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STORY: UN / UKRAINE
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SOURCE: UNTV
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 13, 14 APRIL 2014, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
14 APRIL 2014, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General Stéphane Dujarric walks up to the podium
3. Med shot, reporters
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General:
“Council members received an update from Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs Oscar Fernandez Taranco. He said that following two weeks of relative calm, starting on April 6 armed individuals and separatists groups began to seize government buildings and confiscate lethal weapons in the Donetsk Oblast of Ukraine, including the cities of Donetsk, Lugansk and Khartsy’k. He said that the Secretary-General has continued to speak out for the exercise of maximum restraint by all concerned as well as strict adherence to international law. He also continues to urge all others with influence on the situation to immediately and publicly call for restraint and a return to calm.”
5. Med shot, reporters
13 APRIL 2014, NEW YORK CITY
6. Various shots, Security Council
7. Zoom in, Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin walks up to the podium
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
8. Close up, reporter’s notepad
13 APRIL 2014, NEW YORK CITY
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Vitaly Churkin, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations:
“We called for this urgent meeting of the Security Council out of our concern that things are getting out of control in South Eastern Ukraine and that the criminal aura which has been announced by acting president Turchynov to use military force in South Eastern Ukraine may signify another major step towards the escalation of the situation which is in a graphic contrast to the prior assurances received from our western interlocutors.”
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
10. Close up, reporter’s mobile device
13 APRIL 2014, NEW YORK CITY
11. Zoom in, Ukrainian Ambassador Yuriy Sergeyev walks up to the podium
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
12. Close up, reporter’s notepad
13 APRIL 2014, NEW YORK CITY
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Yuriy Sergeyev, Permanent Representative of the Ukraine to the United Nations:
“What the Russian colleague said during the meeting and now doesn’t correspond to reality. The Ukrainian authorities are dealing within the constitution and the law of counterterrorism. We cannot stand away from this situation where thousands and thousands of people, citizens of a small, bigger village, are being threatened by a smaller group of the separatist, particularly those who are weaponed.”
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
14. Close up, reporter’s notepad
13 APRIL 2014, NEW YORK CITY
15. Zoom out, Sergeyev walks away from the podium
UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric today (14 Apr) said the Secretary-General has called for “the exercise of maximum restraint” by all concerned in the Ukraine and has urged “all others with influence on the situation to immediately and publicly call for restraint and a return to calm.”
Dujarric noted that Security Council members received an update on Sunday from Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs Oscar Fernandez Taranco who said that “following two weeks of relative calm, starting on April 6 armed individuals and separatists groups began to seize government buildings and confiscate lethal weapons in the Donetsk Oblast of Ukraine, including the cities of Donetsk, Lugansk and Khartsy’k”
The Council met late last night in the wake of the violent clashes that have swept eastern Ukraine over the past two days as pro- and anti-Government demonstrators have faced off in the region.
Outside the Council, Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said that the Russian Federation had “called for this urgent meeting of the Security Council out of our concern that things are getting out of control in South Eastern Ukraine and that the criminal aura which has been announced by acting president Turchynov to use military force in South Eastern Ukraine may signify another major step towards the escalation of the situation which is in a graphic contrast to the prior assurances received from our western interlocutors.”
For his part, Ukrainian Ambassador Yuriy Sergeyev said that “what the Russian colleague said during the meeting and now doesn’t correspond to reality.”
He said that “the Ukrainian authorities are dealing within the constitution and the law of counterterrorism.” He added that the Ukraine “cannot stand away from this situation where thousands and thousands of people, citizens of a small, bigger village, are being threatened by a smaller group of the separatist, particularly those who are weaponed.”
Months of political unrest in Ukraine led to the removal by Parliament of President Viktor Yanukovych in February, followed by increased tensions in the country's autonomous region of Crimea, where additional Russian military were subsequently deployed and a secession referendum was held in mid-March, in which the majority of the region's people voted to join Russia.
Ban and other senior UN officials have been leading the push for a diplomatic resolution to the crisis. After returning from the region in late March, he called for a solution based on the principles of the UN Charter and warned the concerned parties – and the wider international community – that “at this time of heightened tensions, even small sparks can ignite larger flames of unintended consequences.”
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