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STORY: UN / TERRORISM WRAP
TRT: 03:11
SOURCE: UNIFEED-UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ARABIC / ENGLISH / RUSSIAN / NATS
DATELINE: 14 APRIL 2016, NEW YORK CITY / RECENT
RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations Headquarters
14 APRIL 2016, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council meeting
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Recent attacks around the world have destroyed lives, heightened fear and defied all norms of international law and our common humanity. Terrorism and violent extremism are global threats, transcending cultures and geographical boundaries. They should not be associated with any one religion, nationality or ethnic group.”
4. Med shot, Representatives of Egypt and France
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“We must also have the courage to address certain difficult situations, such as the support that violent extremists and terrorists may receive -- directly, indirectly and perhaps even unintentionally -- from Governments.”
6. Med shot, Representatives of Ukraine and the United Kingdom
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abdallah Al-Mouallimi, Permanent Representative, Saudi Arabia:
“The Islamic world was the first to carry the burden of terrorism, be it official organized terrorism based on occupation and the extortion of land and property, or that which is concealed under the garments of religion or sect.”
8. Med shot, Representative of China and The Secretary-General
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Samantha Power, Permanent Representative, United States:
“‘Freedom to think as you will and to speak as you think are means indispensable to the discovery and spread of political truth’ – end quote. It is ISIL and Al-Qaeda that are most afraid of the truth. Depriving people of opportunities to discuss, debate, and express themselves online is not going to increase our security. It will increase division between different countries, different people, and between citizens and their government.”
10. Med shot, Representatives of Japan and Malaysia
11. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Vitaly Churkin, Permanent Representative, Russia:
“The bulk of ISIL-exported oil products, artefacts, and other goods, from the territories this group controls, continue to be carried out through Turkey with its complacency or inaction. Through the border of this country with Iraq and in particular Syria, there are the main transit routes for foreign terrorist fighters as well as weapons, the majority of which fall into the hands of terrorists. In this regard we see relevance in the matter of closing, in the name of counter-terrorism, the Turkish-Syrian border.”
12. Wide shot, Press conference room
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Hans-Jacob Schindler, Coordinator of the Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team in support of the ISIL and Al-Qeada Sanctions Committee, United Nations:
“Truly ISIL’s core is becoming squeezed in Iraq and Syria, this means that income streams shift and the traditional division in oil, antiquities, (and) extortion may shift in its balance. However, also the squeeze means that ISIL now increasingly comes under pressure to move funds that it has created in excess in what it would need outside; outside, not only to finance new affiliates, groups, but also to finance cells.”
14. Med shot, Photographer
15. Zoom out, Press conference ending
United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said terrorism and violent extremism are global threats which transcend cultures and boundaries and should not be associated with any one religion, nationality or ethnic group.
Addressing the Security Council, Ban said approaches to preventing violent extremism and countering terrorism must respect international human rights and humanitarian law. He noted that “too often this basic understanding has been broken or ignored.”
Saudi ambassador Abdallah Al-Mouallimi said, “The Islamic world was the first to carry the burden of terrorism, be it official organized terrorism based on occupation and the extortion of land and property, or that which is concealed under the garments of religion or sect.” He said the failure to condemn Israel’s “terrorism” has in fact fuelled terrorism and caused it to spread. Al-Mouallimi also said that Iran has worked to create an environment in the region that fosters the spread of extremism, violence, and “sectarian terrorism.”
US Ambassador Samantha Power said terrorist groups have become dangerously adept at using the internet and communications technologies to propagate their hateful messages. She stressed, however, that this should not drive countries to impose wide-ranging limits on the internet. Quoting US Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson, Power said “Freedom to think as you will and to speak as you think are means indispensable to the discovery and spread of political truth.” She said, “It is ISIL and Al-Qaeda that are most afraid of the truth. Depriving people of opportunities to discuss, debate, and express themselves online is not going to increase our security. It will increase division between different countries, different people, and between citizens and their government.”
Several events at the UN also focused on the financing of terrorists and their operations. Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said “the bulk of ISIL-exported oil products, artefacts, and other goods, from the territories this group controls, continue to be carried out through Turkey with its complacency or inaction.” He said, “In this regard we see relevance in the matter of closing, in the name of counter-terrorism, the Turkish-Syrian border.”
Speaking to the press, the head of monitoring team which supports the sanctions committee for ISIL and Al-Qeada, Hans-Jacob Schindler said ISIL’s core is becoming squeezed in Iraq and Syria. He said the squeeze means that ISIL is now increasingly coming under pressure to “move funds that it has created in excess in what it would need outside; outside, not only to finance new affiliates, groups, but also to finance cells.”
