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STORY: UN / LEBANON UNIFIL UPDATE
TRT: 00:50
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 09 MAY 2024, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
RECENT - NEW YORK CITY
1. Aerial shot, exterior United Nations Headquarters
09 MAY 2024, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, spokesperson Farhan Haq at the podium
3. Med shot, journalists
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“The daily exchanges of fire across the Blue Line are deeply concerning, profoundly impacting towns and villages on both sides. Many people have been displaced, injured, and killed, including today. The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) is working continuously to decrease tensions with hundreds of daily activities aimed at de-escalating situations and assisting local communities within its mandate. The ultimate solution can only be political and diplomatic. We urge all parties to reaffirm their commitment to the cessation of hostilities and to upholding their obligations under Resolution 1701.”
7. Wide shot, end of briefing
UN spokesperson Farhan Haq today (9 May) told journalists in New York that daily exchanges of fire across the Blue Line demarcation dividing Lebanon from Israel and the Golan Heights, “are deeply concerning, profoundly impacting towns and villages on both sides.”
Haq said, “many people have been displaced, injured, and killed, including today.”
He said the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) “is working continuously to decrease tensions with hundreds of daily activities aimed at de-escalating situations and assisting local communities within its mandate.”
The spokesperson urged all parties “to reaffirm their commitment to the cessation of hostilities and to upholding their obligations under Resolution 1701.”
This resolution, adopted in 2006, calls for the full cessation of hostilities, the deployment of Lebanese forces to Southern Lebanon, parallel withdrawal of Israeli forces behind the Blue Line, strengthening the UNIFIL to facilitate the entry of Lebanese Forces in the region and the establishment of a demilitarised zone between the Blue Line and the Litani River.
It also calls for UN Secretary-General to develop proposals to implement the relevant provisions of the Taif Accords as well as Security Council Resolutions 1559 (2004) and 1680 (2006) and imposes an arms embargo on Lebanon.
