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STORY: UN / IRAQ SYRIA US STRIKES
TRT: 7:14
SOURCE: UNIFEED
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / RUSSIAN / ARABIC / NATS
DATELINE: 05 FEBRUARY 2024, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior, United Nations Headquarters
05 FEBRUARY 2024, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Rosemary DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, United Nations:
“The Middle East remains highly volatile. Long-term regional stability demands the implementation of a clear political roadmap in each of these situations. The Secretary-General continues his extensive outreach to all key stakeholders to urge all parties to take concrete measures to de-escalate tensions, and to work towards sustainable political solutions that aim to resolve, rather than merely manage, longstanding conflicts. I appeal to the Council to continue to actively engage all concerned parties to prevent further escalation and the worsening of tensions that undermine regional peace and security.”
4. Wide shot, Security Council
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Rosemary DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, United Nations:
“I reiterate the Secretary-General’s call on all parties to step back from the brink and to consider the unbearable human and economic cost of a potential regional conflict.”
6. Wide shot, Security Council
7. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Vasily Nebenzya, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Russian Federation:
“we decisively condemned this new brazen act of aggression of the US against a sovereign State, creating a further risks and increasing the level of instability in a region that is already on fire, and it is clear that this incident which we are here discussing today, only increases regional tensions caused by unprecedented violence in Gaza, which for more than four months has been suffering from inhumane bloody operation of Israel who the US is covering through all their efforts as well as their satellites, including blocking efforts of the Security Council to impose an immediate humanitarian ceasefire.”
8. Wide shot, Security Council
9. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Vasily Nebenzya, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Russian Federation:
“It is clear that unilateral acts of violence by Washington and their allies only worsen the chaos in the region, nullifying international efforts to reestablish peace in the Middle East, and to find a just solution to the Palestinian question. We call on international community to unequivocally condemn these senseless acts of Washington and its allies in the Middle East, which violate the sovereignty of Iraq and the Syrian Arab Republic.”
10. Wide shot, Security Council
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Wood, Alternative Representative for Special Political Affairs, United States:
“Russia called this meeting under the false pretense that the United States has no ground to respond to attacks that have killed US personnel. It bears repeating, therefore, that the actions US forces took on February 2nd are necessary and proportionate, consistent with international law and an exercise of the United States inherent right to self-defense.”
12. Wide shot, Security Council
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Wood, Alternative Representative for Special Political Affairs, United States:
“Let me be clear, United States does not desire more conflict in the region when we are actively working to contain and deescalate the conflict in Gaza and we are not seeking a direct conflict with Iran. But we will continue to defend our personnel against unacceptable attacks, period.”
14. Wide shot, Security Council
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Wood, Alternative Representative for Special Political Affairs, United States:
“We call on every member of this council and especially those with direct channels to Iran to press the Iran’s leaders to rein in their militias and stop these attacks. They should also press the Syrian regime to stop giving Iran a platform to destabilize the region.”
16. Wide shot, Security Council
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Wood, Alternative Representative for Special Political Affairs, United States:
“As President Biden has made clear, we will not hesitate to defend our personnel and hold responsible all those who harm Americans. That certainly goes for Iran and its proxies. And so we will continue to exercise our right to self-defense at a time in a place of our choosing. And we will continue to hold Iran and its affiliates accountable for their destabilizing actions.”
18. Wide shot, Security Council
19. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Koussay Aldahhak, Permanent Representative of Syria to the United Nations:
“Successive US administrations have misused their permanent membership of the Security Council and interfered thoroughly in the internal affairs of other countries including my country, Syria. They have formed military coalitions outside the umbrella of the United Nations and international relations legitimacy, perpetrating acts of aggression and occupation, exerting pressure and blackmail, collectively punishing and smothering peoples with unilateral coercive measures and inhumane immoral blockades. Such violations impose the law of force over the force of law.”
20. Wide shot, Security Council
21. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Koussay Aldahhak, Permanent Representative of Syria to the United Nations:
“Madam President, the Syrian Arab Republic completely rejects all the pretexts and lies that the US administration is trying to use to justify its aggression, which aims to protect its agents in the region, including Da’esh, Al-Nusrah Front, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, other terrorist entities and groups associated with them and the separatist militias, these agents would not have continued their crimes against the Syrian people without the multifaceted support provided by the United States and its allies to them.”
22. Wide shot, Security Council
23. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abbas Kadhom Obaid Al-Fatlawi, Deputy Permanent Representative of Iraq:
“President, Iraq strongly condemns the American attacks which targeted military positions in Iraq on the night of the third of February, which led to dozens of deaths and martyrs amongst personnels and civilians. This is a grave attack to official Iraqi security authorities, and this is a violation of Iraqi sovereignty as well as its security and a transgression of the laws that govern relations between States.”
24. Wide shot, Security Council
25. SOUNDBITE (English) Amir Saeid Iravani, Permanent Representative of Iran to the United Nations:
“Today in this chamber, the US and UK made another desperate attempt to distract attention away from the root cause of the current situation in the region by falsely putting the finger and blame on Iran. It is regretful that the United States, a permanent member of the Security Council has failed to fulfill its obligation under the UN Charter. The US expressed grave concern about the spillover of tension in the region while continuing to play a destabilizing role in the region.”
