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STORY: UN / PALESTINE TWO STATE SOLUTION
TRT: 03:42
SOURCE: UNIFEED
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LANGUAGE: FRENCH / ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 23 MAY 2025, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, United Nations Headquarters
23 MAY 2025, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Trusteeship Council
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Philémon Yang, President General Assembly:
“The International Conference, to be held in June, is a crucial opportunity that we must seize to chart an irreversible path towards the implementation of the two-State solution. It is imperative that this Conference succeeds.”
4. Wide shot, Trusteeship Council
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Philémon Yang, President General Assembly:
“The horrors we have witnessed in Gaza for over nineteen months should spur us to urgent action to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The devastating cycles of death, destruction, and displacement cannot be allowed to continue. This conflict cannot be resolved through permanent war, nor through endless occupation or annexation. It will only end when Israelis and Palestinians can live side by side in their own sovereign, independent States, in peace, security, and dignity.”
6. Wide shot, Trusteeship Council
7. SOUNDBITE (French) Anne-Claire Legendre, Advisor to the President of the Republic for Middle East and North Africa, France:
“The June Conference must mark a transformative milestone for the effective implementation of the two-State solution. We must move from words to deeds. We must move from the end of the war in Gaza to an end of the conflict. Faced with the facts on the ground, the prospects of a Palestinian state must be maintained. Irreversible steps and concrete measures for the implementation thereof are necessary. This is the thrust behind the June Conference. We will be working with everybody who wishes to be involved, so as to craft a roadmap for peace and security based on a two state solution; Two states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security within secure and recognized borders.”
8. Wide shot, Trusteeship Council
9. SOUNDBITE (French) Anne-Claire Legendre, Advisor to the President of the Republic for Middle East and North Africa, France:
“France stands determined to build, together with you, a Middle East that's a stable, safer, more integrated, and that respects the rights of all people in the region. Without exception. We are determined to advance this objective for the benefit of Israelis and Palestinians. And we hope to make headway towards this goal as part of this work together with you.”
10. Wide shot, Trusteeship Council
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Manal Radwan, Counsellor, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Saudi Arabia:
“We meet at a moment of historic urgency. Gaza is enduring unimaginable suffering. Civilians continue to pay the price of a war that must end immediately. The escalation in the West Bank is equally alarming. Despair grows deeper by the day.”
12. Wide shot, Trusteeship Council
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Manal Radwan, Counsellor, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Saudi Arabia:
“The occupation must end. For peace and prosperity to prevail in the region. Peace is not abstract or distant. Peace is necessary. Peace is overdue. This Conference must be the beginning of the end of the conflict.”
14. Wide shot, Trusteeship Council
Speaking at a preparatory meeting, ahead of the June High-level Conference on the implementation of the two-State Solution, the President of the General Assembly, Philémon Yang, today (23 May) said the Conference presents “a crucial opportunity that we must seize” and stressed that it is “imperative that this Conference succeeds.”
Yang said, “the horrors we have witnessed in Gaza for over nineteen months should spur us to urgent action to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The devastating cycles of death, destruction, and displacement cannot be allowed to continue.”
He said the conflict “cannot be resolved through permanent war, nor through endless occupation or annexation. It will only end when Israelis and Palestinians can live side by side in their own sovereign, independent States, in peace, security, and dignity.”
The Co-chair of the preparatory meeting, Anne-Claire Legendre said the June Conference “must mark a transformative milestone for the effective implementation of the two-State solution.”
Legendre, who is the Advisor to the French President for Middle East and North Africa said, “we must move from words to deeds. We must move from the end of the war in Gaza to an end of the conflict. Faced with the facts on the ground, the prospects of a Palestinian state must be maintained. Irreversible steps and concrete measures for the implementation thereof are necessary.”
She said, “we will be working with everybody who wishes to be involved, so as to craft a roadmap for peace and security based on a two state solution; Two states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security within secure and recognized borders.”
Legendre said, “France stands determined to build, together with you, a Middle East that's a stable, safer, more integrated, and that respects the rights of all people in the region. Without exception. We are determined to advance this objective for the benefit of Israelis and Palestinians. And we hope to make headway towards this goal as part of this work together with you.”
For her part, the other Co-chair, Manal Radwan, who is a Counsellor at Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said, “we meet at a moment of historic urgency. Gaza is enduring unimaginable suffering. Civilians continue to pay the price of a war that must end immediately. The escalation in the West Bank is equally alarming. Despair grows deeper by the day.”
Radwan said, “the occupation must end. For peace and prosperity to prevail in the region. Peace is not abstract or distant. Peace is necessary. Peace is overdue. This Conference must be the beginning of the end of the conflict.”
The High-Level International Conference for the Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine and the Implementation of the Two-State Solution is scheduled to take place from June 2 to 4, 2025, at the UN headquarters. The Conference aims to advance the implementation of UN resolutions related to Palestine and emphasizes the two-state solution based on pre-1967 borders.
