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STORY: UN / GAZA US THOMAS-GREENFIELD
TRT: 01:56
SOURCE: UNIFEED
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LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 02 FEBRUARY 2024, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Tilt up, exterior, United Nations Headquarters
02 FEBRUARY 2024, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield walks up to stakeout podium
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, United States:
“If accepted and implemented, this proposal would move all parties one step closer to creating the conditions for a sustainable cessation of hostilities. The Council has the obligation; it has the obligation to ensure that any action we take in the coming days increases pressure on Hamas to accept the proposal. We believe that the draft resolution put forward by Algeria does not achieve this end. On the contrary, this draft resolution could put sensitive negotiations in jeopardy.”
4. Wide shot, Thomas-Greenfield at the podium
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, United States:
“There must be a swift, comprehensive investigation by the UN and an independent external review by a non UN body, of UNWRA, including the serious allegations that it has employees who participated in the October 7th attack and other related issues. That is how we restore donor confidence, and it's how we ensure that nothing like this happens again.”
6. Wide shot, Thomas-Greenfield at the podium
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, United States:
“President Biden has long spoken out against extremist violence in the West Bank, and the executive order signed yesterday is a means of addressing these actions, including acts or threats of violence against civilians, intimidation of civilians, causing them to leave their homes, destruction or seizure of property and acts of terrorism, all of which undermine security, peace and stability for Israelis and Palestinians alike.”
8. Wide shot, Kaag at the podium
9. Pan left, Thomas-Greenfield walks away
United States Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield today (2 Feb) told reporters in New York that “if accepted and implemented,” a proposal being brokered by the US, Egypt, and Qatar, “would move all parties one step closer to creating the conditions for a sustainable cessation of hostilities.”
Thomas-Greenfield said the Security Council “has the obligation to ensure that any action we take in the coming days increases pressure on Hamas to accept the proposal,” and added that a draft resolution put forward by Algeria “does not achieve this end.”
She said, “on the contrary, this draft resolution could put sensitive negotiations in jeopardy.”
On the Palestinian Refugee Agency (UNRWA), the US Ambassador said, “there must be a swift, comprehensive investigation by the UN and an independent external review by a non UN body, of UNWRA, including the serious allegations that it has employees who participated in the October 7th attack and other related issues.”
That, she said, “is how we restore donor confidence, and it's how we ensure that nothing like this happens again.”
Commenting on the executive order signed Thursday by US President Joe Biden, Thomas-Greenfield said Biden “has long spoken out against extremist violence in the West Bank,” and this was “a means of addressing these actions, including acts or threats of violence against civilians, intimidation of civilians, causing them to leave their homes, destruction or seizure of property and acts of terrorism, all of which undermine security, peace and stability for Israelis and Palestinians alike.”
The executive order targets Israeli settlers in the West Bank, imposing sanctions and visa bans against four individuals.