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STORY: UN / PALESTINE MANSOUR
TRT: 2.03
SOURCE: UNTV
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LANGAUGE: ENGLISH /NATS
DATELINE: 2 APRIL 2014, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
2 APRIL 2014, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Palestinian Ambassador Riyad Mansour at the podium
3. Wide shot, reporters
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Riyad Mansour, Permanent Observer of Palestine to the United Nations:
“We are exercising our legal right as a state to join these instruments. We are part of humanity and this would allow us to shoulder our responsibility in carrying what is required from us under the provisions of these instruments. We are proud of that and we are delighted to do that and we consider the action by our President as a step to consolidate and strengthen the pillars of the State of Palestine in the international system.”
5. Med shot, reporters
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Riyad Mansour, Permanent Observer of Palestine to the United Nations:
“We do not believe that what we’ve done is a violation of anything. As I said, we were ready and willing to keep this exercise on hold as long as Israel is abiding by the agreement of releasing all the political prisoners, and the last batch, the fourth batch was supposed to be released a few days ago, the end of March. It was the Israeli side that decided to violate this agreement or understanding by not honouring their part of this agreement.”
7. Pan right, reporters
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Riyad Mansour, Permanent Observer of Palestine to the United Nations:
“We are doing what we are doing legally, politically and diplomatically to defend ourselves from this aggression imposed on us by Israel the occupying power. We are struggling for ending this occupation and having the independence and freedom of our nation.”
9. Close up, photographer
10. Zoom out, end of press conference
Palestinian Ambassador Riyad Mansour said today (2 April) that the State of Palestine was exercising its “legal right as a state” by joining more than a dozen international conventions and instruments.
Mansour said “we are part of humanity and this would allow us to shoulder our responsibility in carrying what is required from us under the provisions of these instruments.”
He added that the decision by President Mahmoud Abbas constituted “a step to consolidate and strengthen the pillars of the State of Palestine in the international system.”
The Ambassador stressed that his Government was “ready and willing to keep this exercise on hold as long as Israel is abiding by the agreement of releasing all the political prisoners.”
He said “it was the Israeli side that decided to violate this agreement or understanding by not honouring their part of this agreement.”
Mansour said “we are doing what we are doing legally, politically and diplomatically to defend ourselves from this aggression imposed on us by Israel the occupying power.”
Among the agreements signed on today are officials the Geneva Conventions which contain the key international rules of war and occupation.
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