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STORY: UN / CHILDREN IN ARMED CONFLICT REPORT
TRT: 02:42
SOURCE: UNIFEED-UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ARABIC / ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 06 JUNE 2016, NEW YORK CITY
FILE – NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, Flags
6 JUNE 2016, NEW YORK CITY
2. Pan right, Al-Mouallimi approaching stakeout
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Abdallah Y. Al-Mouallimi, Permanent Representative, Saudi Arabia:
“That number is widely exaggerated; the sixty percent is widely exaggerated. We think that in there are any casualties from the coalition side, they would be far far lower than that, if there are mistakes that may have happened, they are being investigated. There may be some collateral damage from time to time. This is the nature of warfare. But we know that we are using the most up-to-date equipment in precision targeting, and we have pictures and videos that verify that and we are going to present any of that. We would have been prepared to present all of that to the United Nations if we were consulted.”
FILE – NEW YORK CITY
4. Close up, reporter writing
6 JUNE 2016, NEW YORK CITY
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Abdallah Y. Al-Mouallimi, Permanent Representative, Saudi Arabia:
“The timing of this report is most unfortunate because it comes as we are hoping for a breakthrough in the discussions in Kuwait leading to an agreement and hopefully leading to a beginning and end to the hostilities. And issuing such a report at this time can only be counterproductive for the purposes of the peace negotiations in Yemen.”
FILE – NEW YORK CITY
6. Close up, reporter writing
6 JUNE 2016, NEW YORK CITY
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abdallah Y. Al-Mouallimi, Permanent Representative, Saudi Arabia:
“Of course, the other side – the Houthis and supporters of former President Ali Abdullah Saleh- are the one recruiting child soldiers. They are the ones using children as mine sweepers. And they are the one who are dragging the whole country into the flames of a battle that had no justification or reason.”
FILE – NEW YORK CITY
8. Close up, reporter writing
6 JUNE 2016, NEW YORK CITY
9. SOUNBITE (Arabic) Abdallah Y. Al-Mouallimi, Permanent Representative, Saudi Arabia:
“We are not giving the report more attention than it deserves. We know that this report has no legal implications and we know that it only expresses the opinion of the Secretariat and The Office of the Secretary-General. However even so we do not accept this classification and we do not accept this mistake.”
FILE – NEW YORK CITY
10. Close up, reporter typing
6 JUNE 2016, NEW YORK CITY
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Abdallah Y. Al-Mouallimi, Permanent Representative, Saudi Arabia:
“That tells us that something is wrong in the mechanism and in the process of preparing such a report. The Secretary-General in his wisdom last year to eliminate Israel’s name from the report, we fail to see why has he not exercised the same wisdom in this report this year.
FILE – NEW YORK CITY
12. Zoom out, cameras
6 JUNE 2016, NEW YORK CITY
13. Zoom out, stakeout out
Saudi ambassador Abdallah Al-Mouallimi said his country was extremely disappointed by a report issued by the Secretary-General regarding the protection of children in armed conflict. The report released last week said approximately 60 percent of child fatalities and injuries in Yemen were caused by the Saudi-led coalition.
Al-Mouallimi said the timing of the report was unfortunate “as we are hoping for a breakthrough in the discussions in Kuwait leading to an agreement and hopefully leading to a beginning and end to the hostilities.” He said issuing the report at this time could “only be counterproductive for the purposes of the peace negotiations in Yemen.”
The report added the Saudi-led coalition to its annual blacklist of children’s rights violators. The Saudi ambassador said despite Israel being guilty of “crimes against children that are far in excess to even the inaccurate numbers that the report contains about Yemen”, the Secretary-General removed Israel from the list last year. He said “Israel throughout its history has been guilty of attacking schools with children in them” yet they are never blacklisted. He said “that tells us that something is wrong in the mechanism and in the process of preparing such a report.”
