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STORY: GA / VENEZUELA MADURO
TRT: 02:15
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTION: NONE
LANGUAGE: SPANISH / NATS
DATELINE: 26 SEPTEMBER 2018, NEW YORK CITY
RECENT – NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior, United Nations Headquarters
26 SEPTEMBER 2018, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela at the podium
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Nicolás Maduro, President, Venezuela:
“Venezuela today is the victim of a permanent aggression. Economically Venezuela has been subjugated for the past two years through a series of unilateral and illegal measures of economic persecution, of economic blockade.”
4. Wide shot, Venezuela delegation
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Nicolás Maduro, President, Venezuela:
“In the world media, a case file has been built against our country in order to pretend that there is a humanitarian crisis; a humanitarian crisis that missuses the United Nations parameters to justify a coalition of countries headed by the government of the United States and their satellite governments in Latin America to put their hands on our country.”
6. Wide shot, US delegation
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Nicolás Maduro, President, Venezuela:
“All investigations lead to the conclusion that the terrorist attack of 4 August was prepared, was financed, and was planned from inside United States territory. I have informed the US government through diplomatic channels, the name of those responsible, with proof of the instigators, the financers, and the planners of the grave terrorist attack of 4 August.”
8. Wide shot, Venezuela delegation
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Nicolás Maduro, President, Venezuela:
“Despite of all the differences, which we could say are abysmal, the President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro Moro, would be ready, I would be ready to shake the hand of the President of the United States and to sit down and have a dialogue about the issues and bilateral differences as well as our regional issues.”
10. Zoom out, audience applause
Venezuela’s President, Nicolás Maduro, today (26 Sep) told the General Assembly that his country “is the victim of a permanent aggression” and “has been subjugated for the past two years through a series of unilateral and illegal measures of economic persecution, of economic blockade.”
Maduro said that “a case file” has been built in the international media “in order to pretend that there is a humanitarian crisis” in Venezuela “to justify a coalition of countries headed by the government of the United States and their satellite governments in Latin America to put their hands on our country.”
The President of Venezuela said, “all investigations lead to the conclusion that the terrorist attack of 4 August was prepared, was financed, and was planned from inside United States territory.”
He said that the names of those responsible for planning and financing the attack – conducted with explosive drones during a military parade - to the US government through diplomatic channels.
Maduro said that “despite of all the differences, which we could say are abysmal” he is willing to meet with US President Donald J. Trump “and have a dialogue about the issues and bilateral differences as well as our regional issues.”
