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STORY: UN / YEMEN
TRT: 02:51
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / ARABIC / NATS
DATELINE: 16 SEPTEMBER 2019, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
16 SEPTEMBER 2019, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council with Martin Griffiths on screen
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Martin Griffiths, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen:
“The attack on ARAMCO facilities in Saudi Arabia this past Saturday morning, 14th of September, which has caused significant disruption to the Kingdom’s crude oil production, has consequences well beyond the region.”
4. Med shot, Yemen representative
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Martin Griffiths, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen:
“At a minimum, this kind of action carries the risk of dragging Yemen into a regional conflagration. Because of one thing we can be certain, and that is that this extremely serious incident makes the chances of a regional conflict that much higher and of a rapprochement that much lower.”
6. Med shot, Yemen representative
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Mark Lowcock, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Emergency Relief Coordinator:
“We see a persistent pattern of attacks in Yemen that kill and injure civilians or damage critical civilian infrastructure. A nationwide ceasefire, as I have long advocated, would reduce people’s exposure to harm right now. All parties must uphold their obligations under humanitarian law at all times.”
6. Wide shot, US Ambassador Kelly Craft at the dais
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Kelly Craft, Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations:
“The United States condemns these attacks in the strongest possible terms, standing firmly with our Saudi friends. We must all be clear-eyed about this event, a direct assault on the world energy supply. Claims of responsibility have been made, but as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has clearly stated, there is no evidence that the attacks came from Yemen. Emerging information indicates that responsibility lies with Iran.”
8. Med shot, Iran representative
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abdullah Ali Fadhel Al-Saadi, Permanent Representative of Yemen to the United Nations:
“We thank the Kingdom for its commitment to Yemen’s security, it’s stability, its unity, and its territorial integrity. Indeed, all threats to Yemen’s stability, is a threat to the Kingdom’s security and stability. We thank the Kingdom for its very clear position, according to which it supports the legal institution of Yemen as represented by the President of the Republic of Yemen. We thank the Kingdom for its efforts to preserve the foundations of the Yemeni state and the interest of our people. They oppose the Houthi rebels, and we thank them for that. And we thank them for their efforts to guarantee that we do not forget the goals of the Coalition, to fight against Iranian interference in Yemeni domestic affairs.”
10. Med shot, delegates
11. Wide shot, Council
The top United Nations official in Yemen today (16 Sep) told the Security Council that attacks against oil facilities in Saudi Arabia over the weekend, claimed by Houthi rebel fighters, are a sign that the war-torn country could be drawn into even greater conflict.
Briefing via teleconference, the Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Yemen, Martin Griffiths, said “the attack on ARAMCO facilities in Saudi Arabia this past Saturday morning, 14th of September, which has caused significant disruption to the Kingdom’s crude oil production, has consequences well beyond the region.”
Griffiths said, “at a minimum, this kind of action carries the risk of dragging Yemen into a regional conflagration. Because of one thing we can be certain, and that is that this extremely serious incident makes the chances of a regional conflict that much higher and of a rapprochement that much lower.”
In his briefing to the Council, Humanitarian Affairs chief Mark Lowcock said, “we see a persistent pattern of attacks in Yemen that kill and injure civilians or damage critical civilian infrastructure. A nationwide ceasefire, as I have long advocated, would reduce people’s exposure to harm right now. All parties must uphold their obligations under humanitarian law at all times.”
The UN humanitarian affairs coordination office, OCHA, estimates roughly 80 per cent of the population—or 24 million people—require humanitarian aid.
Recently appointed US Ambassador Kelly Craft, in her first briefing to the Council condemned the ARAMCO attacks” in the strongest possible terms.”
Craft said, “we must all be clear-eyed about this event, a direct assault on the world energy supply.”
She said, “claims of responsibility have been made, but as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has clearly stated, there is no evidence that the attacks came from Yemen. Emerging information indicates that responsibility lies with Iran.”
For his part Yemen’s Ambassador Abdullah Ali Fadhel Al-Saadi said, “we thank the Kingdom for its commitment to Yemen’s security, it’s stability, its unity, and its territorial integrity. Indeed, all threats to Yemen’s stability, is a threat to the Kingdom’s security and stability. We thank the Kingdom for its very clear position, according to which it supports the legal institution of Yemen as represented by the President of the Republic of Yemen. We thank the Kingdom for its efforts to preserve the foundations of the Yemeni state and the interest of our people. They oppose the Houthi rebels, and we thank them for that. And we thank them for their efforts to guarantee that we do not forget the goals of the Coalition, to fight against Iranian interference in Yemeni domestic affairs.”
On Sunday, Secretary-General António Guterres appealed for “maximum restraint" following the weekend attacks.
