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STORY: UN / VENEZUELA
TRT: 03:00
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / SPANISH / NATS
DATELINE: 25 SEPTEMBER 2017, NEW YORK CITY / RECENT
RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
25 SEPTEMBER 2017, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Venezuela’s Foreign Minister at the GA podium
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jorge Arreaza, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela:
“Like a global emperor, the President of the United States, Donald Trump, use this forum, built for peace, to announce wars, total destruction of member states, application of unilateral and illegal coercive measures, threatening and judging at pleasure, as if he had absolute dictatorial powers over the sovereign members of our organization.”
4. Wide shot, Arreaza at the podium
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jorge Arreaza, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela:
“Today, we have the obligation to denounce to the world, that on August 11 this year, our people were threatened directly by the President of the United States with the use of the most powerful military force that has existed in the history of mankind. As a complement to such anachronism and offense to our sovereignty and the peace that has always characterized our Latin America and Caribbean, on August 25th the Trump administration imposed illegal economic sanctions on our economy, in order to make our people suffer, to force undemocratic changes in our system of government.”
6. Med shot, delegates
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jorge Arreaza, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela:
“Faced with such attitudes, the United Nations must generate effective mechanisms to neutralize these hawkish claims and the intentions of supplanting multilateralism, which has cost so much effort to consolidate, by the dictatorial unilateralism of those who intend to impose, with the use of the weapons and economic blackmail, destruction and a single viewpoint onto our diverse and heterogeneous humanity.”
8. Med shot, applause
9. Wide shot, Arreaza walks away
10. Pan right, Arreaza walks up to the stakeout podium
11. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jorge Arreaza, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela:
“These new sanctions are just more pretence in order to justify and to plant an idea in the public’s opinion against Venezuela, to place us at the same level as other, bigger, problems that don’t make any sense, and that are just trying to confuse you, members of the press, so that you in turn, through a process of mediatic alienation, confuse the American people.”
12. Wide shot, Arreaza at the podium
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Jorge Arreaza, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela:
“President Trump, as Richard Nixon, as Joseph McCarthy, is trying to resuscitate the cold war against Venezuela; against Cuba. And that’s unacceptable. Those times are over. We have to look to the future. The world is in trouble. The climate change is bringing a lot of trouble to many countries in the world. We don’t want wars. We don’t want different ideologies to separate each country from the other. We have to get together in order to help the nations and the peoples of the world. Thank you very much.”
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Venezuela, Jorge Arreaza, today (25 Sep) said that “like a global emperor” the President of the United States, Donald Trump, had used the General Assembly’s General Debate “to announce wars, total destruction of member states, application of unilateral and illegal coercive measures, threatening and judging at pleasure, as if he had absolute dictatorial powers over the sovereign members of our organization.”
The Minister denounced that on 11 August “our people were threatened directly by the President of the United States with the use of the most powerful military force that has existed in the history of mankind” and later, on 25 August, “imposed illegal economic sanctions on our economy, in order to make our people suffer, to force undemocratic changes in our system of government.”
He said that “faced with such attitudes, the United Nations must generate effective mechanisms to neutralize these hawkish claims and the intentions of supplanting multilateralism, which has cost so much effort to consolidate, by the dictatorial unilateralism of those who intend to impose, with the use of the weapons and economic blackmail, destruction and a single viewpoint onto our diverse and heterogeneous humanity.”
Speaking to journalists after his address to the Debate, Arreaza said the inclusion of Venezuela in Trump’s new travel ban, is “just more pretence in order to justify and to plant an idea in the public’s opinion against Venezuela, to place us at the same level as other, bigger, problems that don’t make any sense, and that are just trying to confuse you, members of the press, so that you in turn, through a process of mediatic alienation, confuse the American people.”
He said that “President Trump, as Richard Nixon, as Joseph McCarthy, is trying to resuscitate the cold war against Venezuela; against Cuba. And that’s unacceptable. Those times are over. We have to look to the future. The world is in trouble. The climate change is bringing a lot of trouble to many countries in the world. We don’t want wars. We don’t want different ideologies to separate each country from the other. We have to get together in order to help the nations and the peoples of the world.”
