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STORY: UN / UKRAINE
TRT: 03:03
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / RUSSIAN / NATS
DATELINE: 18 MAY 2023, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior UN Headquarters
18 MAY 2023, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Adedeji Ebo, Deputy to High Representative for Disarmament Affairs:
“The provision of military assistance to the armed forces of Ukraine has continued.”
4. Wide shot, Council
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Adedeji Ebo, Deputy to High Representative for Disarmament Affairs:
“These transfers have included heavy conventional weapons including battle tanks, armoured combat vehicles, combat aircraft helicopters, large-calibre artillery systems, missile systems and uncrewed combat aerial vehicles, as well as remotely operated munitions and small arms and light weapons. There have also been reports of States transferring or planning to transfer weapons, such as uncrewed combat aerial vehicles and ammunition, to the Russian armed forces for use in Ukraine.”
6. Med shot, Russian Ambassador Vasily Nebenzya
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Adedeji Ebo, Deputy to High Representative for Disarmament Affairs:
“Measures to address the risk of diversion to unauthorized end users and for unauthorized uses are essential to prevent further instability and insecurity in Ukraine, the region and beyond.”
8. Med shot, Nebenzya speaking
9. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Vasily Nebenzya, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Russian Federation:
“Western countries insist that they are not party to the conflict and are simply helping the Ukraine defend itself. However, the reality is the polar opposite, for there is a proxy war being waged against Russia. Since the last meeting of the Council in February on the supply of Western weapons to Ukraine, the influx has not only not decreased but it is ever growing. Testament to this is the stance of NATO countries to the escalation, it's clear that they are not interested in any peaceful solution to the conflict whatsoever.”
10. Wide shot, Council
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert A. Wood, Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Alternate Representative for Special Political Affairs, United States:
“The provision of weapons for Ukraine's territorial defence is not extending or exacerbating this conflict, rather, these arms help repel Russia's invasion of its neighbour and prevent an even further invasion of Ukraine's sovereign territory. These arms shipments help prevent Russia from further brutalizing Ukraine's civilians, forcing them from their homes, and driving up energy and food costs across Europe and around the world.”
12. Med shot, Nebenzya
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Sergiy Kyslytsya, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ukraine:
“Ukraine will continue to exercise its right of self-defence in strict accordance with Article 51 of the UN Charter. We will continue to fight until every Ukrainian citizen and every person who was overland liberated, and Russia suffers military defeat in Ukraine.”
14. Zoom out, end of meeting
Briefing the Security Council on the issue of Western weapons supplies to Ukraine today (18 May), the Deputy to the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Adedeji Ebo, said, “the provision of military assistance to the armed forces of Ukraine has continued,” while reportedly there have also been weapons transfers “to the Russian armed forces for use in Ukraine.”
Ebo said, transfers to Ukraine have included “heavy conventional weapons including battle tanks, armoured combat vehicles, combat aircraft helicopters, large-calibre artillery systems, missile systems and uncrewed combat aerial vehicles, as well as remotely operated munitions and small arms and light weapons,” while “there have also been reports of States transferring or planning to transfer weapons, such as uncrewed combat aerial vehicles and ammunition, to the Russian armed forces for use in Ukraine.”
The disarmament official stressed that “measures to address the risk of diversion to unauthorized end users and for unauthorized uses are essential to prevent further instability and insecurity in Ukraine, the region and beyond.”
He called on States to consider joining all other related treaties and live up to their legal obligations and political commitments.
Russian Ambassador Vasily Nebenzya told the Council that “Western countries insist that they are not party to the conflict and are simply helping the Ukraine defend itself. However, the reality is the polar opposite, for there is a proxy war being waged against Russia.”
Nebenzya said that since the last meeting of the Council in February on the subject, “the influx has not only not decreased but it is ever growing.” He said it was “clear” that NATO members “are not interested in any peaceful solution to the conflict whatsoever.”
10. Wide shot, Council
United States representative Robert A. Wood said, “the provision of weapons for Ukraine's territorial defence is not extending or exacerbating this conflict, rather, these arms help repel Russia's invasion of its neighbour and prevent an even further invasion of Ukraine's sovereign territory.”
These arms shipments, he said, “help prevent Russia from further brutalizing Ukraine's civilians, forcing them from their homes, and driving up energy and food costs across Europe and around the world.”
For his part, Ukraine’s Ambassador Sergiy Kyslytsya said, “Ukraine will continue to exercise its right of self-defence in strict accordance with Article 51 of the UN Charter. We will continue to fight until every Ukrainian citizen and every person who was overland liberated, and Russia suffers military defeat in Ukraine.”
The UN human rights office’s latest figures show nearly 24,000 recorded casualties since Russia’s invasion began, with the actual figure likely to be much higher.
