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STORY: UN / IRAQ
TRT: 2:20
SOURCE: UNIFEED-UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / ARABIC / NATS
DATELINE: 23 JULY 2014, NEW YORK CITY / RECENT
RECENT – NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations Headquarters
23 JULY 2014, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. Med shot, delegates
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Nikolay Mladenov, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI):
“From a splinter group of Al-Qaida, ISIL today has grown to be a complex threat to peace and security in Iraq, the entire region and beyond.”
5. Med shot, delegates
6.SOUNDBITE (English) Nikolay Mladenov, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI):
“The Security Council should demand, in no uncertain terms, that ISIL cease all hostilities and atrocities and call upon Member States to cooperate in efforts to enforce existing sanctions and hold accountable the perpetrators, organizers and sponsors of these horrific terrorist acts, war crimes and crimes against humanity.”
7.Med shot, Iraqi representative
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Nikolay Mladenov, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI):
“I would like to call upon all actors to the conflict to ensure that human rights standards and international humanitarian law are respected and upheld throughout all phases of the armed conflict, and to ensure the protection of innocent civilians, social infrastructure, cultural and historic heritage.”
9. Wide shot, delegates
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Nikolay Mladenov, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI):
“All parties must establish humanitarian corridors, especially for besieged communities, and respect the right of impartial organizations to provide humanitarian assistance for those in need.”
11. Med shot, delegates
12. SOUNDBITE (Arabic), Mohamed Ali Hakim, Permanent Representative of Iraq to the United Nations:
“ISIS has established the Caliphate’s State on the territories it controls and it changed its name into the Islamic State. In the past few weeks, in an organized and systematic manner, it targeted the religious components and it destroyed the holly sites for Muslims and Christians alike and propagated the so called sex Jihad. The terrorist ISIS organization issued a decree to force Christians either to pay a heavy penalty to convert to Islam or to be murdered or to leave the city of Mosul.”
13. Wide shot, Security Council
The head of the United Nations Mission (UNAMI) in Iraq Nikolay Mladenov today (23 July) warned members of the Security Council that the Islamic State has grown to be a complex threat to peace and security in Iraq, the entire region and beyond.
Presenting the Secretary-General’s latest report on Iraq via teleconference from Baghdad, Mladenov urged the Council to demand that the Islamic State cease all hostilities and atrocities.
He called on Member States to cooperate in enforcing existing sanctions and hold accountable the perpetrators, organizers and sponsors of the horrific terrorist acts, war crimes and crimes against humanity in Iraq.
Speaking about treatment of minorities in the Ninewa Province, he added that tens of thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes, while many others have been executed or kidnapped. He added the UN has received reports that women and children are being targeted in the conflict areas.
He said “I would like to call upon all actors to the conflict to ensure that human rights standards and international humanitarian law are respected and upheld throughout all phases of the armed conflict, and to ensure the protection of innocent civilians, social infrastructure, cultural and historic heritage.”
Finaly, Mladenov said all parties to the conflict must ensure that international human rights and humanitarian law are respected. He called for the establishment of humanitarian corridors and respect for impartial organizations that are providing assistance.
Also speaking to the members of the Security Council, the Permanent Representative of Iraq Mohamed Ali Hakim, said “ISIS has established the Caliphate’s State on the territories it controls and it changed its name into the Islamic State.”
He added “in the past few weeks, in an organized and systematic manner, it targeted the religious components and it destroyed the holly sites for Muslims and Christians alike and propagated the so called sex Jihad.”
The Iraqi diplomat underlined “the terrorist ISIS organization issued a decree to force Christians either to pay a heavy penalty to convert to Islam or to be murdered or to leave the city of Mosul.”
