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DATELINE: 19 SEPTEMBER 2024, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Aerial shot, exterior, United Nations Headquarters
19 SEPTEMBER 2024, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric at the podium
3. Wide shot, journalists
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“The Secretary-General and senior staff and especially colleagues on the ground have been following the situation very closely in terms of the developments in south Lebanon and in northern Israel. Special Coordinator for Lebanon, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert has been in constant contact with all concerned actors to urge for restraint and calm as well as to support diplomatic efforts to end this cycle of violence urgently. We continue to urge the parties to recommit to the full implementation of Security Council resolution 1701 and return to a cessation of hostilities to restore stability. The leadership of the UN peacekeeping mission, UNIFIL, has also been in touch with parties on both sides of the Blue Line.”
5. Wide shot, Dujarric at the podium
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Let's be honest, do we have a magic wand to stop the conflict? The Secretary-General doesn't, and I think he's been very clear on that. What we have are mechanisms, whether it's through a Special Coordinator, whether it's through UNIFIL, whether it's the Special Coordinator in Jerusalem. And I will remind you, but as you of course well know, that these mechanisms and these mandates were created by the Security Council, were created by Member States. So, while I'll go back to my last answer, it is important that Member States also exercise a positive influence on moving towards de-escalation. So, you know, when we talk about Lebanon, so the tens of thousands of Lebanese who've had to flee their homes in the south can return home and the tens of thousands of Israelis who've had to flee their homes can also return.”
7. Wide shot, end of briefing
Responding to the escalating crisis along the Lebanon-Israel border, Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric today (19 Sep) urged the parties “to recommit to the full implementation of Security Council resolution 1701 and return to a cessation of hostilities to restore stability.”
Dujarric said Secretary-General António Guterres and senior staff and “have been following the situation very closely in terms of the developments in south Lebanon and in northern Israel,” and Special Coordinator for Lebanon, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert “has been in constant contact with all concerned actors to urge for restraint and calm as well as to support diplomatic efforts to end this cycle of violence urgently.”
The leadership of the UN peacekeeping mission (UNIFIL), he said, “has also been in touch with parties on both sides of the Blue Line.”
Asked about how the UN or UNIFIL can stop a “technological war against Lebanon?” the spokesperson said, “let's be honest, do we have a magic wand to stop the conflict? The Secretary-General doesn't, and I think he's been very clear on that. What we have are mechanisms, whether it's through a Special Coordinator, whether it's through UNIFIL, whether it's the Special Coordinator in Jerusalem. And I will remind you, but as you of course well know, that these mechanisms and these mandates were created by the Security Council, were created by Member States. So, while I'll go back to my last answer, it is important that Member States also exercise a positive influence on moving towards de-escalation. So, you know, when we talk about Lebanon, so the tens of thousands of Lebanese who've had to flee their homes in the south can return home and the tens of thousands of Israelis who've had to flee their homes can also return.”
