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STORY: UN / UKRAINE
TRT: 01:58
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 20 MARCH 2025, NEW YORK CITY
FILE – NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, United Nations Headquarters exterior
20 MARCH 2025, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, ambassadors at stakeout podium
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Fu Cong, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, China:
“We are pleased to announce that we have just had a highly successful meeting of the Group of Friends for Peace. We discuss the latest developments of the conflict in Ukraine, as well as recent dynamics towards peace talks, and the prospect for achieving a lasting peace.”
FILE – NEW YORK CITY
4. Close up, camera
20 MARCH 2025, NEW YORK CITY
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Fu Cong, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, China:
“Recognizing that there can be no settlement by military means only, and that these military means deepen human suffering, from the very beginning, we have consistently advocated for an early peaceful resolution and the need to observe principles for de-escalation and the importance of non-expansion of the battlefield and the non-intensification of fighting.”
FILE – NEW YORK CITY
6. Close up, camera
20 MARCH 2025, NEW YORK CITY
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Sérgio França Danese, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Brazil:
“Recent developments suggest that the conflict might be approaching a turning point, with the focus shifting from the battlefield to the negotiating table. We welcome this potential shift and see it as an opportunity to generate new momentum toward ending the conflict. This could mark a critical step toward peace and pave the way for meaningful and sustained progress. We urge all parties and stakeholders to embrace this opportunity and engage constructively in peace talks. The shared goal must be to find a just and lasting solution, one that addresses mutual concerns of the parties to the conflict and leads to a peace agreement negotiated directly by and accepted to them.”
8. Pan right, ambassadors walk away
In a joint statement read today (20 Mar) by Ambassadors Fu Cong of China and Sérgio França Danese of Brazil, representatives from the Group of Friends for Peace on the Ukraine Crisis said “the conflict might be approaching a turning point,” and welcomed a “potential shift and see it as an opportunity to generate new momentum toward ending the conflict.”
Reading the first part of the statement, Cong said the Group of Friends for Peace had discussed “the latest developments of the conflict in Ukraine, as well as recent dynamics towards peace talks, and the prospect for achieving a lasting peace.”
He said, “recognizing that there can be no settlement by military means only, and that these military means deepen human suffering, from the very beginning, we have consistently advocated for an early peaceful resolution and the need to observe principles for de-escalation and the importance of non-expansion of the battlefield and the non-intensification of fighting.”
Reading the second part of the statement, França Danese said such a shift, “could mark a critical step toward peace and pave the way for meaningful and sustained progress.”
He urged all parties and stakeholders “to embrace this opportunity and engage constructively in peace talks,” with the goal of finding “a just and lasting solution, one that addresses mutual concerns of the parties to the conflict and leads to a peace agreement negotiated directly by and accepted to them.”
