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STORY: UN / SYRIA ALEPPO 2
TRT: 02:46
SOURCE: UNIFEED-UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ARABIC / RUSSIAN / NATS
DATELINE: 04 MAY 2016
FILE – NEW YORK CITY
1. Aerial shot, UNHQ
04 MAY 2016, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mounzer Mounzer, Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Syria:
“Enough hypocrisy, politicisation, and playing with Syrian blood; how can this opposition be moderate as it kills innocent children in hospitals, and indiscriminately bombards civilians on a daily basis?”
4. Med shot, representatives
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mounzer Mounzer, Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Syria:
“All of this escalation by the armed terrorist groups, led by Al-Nusra front and its allies, was not a coincidence. Rather, it came as a result of the failure of these terrorist groups, with orders from well-known countries, to launch a wide scale offensive from several fronts on the city of Aleppo. This offensive was timed with the withdrawal of the so-called Riyadh delegation from the latest round of the Geneva talks.”
6. Med shot, representatives
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mounzer Mounzer, Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Syria:
“What the Syrian government is doing in the city of Aleppo, is nothing more that preforming its duties to protect its citizens from terrorism and a response to the escalation, killings, and destruction carried out by the terrorist groups in that city.”
8. Med shot, representatives
9. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Vilaty Churkin, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Russia:
“We should not put into question the radical improvement of the situation with the establishment of the cessation of hostilities, which has spurred on those who are interested in keeping the conflict going. We also think it’s counterproductive to express public criticism on unverified incidents simply to add new charges against the Syrian government. This has occurred more than once.”
10. Med shot, representatives
11. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Vilaty Churkin, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Russia:
“We have been promised that the armed units of the so-called moderate opposition will break off all links with Al-Nusra, withdraw from territories that it occupies, and clearly state their readiness to take part in the peace process. This has not occurred so far, which puts into question the existence of the political will among those who have an influence on the various players. We are beginning to get the impression that the external sponsors cannot or do not want to have an influence on the opposition groups and force them to distance themselves from the terrorists.”
12. Zoom out, Security Council
Speaking today at an emergency Security Council meeting on Aleppo, Syrian Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN) Mounzer Mounzer called on "representatives of countries supporting or covering terrorism" in his country to stop the "hypocrisy, politicisation, and playing with Syrian blood."
The Syrian representative asked how an opposition group which “kills innocent children in hospitals, and indiscriminately bombards civilians on a daily basis” could be labelled as moderate. He said the escalation in Aleppo was not a coincidence rather it was a result of the failure of “terrorist groups” to launch a wide scale offensive on the city. Mounzer said the Syria government was simply carrying out its duty to “to protect its citizens from terrorism.”
Russian ambassador Vitaly Churkin said despite the escalation in Aleppo, “We should not put into question the radical improvement of the situation with the establishment of the cessation of hostilities, which has spurred on those who are interested in keeping the conflict going.”
He said the fact that “the so-called moderate opposition” has not broken its links with the Al-Nusra Front, which is affiliated with Al-Qaeda, gives the impression that “the external sponsors cannot or do not want to have an influence on the opposition groups” to force them to distance themselves from terrorists.
