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STORY: UN /UK SYRIA
TRT: 1.37
SOURCE: UNIFEED-UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /NATS
DATELINE: 24 SEPTEMBER 2014, NEW YORK CITY
1. Pan right, from East River to UN headquarters
2. Wide shot, press room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Phillip Hammond, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, United Kingdom:
“Assad cannot be a credible partner for us. He is unable to unite Syrians, unable to defeat ISIL and unable to win broad international backing. He is responsible for ISIL’s rise. Assad is cause, not a cure for ISIL.”
4. Wide shot, Hammond and Al-Bahra shaking hands
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Hadi Al-Bahra, President, Syrian National Coalition:
“We have been assured, about continuous support of the Friends of Syria, their commitment to our vision to achievement of democracy in Syria, their assurances that Assad cannot be a partner in fighting terrorism nor he cannot have any legitimacy in the future.”
6. Wide shot, press room
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Hadi Al-Bahra, President, Syrian National Coalition:
“They are as Syrian as anyone of us; they do not look for separate government or separate piece of land to be out of Syria. They look for the unity of Syria; look for unity of people of Syria. They like in their own opinion a federal system where they can elect their own government and have their own municipalities and so on.”
8. Med shot, podium
“Assad is a cause, not a cure for ISIL” - the UK Foreign Secretary Phillip Hammond said to the press after a meeting with representatives of Syrian National Coalition on the sidelines of the Security Council session dedicated to terrorism.
Hammond explained that Assad “cannot be a credible partner” since he is unable to unite Syrians, defeat ISIL, or to win broad international support.”
Speaking after Hammond, the President of the Syrian National Coalition that fights both Assad’s regime and ISIL, Hadi Al-Bahra said that his delegation has received assurances of further support of the “Friends of Syria”.
Answering a question about the position of Syrian Kurds in Coalition, Al-Bahra noted that the vice=president of the coalition is Kurd himself.
He said that Syrian Kurds do not want separation, but instead support federal Syria, and would like to see “a federal system where they can elect their own government and have their own municipalities and so on.”
Earlier today, the Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution condemning violent extremism and calling on states to prevent the movement of terrorists or terrorist groups by effective border controls and controls on issuance of identity papers and travel documents.
