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STORY: UN / UKRAINE
TRT: 04:44
SOURCE: UNIFEED
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / FRENCH / RUSSIAN / CHINESE / NATS
DATELINE: 23 FEBRUARY 2024, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – NEW YORK CITY
1. Med shot, exterior, United Nations Headquarters
23 FEBRUARY 2024, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Two years on – and a decade since Russia’s attempted illegal annexation of Ukraine’s Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol – the war in Ukraine remains an open wound at the heart of Europe.”
4. Med shot, UN Secretary-General, delegates
5. SOUNDBITE (French) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Scorning the Charter has been the problem. Honoring it is the solution. That means honoring the sovereignty, independence, unity, and territorial integrity of Ukraine, within its internationally recognized borders. It is time to recommit to the Charter and renew respect for international law. That is the path to peace and security – in Ukraine and around the world.”
6. Med shot, delegates
7. SOUNDBITE (English) David Cameron, Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, the United Kingdom:
“The only people behaving like Nazis are the Putin regime: invading another country and hoping the world will be weak and let you get away with it. That is the simple truth: Putin believes he can take territories, re-draw borders, exercise force to build his empire.”
8. Med shot, delegates
9. SOUNDBITE (English) David Cameron, Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, the United Kingdom:
“We all must stand up to Putin. Not just out of sympathy for Ukraine. But because his actions in Ukraine are so dangerous for everyone else. If we give into the idea that one country can invade another with impunity, then we will be left in a dreadful situation where any country could face a similar fate.”
10. Med shot, UN Secretary-General, delegates
11. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Vasily Nebenzya, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Russian Federation:
“Any conflict that ends sooner or later. There's no doubt that the Ukrainian conflict will end as well. There's no doubt that the longer it lasts due to the sustained support by the West, the less advantageous will be the peace conditions for Ukraine.”
12. Med shot, Russian Permanent Representative, delegates
13. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Zhang Jun, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, China:
“It must be pointed out that the situation that Europe is facing today is closely related to the repeated eastward expansion of NATO since the end of the cold war. We encouraging NATO to do some soul searching, come out of the cage of cold war mentality and refrain from acting as an agent of troubles instigating block confrontation. We urge the head of NATO to look at the world through an objective lens, stop saber rattling and do that which is genuinely conducive to world peace.”
14. Med shot, Ukraine’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, delegates
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Dmytro Kuleba, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ukraine:
“We continue to insist that Russia has no legal right to be present at this table and a future reform should correct this historic mistake that led to deadly consequences.”
16. Wide shot, Security Council
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Dmytro Kuleba, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ukraine:
“Ukraine wants peace more than any other nation. However, we are not going to allow Russia to kill us freely on the road to peace nor we will ever accept any offer to surrender or to concede our land and freedom under the guise of peace. Not only because it will make futile the ultimate price we are paying now, for 2 years in a row, but also because we will all be doomed to pay a much higher price in the future.”
18. Pan right, Security Council
19. Pan left, UK’s Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs walking to stakeout
20. SOUNDBITE (English) David Cameron, Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, the United Kingdom:
“There was no October the seventh in Russia. There was no excuse for Russia to launch this invasion whereas on the other hand, Israel does have a right to self-defense. What happened on October the seventh when they lost almost 1,400 people from their own country in what was the biggest attack on Jewish people since the Holocaust, the biggest pogroms since the Holocaust, is a totally different situation. So, I completely reject this idea that somehow, we're guilty of double standards. The two situations are not the same.”
21. Pan left, delegates walking to stakeout
22. SOUNDBITE (English) Dmytro Kuleba, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ukraine:
“We also condemn continued military support for Russia's war of aggression including by Iran, Belarus, and DPRK. We urge all countries not to provide weapons and to restrict exports of all items critical to the military, to Russia for its war of aggression against Ukraine.”
23. Wide shot, delegates at stakeout
The UN Secretary General, António Guterres, said, "Two years on – and a decade since Russia’s attempted illegal annexation of Ukraine’s Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol – the war in Ukraine remains an open wound at the heart of Europe."
Addressing the Security Council today (23 Feb) Guterres also said, “Scorning the Charter has been the problem. Honoring it is the solution. That means honoring the sovereignty, independence, unity, and territorial integrity of Ukraine, within its internationally recognized borders. It is time to recommit to the Charter and renew respect for international law. That is the path to peace and security – in Ukraine and around the world.”
David Cameron, UK’s Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, said, “The only people behaving like Nazis are the Putin regime: invading another country and hoping the world will be weak and let you get away with it. That is the simple truth: Putin believes he can take territories, re-draw borders, exercise force to build his empire.”
He also said, “We all must stand up to Putin. Not just out of sympathy for Ukraine. But because his actions in Ukraine are so dangerous for everyone else. If we give into the idea that one country can invade another with impunity, then we will be left in a dreadful situation where any country could face a similar fate.”
Vasily Nebenzya, Russian Permanent Representative to the United Nations, stated, “Any conflict that ends sooner or later. There's no doubt that the Ukrainian conflict will end as well. There's no doubt that the longer it lasts due to the sustained support by the West, the less advantageous will be the peace conditions for Ukraine.”
Zhang Jun, Permanent Representative of China to the United Nations, said, “It must be pointed out that the situation that Europe is facing today is closely related to the repeated eastward expansion of NATO since the end of the cold war. We encourage NATO to do some soul searching, come out of the cage of cold war mentality and refrain from acting as an agent of troubles instigating block confrontation. We urge the head of NATO to look at the world through an objective lens, stop saber rattling and do that which is genuinely conducive to world peace.”
Dmytro Kuleba, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, said, “We continue to insist that Russia has no legal right to be present at this table and a future reform should correct this historic mistake that led to deadly consequences.”
He also said, “Ukraine wants peace more than any other nation. However, we are not going to allow Russia to kill us freely on the road to peace nor we will ever accept any offer to surrender or to concede our land and freedom under the guise of peace. Not only because it will make futile the ultimate price we are paying now, for 2 years in a row, but also because we will all be doomed to pay a much higher price in the future.”
Answering a question earlier this morning, David Cameron, UK’s Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, said, “There was no October the seventh in Russia. There was no excuse for Russia to launch this invasion whereas on the other hand, Israel does have a right to self-defense. What happened on October the seventh when they lost almost 1,400 people from their own country in what was the biggest attack on Jewish people since the Holocaust, the biggest pogroms since the Holocaust, is a totally different situation. So, I completely reject this idea that somehow, we're guilty of double standards. The two situations are not the same.”
Also earlier this morning, Dmytro Kuleba, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, delivered to the press a joint statement on the situation in Ukraine on behalf of the governments of Ukraine, Albania, Andorra, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Japan, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Marshall Islands, Federal States of Micronesia, Monaco, Montenegro, the Netherlands, New Zealand, North Macedonia, Norway, Palau, Paraguay, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Korea, Republic of Moldova, Romania, San Marino, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Uruguay and the European Union.
He said, “We also condemn continued military support for Russia's war of aggression including by Iran, Belarus, and DPRK. We urge all countries not to provide weapons and to restrict exports of all items critical to the military, to Russia for its war of aggression against Ukraine.”
