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STORY: UN / QUARTET REPORT
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SOURCE: UNIFEED-UNTV
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 30 JUNE 2016, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Tilt up, exterior UN building
30 JUNE 2016, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. Med shot, Nickolay Mladenov addressing Council
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Nickolay Mladenov, United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process:
“Palestinian frustration cannot be wished away; it cannot be vanquished by aggressive security measures, arrests or punitive home demolitions. Neither is it helped when Israeli ministers openly reject the very notion of a Palestinian state or call for the complete annexation of Area C. But neither will the violence and terror, fuelled by resentment, bring about a Palestinian state. A peaceful future for both peoples cannot emerge on the back of statements that glorify terror and justify killing.”
5. Med shot delegates
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Nickolay Mladenov, United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process:
“The Quartet pledges its active support for ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on the basis of United Nations Security Council resolutions 242 from 1967 and 338 from 1973. It also reaffirms that a negotiated two-state outcome that meets Israeli security needs and Palestinian aspirations for statehood and sovereignty, that ends the occupation that began in 1967, and resolves all permanent status issues is the only way to achieve enduring peace.”
7. Med shot delegates
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Nickolay Mladenov, United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process:
“There is an urgent need for both sides to comply with their basic commitments under existing agreements and take steps to prevent entrenching a one state reality of perpetual occupation and conflict. Mr. President, allow me to outline the three trends that the Quartet report has concluded severely undermine hope for peace. Firstly, it is continuing violence, terrorism, and the incitement that fuel them. Secondly, it is the continuing policy of settlement expansion and related policies in the West Bank, and thirdly, the situation in Gaza and the lack of control of Gaza by the Palestinian Authority.”
9. Med shot delegates
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Nickolay Mladenov, United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process:
“The Quartet has outlined a reasonable set of steps that, if implemented sincerely and resolutely, with support from the international community, could set Israelis and Palestinians firmly along a navigable course towards establishing a comprehensive peace with historic implications for the entire region.”
11. Wide shot, Council
The Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Nickolay Mladenov, today (30 June) presented the key findings of the latest Quartet on the Middle East report to the Security Council.
Before outlining the conclusions of the report, Mladenov said “Palestinian frustration cannot be wished away; it cannot be vanquished by aggressive security measures, arrests or punitive home demolitions. Neither is it helped when Israeli ministers openly reject the very notion of a Palestinian state or call for the complete annexation of Area C. But neither will the violence and terror, fuelled by resentment, bring about a Palestinian state. A peaceful future for both peoples cannot emerge on the back of statements that glorify terror and justify killing.”
The UN official said the Quartet “reaffirms that a negotiated two-state outcome that meets Israeli security needs and Palestinian aspirations for statehood and sovereignty, that ends the occupation that began in 1967, and resolves all permanent status issues is the only way to achieve enduring peace.”
According to Mladenov the Quartet, which includes the United States, Russia, United Nations and European Union, outlines three trends that “severely undermine hopes for peace.”
These include “continuing violence, terrorism, and the incitement that fuel them”; “the continuing policy of settlement expansion and related policies in the West Bank,” and “the situation in Gaza and the lack of control of Gaza by the Palestinian Authority.”
Mladenov said the Quartet “has outlined a reasonable set of steps that, if implemented sincerely and resolutely, with support from the international community, could set Israelis and Palestinians firmly along a navigable course towards establishing a comprehensive peace with historic implications for the entire region.”
The full text of the report is expected to be released Friday morning.
