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STORY: UN / US ELECTION MONITORS
TRT: 01:00
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 08 NOVEMBER 2016, NEW YORK CITY
RECENT - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, UNHQ exterior
08 NOVEMBER 2016, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, press room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson, United Nations:
“There are no United Nations monitors in any polling station in the United States; full stop.”
4. Med shot, reporter asking question
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson, United Nations:
(Soundbite starts under cutaway) “First of all any UN involvement on elections is at the request of a government. We would have to be invited. And increasingly the UN, unless in certain circumstances, is not involved in observing elections. We are often involved helping coordinate the observers and helping organize the logistical end of elections, but to make it clear for all in sundry there is no United Nations involvement in the presidential elections in the United States of America going on today.”
6. Wide shot, press room
A UN spokesman said that reports of UN election monitors throughout the United State are false, “full stop”.
In response to a question today (8 Nov) about stories emerging from supporters of one of the candidates that UN election monitors were “fanned out all over the US watching the polls”, Stephane Dujarric said, there were “no United Nations monitors in any polling station in the United States; full stop.”
The spokesperson said any UN involvement in an election would have to be at the request of the country’s government. He said the UN had increasingly been not involved in observing elections rather it was “often involved helping coordinate the observers and helping organize the logistical end of elections.” He stressed that the United Nations had no involvement in the American presidential election “to make it clear for all in sundry.”
