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STORY: UN / PALESTINE
TRT: 03:42
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 17 JANUARY 2017, NEW YORK CITY
RECENT - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, UNHQ exterior
17 JANUARY 2017, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. SOUNDBITE (English) SOUNDBITE (English) Nickolay Mladenov, Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, United Nations:
“This act of cowardice was neither courageous nor heroic. Such terrorist attacks must be unequivocally condemned by all. It is regrettable that some Palestinian factions and leaders have chosen to praise this attack, to glorify it, or have simple to ignore it.”
4. Med shot, Palestinian ambassador
5. SOUNDBITE (English) SOUNDBITE (English) Nickolay Mladenov, Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, United Nations:
“In the aftermath of the vote, emotions on the ground have been heightened. Calls have been made for the annexation of parts or the whole of Area C. Such divisive positions risk destroying the prospects of peace. All stakeholders must avoid any unilateral action that would prejudge a negotiated final status solution.”
6. Med shot, Israeli ambassador
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Riyad Mansour, Permanent Observer of Palestine to the United Nations:
“Resolution 2334 is not anti-Israel; it is anti-settlements, anti-violence, anti-human rights violations. As such, resolution 2334 is clearly pro-peace, pro-international law, pro two states and thus pro-Palestine and pro-Israel.”
8. Wide shot, Security Council
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Riyad Mansour, Permanent Observer of Palestine to the United Nations:
“The adoption of resolution 2334 represents a turning point. It is a moment of truth. Israel, the occupying Power, must choose between occupation and peace. They are mutually exclusive and cannot coexist. It is time for Israel to choose whether the two-State solution will become reality or whether history will be set on a different course.”
10. Pan left, Security Council
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Danny Danon, Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations:
“This resolution declared that our presence in Jerusalem is illegal. It encouraged the Palestinians to continue to avoid negotiations and inspired the terrorist in Jerusalem. And this was the result: Shir Hajaj, Yael Yekutiel, Erez Orbach and Shira Tzur. They were murdered by a Palestinian who was led to believe that he could use terror and violence to remove the Jewish people from Jerusalem. He will not succeed.”
12. Wide shot, Security Council
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Danny Danon, Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations:
“Today, I represent not only the State of Israel, but the 16 million Jews worldwide who pray and yearn for Jerusalem. Those who came before us prevailed over the attempts to remove us from Jerusalem, and we too shall overcome empty statements and resolutions.”
14. Wide shot, Israeli ambassador
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Danny Danon, Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations:
“Just two days ago, a conference was convened in Paris to supposedly further the cause of peace. This gathering took place, despite Prime Minster Netanyahu's calls to hold a meeting, to meet, with President Abbas instead of a useless conference. Over 70 nations met in the City of Lights without our presence to discuss how we should make peace. What arrogance.”
16. Wide shot, Security Council
The United Nations (UN) Special Coordinator for the Middle East peace process Nickolay Mladenov told the Security Council that peace between Israelis and Palestinians required action by the parties and would not be achieved by “resolutions alone.”
Speaking via teleconference from Jerusalem today (17 Jan), Mladenov said despite the “relative tranquillity” of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict compared to developments in the region, “the spectre of violence was always near.” He condemned last week’s truck-ramming attack in Jerusalem which killed four Israeli soldiers and injured 17 others as an “act of cowardice” that was neither courageous nor heroic adding that it was “regrettable that some Palestinian factions and leaders have chosen to praise this attack, to glorify it, or have simple to ignore it.”
Mladenov said Resolution 2334 adopted last month “reiterated some of the key obstacles to achieving a negotiated two-state solution” including the construction of illegal settlements, terrorism, and incitement. He said calls for annexing part of the West Bank in the aftermath of the vote risked “destroying the prospects for peace.”
Palestinian ambassador Riyad Mansour said Resolution 2334 was “not anti-Israel; it is anti-settlements, anti-violence, anti-human rights violation” rather it was “clearly pro-peace, pro-international law, pro two states and thus pro-Palestine and pro-Israel.” Mansour said the resolution revived hope in peace prospects and convictions in international law and the Council’s “credibility.” He stressed that halting settlement activities should never be seen as a concession or pre-condition, rather it was about fundamental respect for international law, adding that Israel “must choose between occupation and peace.”
Israeli ambassador Danny Danon said the resolution “inspired the terrorist in Jerusalem” to carry out the truck-ramming attack. He said the resolution designated Israel’s presence in “the parts of Jerusalem which we liberated in 1967” as flagrant violation under international law and the Jewish people would “overcome empty statements and resolutions.”
Danon said the Security Council “may have thought” that the resolution would send a message to Israel but instead sent a message to Palestinians to raise the next generation to believe that “Zionism is a foreign occupying power that must be overthrown.” The Israeli ambassador said 70 nations met in Paris two days ago to discuss “how we (Israel) should make peace” adding, “What arrogance.”
