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STORY: UN / LIBYA KOBLER
TRT: 01:38
SOURCE: UNTV
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH NATS
DATELINE: 06 JUNE 2016, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
06 JUNE 2016, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot , Security Council
3. Med shot, Libyan Ambassador Ibrahim Dabbashi
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Martin Kobler, Special Representative, Head of United Nations Support Mission in Libya:
“There must be clear lines and principles if there is any hope for the Libyan people to exit from the current state that has engulfed their country.”
5. Med shot, delegates
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Martin Kobler, Special Representative, Head of United Nations Support Mission in Libya:
“The sense of hope and optimism with which people across Libya welcomed the signing of the agreement and the and the arrival of the Presidency Council in Tripoli, stands in contrast today to the sense of growing impatience and concern. At this critical moment in Libya’s transition, facts must be acknowledged as they are. It has been almost five months now since the Presidency Council submitted a revised proposal for the government of national accord. Today, Libya is still without a formally endorsed government.”
7. Med shot, Council
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Martin Kobler, Special Representative, Head of United Nations Support Mission in Libya:
“Given the scale of problems facing Libya’s population, the country must have a functioning government, ministries and bureaucracy. The rapidly deteriorating humanitarian situation, the escalating military tensions linked to the fight against Da’esh, requires boldness, determination and decisiveness.”
9. Med shot, delegates
10. Zoom out, Security Council
The United Nations Special Representative for Libya, Martin Kobler, told the Security Council today (6 June) that there must be “clear lines and principles if there is to be any hope” for the Libyan people.
Kobler said “the sense of hope and optimism with which people across Libya welcomed the signing of the agreement and the arrival of the Presidency Council in Tripoli, stands in contrast today to the sense of growing impatience and concern.”
At this “critical moment in Libya’s transition,” he said, “facts must be acknowledged as they are” and noted that “iIt has been almost five months now since the Presidency Council submitted a revised proposal for the government of national accord” and Libya is “still without a formally endorsed government.”
Kobler said that “given the scale of problems facing Libya’s population, the country must have a functioning government, ministries and bureaucracy.”
“The rapidly deteriorating humanitarian situation, the escalating military tensions linked to the fight against Da’esh,” he said, “requires boldness, determination and decisiveness.”
