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STORY: UN / UKRAINE
TRT: 03:12
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / RUSSIAN / NATS
DATELINE: 21 JULY 2023, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior UN Headquarters
06 JULY 2023, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. Med shot, Ukraine’s Ambassador Sergiy Kyslytsya
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Rosemary DiCarlo, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs:
“The new wave of attacks on Ukrainian ports risks having far reaching impacts on global food security, in particular, in developing countries. Furthermore, as we have repeatedly stated, attacks against civilian infrastructure may constitute a violation of international humanitarian law.”
5. Wide shot, DiCarlo at the Council dais
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Rosemary DiCarlo, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs:
“Any risk of conflict spill over as a result of a military incident in the Black Sea – whether intentional or by accident - must be avoided at all costs, as this could result in potentially catastrophic consequences to us all.”
7. Med shot, Council dais
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Martin Griffiths, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency
Relief Coordinator:
“Monday’s confirmation that the Russian Federation was withdrawing from the Black Sea Initiative was immensely disappointing to all of us. And all of way beyond this Chamber. And the developments in the four days since - as Rosemary just said - have been alarming.”
9. Wide shot, dais
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Martin Griffiths, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency
Relief Coordinator:
“Escalatory rhetoric also threatens to further undermine the safe transportation of food through the Black Sea more broadly. And with no access to ports or world markets, farmers may have no choice but to stop farming. In addition to the global effects, this would have an immediate impact on domestic food prices and on the economic stability of Ukraine.”
11. Wide shot, Council
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, United States:
“Russia is waging war on the world's food supply. It is waging war on the poor at a time when needs are so dire and you've heard that people are hungry and people will die. And the United States has information that the Russian military may expand his targeting of Ukrainian grain facilities to include attacks against civilian shipping in the Black Sea.”
13. Wide shot, Russian Ambassador Dmitry Polyanskiy addressing Council
14. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Dmitry Polyanskiy, Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Russian Federation:
“They had no intention ever to implement the Russia UN memorandum, as was the case with the Minsk agreements. The unstinting implementation of the Istanbul agreement is something that was demanded only of us and to our detriment, and now they are deceitfully attempting to accuse the Russian Federation of derailing this deal, and they are attempting to accuse us and blame us for all the misfortune of African and other countries, the states where the West squeezed out all their juices and plundered and looted its resources.”
15. Med shot, dais
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Sergiy Kyslytsya, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ukraine:
“Russia withdrawal from the grain initiative and these constant cynical attacks on Ukrainian broad infrastructure, navigation means and grain terminals are nothing else but Russia's attempts to eliminate a market competitor, deliberately raise world food prices, and make profit at the expense of millions of people around the world."
17. Wide shot, end of Council session
Briefing the Security Council, Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, Rosemary DiCarlo, today (21 Jul) expressed regret over the decision by the Russian Federation to terminate its participation in the Black Sea Initiative and said, “the new wave of attacks on Ukrainian ports risks having far-reaching impacts on global food security, in particular, in developing countries.”
Furthermore, DiCarlo said, “against civilian infrastructure may constitute a violation of international humanitarian law.”
She stressed that “any risk of conflict spill over as a result of a military incident in the Black Sea – whether intentional or by accident - must be avoided at all costs, as this could result in potentially catastrophic consequences to us all.”
Also briefing the Council, the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Martin Griffiths said, “Monday’s confirmation that the Russian Federation was withdrawing from the Black Sea Initiative was immensely disappointing to all of us. And all of way beyond this Chamber. And the developments in the four days since - as Rosemary just said - have been alarming.”
Griffiths said, “escalatory rhetoric also threatens to further undermine the safe transportation of food through the Black Sea more broadly. And with no access to ports or world markets, farmers may have no choice but to stop farming.”
In her address to the Council, United States Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield said, “Russia is waging war on the world's food supply. It is waging war on the poor at a time when needs are so dire, and you've heard that people are hungry and people will die.”
The United States, she said, “has information that the Russian military may expand his targeting of Ukrainian grain facilities to include attacks against civilian shipping in the Black Sea.”
Russian Ambassador Dmitry Polyanskiy for his part said Ukraine “had no intention ever to implement the Russia UN memorandum, as was the case with the Minsk agreements.”
Polyanskiy said, “the unstinting implementation of the Istanbul agreement is something that was demanded only of us and to our detriment, and now they are deceitfully attempting to accuse the Russian Federation of derailing this deal, and they are attempting to accuse us and blame us for all the misfortune of African and other countries, the states where the West squeezed out all their juices and plundered and looted its resources.”
Ukraine’s Ambassador Sergiy Kyslytsya, in his address to the Council said, “Russia withdrawal from the grain initiative and these constant cynical attacks on Ukrainian broad infrastructure, navigation means and grain terminals are nothing else but Russia's attempts to eliminate a market competitor, deliberately raise world food prices, and make profit at the expense of millions of people around the world."
After confirming its withdrawal from the Black Sea initiative on Monday, Russia for the fourth consecutive day struck Ukraine’s Black Sea ports in Odesa, Chornomorsk and Mykolaiv with missiles and drones, destroying critical port infrastructure, facilities and grain supplies.
