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STORY: UN / PAKISTAN BHUTTO-ZARDARI
TRT: 03:19
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 15 DECEMBER 2022, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior UN Headquarters
15 DECEMBER 2022, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, press room dais
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Bhutto-Zardari, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Pakistan:
“We believe that permanent members, the right to a veto, are fundamentally undemocratic vestiges at the United Nations. They have been the reason that a whole host of issues we have been unable to address here at the United Nations. And we believe that the problem surely cannot be the solution. Surely, the solution to paralysis of the United Nations cannot be more permanent members, cannot be more tyrannical authoritarian vetoes.”
4. Wide shot, journalists
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Bhutto-Zardari, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Pakistan:
“As a Muslim, as Pakistani, as a victim of terrorism, I believe it is time that we move away from some of the Islamophobic narrative framing of this issue that took place after the awful attacks of September 11th, 2001.”
6. Wide shot, press room dais
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari,, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Pakistan:
“More Muslims have been killed in terrorist attacks from 2001, up until 2022, just in sheer quantity of victims. So, we demand to be recognized as the victims not the perpetrators of terror.”
8. Wide shot, press room dais
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Pakistan:
“It is about time that India, and Pakistan, and the international community work together to ensure that so-called non-state actors, wherever they are, wherever they conduct their nefarious activities from, wherever they target, whether they target Pakistan, whether they target any other country, that we work together to ensure that the financing support and facilitation of these groups come to an end.”
10. Wide shot, press room dais
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari,, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Pakistan:
“We have proof that your government facilitated a terrorist attack in Pakistan. So, I don't see how Pakistan is the epicentre of terrorism. I do believe that we are the victims of terrorism. If it's not the government of India, certainly the people of India have been victims of terrorism. The people of Afghanistan have been victims of terrorism. The people of the United States, the people of Europe have been the victims of terrorism. And it's for us to work together to combat the politics of hate, to combat whether it's Islamic extremism or Hindu extremism. To come together and face these challenges.”
12. Wide shot, end of presser
Pakistan’s Foreign Minister, Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, today (15 Dec) said permanent membership in the Security Council and the right to a veto, “are fundamentally undemocratic vestiges at the United Nations.”
Speaking to reporters in New York, Bhutto-Zardari emphasized that, “the solution to paralysis of the United Nations cannot be more permanent members, cannot be more tyrannical authoritarian vetoes.”
The Foreign Minister, whose mother, former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in 2007, said, “as a Muslim, as Pakistani, as a victim of terrorism, I believe it is time that we move away from some of the Islamophobic narrative framing of this issue that took place after the awful attacks of September 11th, 2001.”
He said, “more Muslims have been killed in terrorist attacks from 2001, up until 2022, just in sheer quantity of victims. So, we demand to be recognized as the victims not the perpetrators of terror.”
Bhutto-Zardari told reporters that it was “about time that India, and Pakistan, and the international community work together to ensure that so-called non-state actors, wherever they are, wherever they conduct their nefarious activities from, wherever they target, whether they target Pakistan, whether they target any other country, that we work together to ensure that the financing support and facilitation of these groups come to an end.”
Presenting a dossier, the Pakistani official said, “we have proof” that the Indian Government “facilitated a terrorist attack in Pakistan.”
He said, “I don't see how Pakistan is the epicentre of terrorism. I do believe that we are the victims of terrorism. If it's not the government of India, certainly the people of India have been victims of terrorism. The people of Afghanistan have been victims of terrorism. The people of the United States, the people of Europe have been the victims of terrorism. And it's for us to work together to combat the politics of hate, to combat whether it's Islamic extremism or Hindu extremism. To come together and face these challenges.”
Bhutto-Zardari was in New York to participate in a Ministerial level meeting of the Security Council on multilateralism reform.
