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STORY: UN / VENEZUELA TRUMP REAX
TRT: 02:09
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / SPANISH / NATS
DATELINE: 19 SEPTEMBER 2017, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
2. Med shot, Venezuela’s Foreign Minister walks up to the podium
3. Med shot, journalists
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Jorge Arreaza, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela:
“This is supposed to be the house and the headquarters of the peace and the international law, and what we heard was the opposite of that. It’s a president who comes for the first time and speaks about war, about destroying countries, about blockades against countries, and of course, the country that violates the human rights all over the world, seems to have the moral authority to come and speak to the rest of the countries as if they were his employees.”
5. Med shot, journalists
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Jorge Arreaza, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela:
“We do not accept threats from President Trump or whomever in this world. We are a people of peace, a peaceful people, and what we want is relations of mutual respect, not only with the United States but with all countries all over the world. So, this racist and supremacist theories which he is exposing, this return to the cold war, for a moment we didn’t know if we were listening to President Reagan in 1982, or to President Trump in 2017.”
7. Close up, reporter taking notes
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jorge Arreaza, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela:
“It is an absolute violation of international law. First came the military threat, then came economic sanctions, financial. What they intend is for the Venezuelan people to suffer. What they want is to generate a humanitarian crisis in Venezuela in order to force regime change by force. That is, the absolute violation of every principle in the UN Charter, one by one.”
9. Close up, photographer
10. Med shot, Arreaza walks away
Reacting to US President Donald Trump’s comments during the General Assembly’s General Debate, the Foreign Minister of Venezuela, Jorge Arreaza, today (19 Sep) said Trump speaks “to the rest of the countries as if they were his employees.”
Arreaza said the United Nations “is supposed to be the house and the headquarters of the peace and the international law” and Trump is “a president who comes for the first time and speaks about war, about destroying countries, about blockades against countries.”
The Venezuelan official said “we do not accept threats from President Trump or whomever in this world. We are a people of peace, a peaceful people, and what we want is relations of mutual respect, not only with the United States but with all countries all over the world.”
He said “this racist and supremacist theories which he is exposing, this return to the cold war, for a moment we didn’t know if we were listening to President Reagan in 1982, or to President Trump in 2017.”
Arreaza said “it is an absolute violation of international law. First came the military threat, then came economic sanctions, financial. What they intend is for the Venezuelan people to suffer. What they want is to generate a humanitarian crisis in Venezuela in order to force regime change by force. That is, the absolute violation of every principle in the UN Charter, one by one.”