26. Wide shot, Security Council
27. SOUNDBITE (English) Amir Saeid Iravani, Permanent Representative of Iran to the United Nations:
“I would like to say that if Iran face any threat, attack or aggression affecting its security, national interest, or people, it will not hesitate to exercise its inherent rights under international law and the UN charter to respond firmly.”
28. Wide shot, Security Council
“The Middle East remains highly volatile,” the UN senior official for political affairs Rosemary DiCarlo said, reiterating the Secretary-General’s call on all parties to “step back from the brink and to consider the unbearable human and economic cost of a potential regional conflict.”
Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs Rosemary DiCarlo today (05 Feb) spoke at a Council meeting, requested by Russia, on the recent US airstrikes in Iraq and Syria.
DiCarlo said, “Long-term regional stability demands the implementation of a clear political roadmap in each of these situations.”
She added, “The Secretary-General continues his extensive outreach to all key stakeholders to urge all parties to take concrete measures to de-escalate tensions, and to work towards sustainable political solutions that aim to resolve, rather than merely manage, longstanding conflicts.”
The UN senior official appealed to the Council to “continue to actively engage all concerned parties to prevent further escalation and the worsening of tensions that undermine regional peace and security.”
Russian Ambassador Vasily Nebenzya told the Council, “we decisively condemned this new brazen act of aggression of the US against a sovereign State, creating a further risks and increasing the level of instability in a region that is already on fire.”
He continued, “It is clear that this incident which we are here discussing today, only increases regional tensions caused by unprecedented violence in Gaza, which for more than four months has been suffering from inhumane bloody operation of Israel who the US is covering through all their efforts as well as their satellites, including blocking efforts of the Security Council to impose an immediate humanitarian ceasefire.”
“It is clear that unilateral acts of violence by Washington and their allies only worsen the chaos in the region, nullifying international short efforts to reestablish peace in the Middle East, and to find a just solution to the Palestinian question,” the Russian Ambassador said,
He called on the international community to “unequivocally condemn these senseless acts of Washington and its allies in the Middle East, which violate the sovereignty of Iraq and the Syrian Arab Republic.”
US diplomat Robert Wood told Council members, “Russia called this meeting under the false pretense that the United States has no ground to respond to attacks that have killed US personnel.”
“It bears repeating, therefore, that the actions US forces took on February 2nd are necessary and proportionate, consistent with international law and an exercise of the United States inherent right to self-defense,” Ambassador Wood reiterated.
The US diplomat highlighted, “Let me be clear, United States does not desire more conflict in the region when we are actively working to contain and deescalate the conflict in Gaza and we are not seeking a direct conflict with Iran.”
“But we will continue to defend our personnel against unacceptable attacks, period,” Ambassador Wood added.
He called on members of the Council, “especially those with direct channels to Iran to press the Iran’s leaders to rein in their militias and stop these attacks,” adding that “they should also press the Syrian regime to stop giving Iran a platform to destabilize the region.”
“As President Biden has made clear, we will not hesitate to defend our personnel and hold responsible all those who harm Americans. That certainly goes for Iran and its proxies,” the US diplomat said.
He concluded, “we will continue to exercise our right to self-defense at a time in a place of our choosing. And we will continue to hold Iran and its affiliates accountable for their destabilizing actions.”
Syrian Ambassador Koussay Aldahhak said, “Successive US administrations have misused their permanent membership of the Security Council and interfered thoroughly in the internal affairs of other countries including my country, Syria.”
He added, “They have formed military coalitions outside the umbrella of the United Nations and international relations legitimacy, perpetrating acts of aggression and occupation, exerting pressure and blackmail, collectively punishing and smothering peoples with unilateral coercive measures and inhumane immoral blockades.”
“Such violations impose the law of force over the force of law,” the Syrian Ambassador added.
Ambassador Aldahhak reiterated that the Syrian Arab Republic “completely rejects all the pretexts and lies that the US administration is trying to use to justify its aggression, which aims to protect its agents in the region, including Da’esh, Al-Nusrah Front, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, other terrorist entities and groups associated with them and the separatist militias.”
He said, “these agents would not have continued their crimes against the Syrian people without the multifaceted support provided by the United States and its allies to them.”
Iraqi Ambassador Abbas Kadhom Obaid Al-Fatlawi “strongly” condemned “the American attacks which targeted military positions in Iraq on the night of the third of February, which led to dozens of deaths and martyrs amongst personnels and civilians.”
“This is a grave attack to official Iraqi security authorities, and this is a violation of Iraqi sovereignty as well as its security and a transgression of the laws that govern relations between States,” he continued.
Iranian Ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani also spoke at the Council.
He said, “Today in this chamber, the US and UK made another desperate attempt to distract attention away from the root cause of the current situation in the region by falsely putting the finger and blame on Iran.”
“It is regretful that the United States, a permanent member of the Security Council has failed to fulfill its obligation under the UN Charter,” Ambassador Iravani added.
The Iranian Ambassador said, “The US expressed grave concern about the spillover of tension in the region while continuing to play a destabilizing role in the region.”
He concluded, “if Iran face any threat, attack or aggression affecting its security, national interest, or people, it will not hesitate to exercise its inherent rights under international law and the UN charter to respond firmly.”
