8. Med shot, Ambassador Power
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Vitaly Churkin, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations:
“Do you really think that Russia could allow a repeat of what happened in Central and Eastern Ukraine where millions of Russians live? A number of years ago the US, for example, took over Grenada, and President Reagan said, ‘We are defending American citizens who reside there.’ A thousand people, and there was no threat from Grenada to those people.”
10. Med shot, Ambassador Power
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Samantha Power, Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations:
“When military intervention in the face of a crisis like this is the first resort, it is hard to avoid concluding that Russia does not want peace and does not want a diplomatic solution. Why choose military action when the consequences could be devastating? Only someone who fears the truth would be fearful of monitors who are deployed for the specific purpose of identifying and reporting the truth.”
12. Wide shot, Council
After the heated exchanges between the representatives of the Russian Federation and the United States at the Security Council over the situation in the Ukraine on Monday, Ambassador Sylvie Lucas of Luxembourg, Council President for the month of March, today (4 March) said that “ongoing negotiations on other issues or resolutions for the moment we have not seen that there has been additional problems because of that.”
Lucas noted that the Council will start working tomorrow on the Syria chemical weapons issue, in which both the United States and Russia play a leading role.
She said she could nor foresee “what will happen the rest of the month” but that “tomorrow we will have our first meeting on a normal agenda item and we will see how that goes.”
In a back-and-forth exchange on the Council floor on Monday (3 Mar), US Ambassador Samantha Power said that “listening to the representative of Russia, one would think that Moscow has just become the rapid response arm of the Office of High Commissioner of Human Rights” and added that “so many of the assertions made this afternoon by the Russian Federation are without basis in reality.”
Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said he was “surprised” to hear Ambassador Power say that “all of these concerns are fabricated, made up.”
Churkin said he had “the impression Ambassador Power is using information from US TV. In fact, if all the information she gets is from US TV, then of course everything in the Ukraine is beautiful, a wave of democracy.”
The Russian Ambassador also compared the current situation with the 1983 US invasion of Grenada in which he quoted US President Reagan as saying that they were “defending American citizens who reside there.”
Taking again the floor, Power said that “when military intervention in the face of a crisis like this is the first resort, it is hard to avoid concluding that Russia does not want peace and does not want a diplomatic solution.”
She asked “why choose military action when the consequences could be devastating?” and added that “only someone who fears the truth would be fearful of monitors who are deployed for the specific purpose of identifying and reporting the truth.”
In the latest developments, Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson continued his visit in the Ukraine. He met with the acting President, Prime Minister and acting Foreign Minister.
In his meetings, the Deputy Secretary-General stressed the need for calm and international unity in the pursuit of peace. He also reiterated the Secretary-General's call that Ukraine's territorial integrity should be respected and preserved. The Deputy Secretary-General also held meetings with diplomatic representatives in Kyiv.
As part of the mission, the Deputy Secretary-General has asked Robert Serry to travel to Crimea in order to take stock of and evaluate the situation there. Serry is now departing Kyiv and should arrive shortly in Crimea.
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