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STORY: GA / SYRIA
TRT: 3:58
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ARABIC / ENGLISH / RUSSIAN / NATS
DATELINE: 20 OCTOBER 2016, NEW YORK CITY
RECENT – NEW YORK CITY
1.Wide shot, exterior United Nations
20 OCTOBER 2016, NEW YORK CITY
2. Various shots, conference room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Grave violations of human rights and international humanitarian law have been committed in Syria. Some of these may amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity. I call on all of you to cooperate and fulfil your collective responsibility to protect.
4. Med shot, delegates
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Members of the government who gave orders or were part of the chain of command must be brought to account. Others on the battlefield must also be brought into the halls of justice.”
6. Wide shot, conference room
7.SOUNDBITE (English) Staffan de Mistura, United Nations Special Envoy for Syria:
“The evacuation of the fighters of Al Nusra, which are indeed listed as terrorist organization by the UN, and that does not apply however to the members of other non-terrorist organizations and armed groups’ present in Aleppo unless they want to leave. They could leave and should be leave with their weapons, from eastern Aleppo to an agreed place or places agreed.”
8. Wide shot, conference room
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Bashar Ja’afari, Permanent Representative of Syria to the United Nations:
“The Syrian government welcomes the convene of any meeting on Syria as long as it aims to help the Syrian people and in honest manner instead of exploiting its suffering for political intervention agendas, especially by states that violate the severity of Syria through a so-called international collation against terrorism.”
10. Wide shot, conference room
11. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Bashar Ja’afari, Permanent Representative of Syria to the United Nations:
“I would like to address some of my questions to the General Assembly. How can the humanitarian situation of my country Syria improve while unilateral corrosive measures continue to be imposed on the Syrian people, the so-called sanctions. How can we improve the situation while mercenary foreign terrorists continue to flood our country through the border with Turkey? These terrorists were provided with the support from those these countries, the same countries have called for the convene of this meeting.”
12. Wide shot, conference room
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Samantha Power, Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations:
“The solution is also for Russia to stop using the privilege of holding a permanent seat on the UN Security Council to veto very resolution that demands an end to the attacks.”
14. Wide shot, delegates,
15.SOUNDBITE (English) Samantha Power, Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations:
“Accountability starts by speaking the truth of the horror we are witnessing. The perpetrators have names. When we don’t say the Syrian regime or Russia, we obscure responsibility in a way that each of us would find totally intolerable if we found our families or our neighbours pummeled like those in eastern Aleppo."
16. Wide shot, conference room
17. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Vitaly Churkin, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations:
“Stop, and enough already. Here we got representatives of some of the countries who are very aware their countries finance and provide weapons to terrorist organizations, Al Nustra, ISIL and others, which for some reason have not been included on the terrorist list of the United Nations. So stop giving them weapons and money, and then I am sure the humanitarian situation in Syria would improve quite quickly.
18. Wide shot, conference room
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“I appeal again to Member States for the financial support we need on both these tracks to ensure success. We must fulfil our moral duty to the people of Haiti.”
United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on member states to fulfil their “collective responsibility to protect", adding that "grave violations of human rights and international humanitarian law have been committed in Syria. Some of these may amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity.”
Speaking to delegates today (20 Oct),UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said that accountability is a responsibility that must be upheld, adding that “members of the government who gave orders or were part of the chain of command must be brought to account. Others on the battlefield must also be brought into the halls of justice.”
UN Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura, speaking via. video conference in Geneva, clarified five points that could bring an end to the emergency in Aleppo.
On evacuation of the Al Nusra fighters, de Mistrua said “the evacuation of the fighters of Al Nusra, which are indeed listed as terrorist organization by the UN, and that does not apply however to the members of other non-terrorist organizations and armed groups’ present in Aleppo unless they want to leave. They could leave and should be leave with their weapons, from eastern Aleppo to an agreed place or places agreed.”
The Syrian Ambassador Bashar Ja’afari told the delegates that his country welcomes the convene of any meeting on Syria “as long as it aims to help the Syrian people and in honest manner instead of exploiting its suffering for political intervention agendas, especially by states that violate the severity of Syria through a so-called international collation against terrorism.”
He also addressed his concerns to the delegates, he said “how can the humanitarian situation of my country Syria improve while unilateral corrosive measures continue to be imposed on the Syrian people, the so-called sanctions. How can we improve the situation while mercenary foreign terrorists continue to flood our country through the border with Turkey? These terrorists were provided with the support from those these countries, the same countries have called for the convene of this meeting.”
United States (US) Ambassador Samantha Power said that the solution to end the conflict in Syria is “for Russia to stop using the privilege of holding a permanent seat on the UN Security Council to veto very resolution that demands an end to the attacks.”
She added “accountability starts by speaking the truth of the horror we are witnessing. The perpetrators have names. When we don’t say the Syrian regime or Russia, we obscure responsibility in a way that each of us would find totally intolerable if we found our families or our neighbours pummeled like those in eastern Aleppo.”
Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said “here we got representatives of some of the countries who are very aware their countries finance and provide weapons to terrorist organizations, Al Nustra, ISIL and others, which for some reason have not been included on the terrorist list of the United Nations. So stop giving them weapons and money, and then I am sure the humanitarian situation in Syria would improve quite quickly.”
According to UN, a Russian unilateral declaration of a humanitarian pause of 11 hours a day for four consecutive days, beginning today (20 Oct), will allow for the safe evacuation of 200 wounded residents from the devastated east of the Syrian city of Aleppo.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon also appealed to member states for the financial support in Haiti and to fulfil “moral duty to the people of Haiti.”
