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STORY: UN / UKRAINE SAVCHENKO REAX
TRT: 01:52
SOURCE: UNIFEED - UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 22 MARCH 2016, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
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1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
22 MARCH 2016, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Volodymyr Yelchenko at the stakeout position
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3. Close up, reporter’s notebook
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Volodymyr Yelchenko, Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations:
“We expressed strong and resolute protest with regards to so-called veredict of the so-called Russian court, sentencing Miss Nadiya Savchenko, citizen of Ukraine, member of Ukrainian Parliament, and member of Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe to 22 years in prison. The veredict is an undisputable proof that it is useless to seek justice in moder Russia.”
5. Wide shot, Yelchenko
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Volodymyr Yelchenko, Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations:
“We are planning in the nearest hours to have the chain of meetings with the leadership of the UN Secretariat, with other members of the Security Council, with the President of the General Assembly, to bring up this issue to their attention, and to demand in strongest terms any possible actions on their side which would assist to release Nadiya Savchenko.”
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7. Close up, reporter’s notebook
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8. SOUNDBITE (English) Volodymyr Yelchenko, Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations:
“I would not call it the prisoner’s exchange, but rather the hostage exchange. Because we do not consider Savchenko as a prisoner, because she was illegally sentenced, but in any case there was statement by the President of Ukraine to this, and well, this is one of the opportunities. Well, of course one has to go through the sort of legal jungles in order to find out the proper way, but I believe that this is one of the proposals which is on the table.”
9. Pan right, Yelchenko walks away
Ukrainian Ambassador Volodymyr Yelchenko protested the verdict that found Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko guilty of charges relating to the deaths of two Russian journalists.
Yelchenko said the verdict of 22 years in jail was “undisputable proof that it is useless to seek justice in modern Russia.”
Savchenko was accused of directing artillery fire which killed the journalists in 2014.
Yelchenko said he would hold a “chain of meetings” with UN officials and Security Council members in order “to bring up this issue to their attention, and to demand in strongest terms any possible actions on their side which would assist to release Nadiya Savchenko.”
Responding to a journalist’s question, the Ukrainian Ambassador said “I would not call it the prisoner’s exchange, but rather the hostage exchange. Because we do not consider Savchenko as a prisoner, because she was illegally sentenced, but in any case there was statement by the President of Ukraine to this, and well, this is one of the opportunities. Well, of course one has to go through the sort of legal jungles in order to find out the proper way, but I believe that this is one of the proposals which is on the table.”
