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STORY: UN / BAN HOLOCAUST
TRT: 02:19
SOURCE: UNIFEED-UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 27 JANUARY 2016, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior, United Nations headquarters
2. Med shot, survivors of Holocaust standing up while audience claps
3. Pan left, moment of silence
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General, United Nations:
“I was profoundly disappointed to learn of another so-called “Holocaust cartoon contest” being planned this year in Iran. At this time of sectarian tensions, mutual respect must be foremost in our minds. Spreading hatred and toying with historical facts only leads down the dead-end of discord and danger.”
5. Cutaway, audience
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General, United Nations:
“With a rising tide of anti-Semitism, anti-Muslim bigotry and other forms of discrimination, we must do even more to defend these rights for people everywhere. People worldwide – including millions fleeing war, persecution and deprivation – are the targets of discrimination and attacks. Violent extremism, sectarian tensions and hate-filled ideologies are on the march. Civilians are in the crosshairs. International humanitarian law is being flouted on a global scale. The international community is failing to hold perpetrators to account.”
7. Cutaway, audience
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General, United Nations:
“I call on those who have influence over the Syrian parties to press for sustained and unimpeded humanitarian access throughout Syria. And I again remind all parties that starvation as a weapon of war and the deliberate targeting of civilians is a war crime. All those responsible must be held accountable. “
9. Med shot, audience clapping
“With a rising tide of anti-Semitism, anti-Muslim bigotry and other forms of discrimination, we must do even more to defend these rights for people everywhere.”
Addressing delegates Wednesday (27 Jan) at a gathering marking the International Day of the Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, Secretary-General Ban-Ki moon urged everyone to denounce political and religious ideologies that set people against people.
He said he was “profoundly disappointed” to learn about a “Holocaust cartoon contest” set to take place in Iran this year and called for mutual respect amidst so much sectarian tensions. He added that” spreading hatred and toying with historical facts only leads down the dead-end of discord and danger.”
Ban spoke of how millions of people around the world fleeing war, persecution and deprivation are now the targets of discrimination and attacks. That international humanitarian law “is being flouted on a global scale” and that the international community “is failing to hold perpetrators to account.”
He mentioned that actions of Da’esh could amount to grave crimes against minority groups such as the Yazidis and that the conflict in Syria has generated “the worst humanitarian crisis of our time.”
The Secretary-General called on “those who have influence” over the Syrian parties to implement sustained and unimpeded humanitarian access throughout the country and reiterated that “starvation as a weapon of war and the deliberate targeting of civilians is a war crime. All those responsible must be held accountable. “
