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STORY: UNGA79 / LEBANON
TRT: 02:43
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ARABIC / NATS
DATELINE: 26 SEPTEMBER 2024, NEW YORK CITY
1. Tilt down, United Nations Headquarters
2. Wide shot, Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdallah Bouhabib walks up to the General Assembly rostrum
3. Med shot, Lebanese delegation
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abdallah Bouhabib, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Emigrants, Lebanon:
“Lebanon is currently enduring a crisis which is threatening its very existence. The future of our people and our prosperity are imperilled. This is a situation that requires international intervention on an urgent basis before the situation spirals out of control, with a domino effect, making this crisis impossible to contain.”
5. Wide shot, Bouhabib at the rostrum
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abdallah Bouhabib, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Emigrants, Lebanon:
“We welcome the declaration delivered yesterday by the United States and by France and supported by a number of friendly states offering the possibility of long-term calm.”
7. Med shot, United States delegation
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abdallah Bouhabib, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Emigrants, Lebanon:
“What we are currently experiencing in Lebanon is a consequence of the absence of a lasting, sustainable solution. It is not the cause of an absence of a sustainable solution. The cause is the occupation. And we wish to reiterate this explicitly. The cause is the occupation, to claim anything else would be a loss of time. So long as the occupation persists, there will be instability and there will be war.”
9. Wide shot, Lebanese delegation
10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abdallah Bouhabib, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Emigrants, Lebanon:
“Has Israel not had enough of the endless war since 1948? when will it be time for Israel to give a real opportunity for peace? Will Israel not embrace the path of peace? When will this happen? Instead of using the language of fire and steel, Lebanon and Arab countries have clearly, without any ambiguity, categorically embraced peace through the Arab Peace Initiative, which was the fruit of the Beirut Arab summit in 2002 with the adoption by Arab States of the two-state solution, through the demand of Arab estates for the implementation United Nations resolutions, which unfortunately have remained dead letter.”
11. Wide shot, Lebanese delegation applause
Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdallah Bouhabib today (26 Sep) told the General Assembly’s General Debate that “Lebanon is currently enduring a crisis which is threatening its very existence,” and said, “so long as the occupation persists, there will be instability and there will be war.”
Bouhabib said, “the future of our people and our prosperity are imperilled. This is a situation that requires international intervention on an urgent basis before the situation spirals out of control, with a domino effect, making this crisis impossible to contain.”
He welcomed the declaration by the United States and France “offering the possibility of long-term calm.”
The Lebanese diplomat said, “what we are currently experiencing in Lebanon is a consequence of the absence of a lasting, sustainable solution” and stressed that “the cause is the occupation. And we wish to reiterate this explicitly. The cause is the occupation, to claim anything else would be a loss of time.”
Bouhabib asked, “has Israel not had enough of the endless war since 1948? when will it be time for Israel to give a real opportunity for peace? Will Israel not embrace the path of peace? When will this happen?”
He said, “instead of using the language of fire and steel, Lebanon and Arab countries have clearly, without any ambiguity, categorically embraced peace through the Arab Peace Initiative, which was the fruit of the Beirut Arab summit in 2002 with the adoption by Arab States of the two-state solution, through the demand of Arab estates for the implementation United Nations resolutions, which unfortunately have remained dead letter.”
