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STORY: UN / UKRAINE
TRT: 02:35:
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / RUSSIAN / NATS
DATELINE: 06 DECEMBER 2022, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, UN Headquarters
06 DECEMBER 2022, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. Med shot, Ukraine’s Ambassador
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Martin Griffiths, Under Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator:
“The attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure, including power stations and heating plants have left millions of people without access to heat, electricity and water, adding another dangerous dimension to the humanitarian crisis caused by the war.”
5. Wide shot, delegates
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Martin Griffiths, Under Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator:
“In preparation for the winter, humanitarians have provided more than 630,000 civilians with different kinds of direct winter assistance, and 400 generators have been distributed to critical facilities. Since October, the sustained attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure have created a new level of need that impacts the whole country and exacerbates and increases the needs caused by the war. The scale of the destruction of the electrical and heating infrastructure requires the international community's enhanced support to the Government of Ukraine beyond what humanitarians could provide.”
7. Wide shot, delegates
8. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Vasily Nebenzya Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Russia:
“Militarily, the Ukrainian people are suffering from this. They're being used by the West and the criminal Ukrainian regime as cannon fodder. The fact that the West is not interested in a political diplomatic settlement of the Ukrainian crisis, being confirmed by the results of the NATO Council meeting on the 29th and 30th of November in Bucharest by expanding deliveries of weapons to Ukraine, the West is confirming its desire not only to have a further escalation of the conflict, but to destabilize the situation In Europe.”
9. Med shot, delegates
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Sergiy Kyslytsya, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ukraine:
“While the armed forces of Ukraine continue to do their job to defeat Russia militarily, the international community must start considering the modalities of post Putin arrangements with Moscow, arrangements that should include a new Budapest Memorandum to be signed by Moscow in the context of its denuclearization. It is still to be seen how soon after its military defeat, and by whom this document could be signed on behalf of the territory with administrative centre in Moscow.”
11. Med shot, Griffiths
12. Wide shot, Council
The United Nations top humanitarian official today (6 Dec) said attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure “have left millions of people without access to heat, electricity and water, adding another dangerous dimension to the humanitarian crisis caused by the war.”
Martin Griffiths, who is the United Nations Under Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, said, “in preparation for the winter, humanitarians have provided more than 630,000 civilians with different kinds of direct winter assistance, and 400 generators have been distributed to critical facilities.”
He said, “since October, the sustained attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure have created a new level of need that impacts the whole country and exacerbates and increases the needs caused by the war.”
The scale of the destruction of the electrical and heating infrastructure, Griffiths added, “requires the international community's enhanced support to the Government of Ukraine beyond what humanitarians could provide.”
Russian Ambassador Vasily Nebenzya told the Council that the Ukrainian people “are being used by the West and the criminal Ukrainian regime as cannon fodder.”
Nebenzya said, “the fact that the West is not interested in a political diplomatic settlement of the Ukrainian crisis, being confirmed by the results of the NATO Council meeting on the 29th and 30th of November in Bucharest by expanding deliveries of weapons to Ukraine, the West is confirming its desire not only to have a further escalation of the conflict, but to destabilize the situation In Europe.”
For his part, Ukraine’s Ambassador Sergiy Kyslytsya said, “while the armed forces of Ukraine continue to do their job to defeat Russia militarily, the international community must start considering the modalities of post Putin arrangements with Moscow, arrangements that should include a new Budapest Memorandum to be signed by Moscow in the context of its denuclearization.”
Kyslytsya said, “it is still to be seen how soon after its military defeat, and by whom this document could be signed on behalf of the territory with administrative centre in Moscow.”
The Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances was signed at the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) conference in Budapest, Hungary, on 5 December 1994, and provides security assurances relating to the accession of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT).
