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STORY: UN / UKRAINE SPAIN ALBARES
TRT: 01:28
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: SPANISH / NATS
DATELINE: 23 FEBRUARY 2024, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Tilt up, exterior UN headquarters
23 FEBRUARY 2024, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, press room
3. Wide shot, journalists
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jose Manuel Albares, Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, Spain:
“The international community strongly condemns what was a cruel attack - because its only result has been an enormous toll of pain, destruction and victims - and senseless, because ambition cannot come before the lives of millions of human beings.”
5. Med shot, journalists
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jose Manuel Albares, Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, Spain:
“The commemoration of this sad second anniversary of Russian aggression towards Ukraine also comes a few days after the death of Alexei Navalny. That is why we cannot waver in our commitment and our support for Ukraine. Its cause is that of the freedom of any country to decide; that of democracy in the face of totalitarianism; that of dialogue in the face of war; that of the future and peace in the face of the past and war.”
7. Med shot, journalists
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jose Manuel Albares, Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, Spain:
“The scientific police are doing their research and I have asked to be informed. Of course, any murder in Spain has consequences and depending on the details I am provided by those conducting the investigation, of course, the response will be commensurate with the acts that have been committed.”
9. Wide shot, end of presser
Spain’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jose Manuel Albares, today (23 Feb) told reporters in New York that two years after the launch of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the international community strongly condemns what was a “cruel” and “senseless” attack.
Cruel, Albares said, “because its only result has been an enormous toll of pain, destruction and victims.” and senseless, “because ambition cannot come before the lives of millions of human beings.”
Albares said, “the commemoration of this sad second anniversary of Russian aggression towards Ukraine also comes a few days after the death of Alexei Navalny. That is why we cannot waver in our commitment and our support for Ukraine. Its cause is that of the freedom of any country to decide; that of democracy in the face of totalitarianism; that of dialogue in the face of war; that of the future and peace in the face of the past and war.”
Asked about the death of former Russian air-force captain Maxim Kuzminov, who was shot dead earlier this month in Alicante, Spain, Albares said, “the scientific police are doing their research and I have asked to be informed. Of course, any murder in Spain has consequences and depending on the details I am provided by those conducting the investigation, of course, the response will be commensurate with the acts that have been committed.”
Kuzminov had defected to Ukraine last year, before moving to Spain.
Albares participated in today’s General Assembly High Level Plenary meeting on the situation in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.
