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STORY: UN / PALESTINIAN PEOPLE SOLIDARITY DAY
TRT: 04:45
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / FRENCH / ARABIC / NATS
DATELINE: 25 NOVEMBER 2023, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior UN Headquarters
11 MAY 2023, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, ECOSOC Chamber
3. Wide shot, dais
4. SOUNDBITE (French) Cheikh Niang, Chair, Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP):
“We hope that this resolution and the implementation of all relevant United Nations resolutions, will provide a credible pathway to the long overdue realisation of Palestinian self-determination and the independence of the State of Palestine. It is also essential that the right of return of refugees be guaranteed. The Committee and Member States will ensure that the political process, as laid out in the New York Declaration, will not be forgotten, but instead will be the framework for the way forward.”
5. Wide shot, ECOSOC Chamber
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Annalena Baerbock, President, General Assembly, United Nations:
“Self-determination, the right to live in its own state, is not a privilege to be earned. It's a right to be upheld. There's simply no other option than to deliver on this right for the Palestinian people. As we have seen over and over again, especially after two years of war in Gaza with tens of thousands of people killed, millions displaced, and over 80 percent of buildings damaged or destroyed following the atrocities of Hamas on October 7th, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict cannot be resolved through permanent war, illegal occupation, forced displacement or terror.”
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8. SOUNDBITE (English) Annalena Baerbock, President, General Assembly, United Nations:
“As underlined by the vast majority of member states in the New York Declaration in September and following the endorsement by the Security Council of the Comprehensive Plan to end the conflict in Gaza. The next steps are clear; the ceasefire agreement must be implemented in all its phases, leading to a permanent end of hostilities, including a political plan; Hamas laying down its weapons; Israel's army to withdraw and full; end of settlement and demolition in the West Bank, unifying West Bank and Gaza.”
9. Wide shot, ECOSOC Chamber
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Courtenay Rattray, Chef de Cabinet of the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Hope can become reality, hope that children in Palestine and Israel will one day wake to a world without fear. Hope that families across the Middle East will live in dignity, not despair. Hope that two peoples, bound by history, geography and humanity, will live side by side in peace. On this International Day of Solidarity, let us turn that hope into action.”
11. Wide shot, ECOSOC Chamber
12. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Riyad Mansour, Permanent Observer to the United Nations, Palestine:
“This day comes as our people continue to face the effects of the genocidal war in the Gaza Strip and the ongoing violations in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, in light of the continuation of the occupation and its policies that are based on settlement expansion and annexation, and in light of the settlement terrorism to which our people are subjected under the protection of the occupation army and the resulting serious human suffering and grave violations of human rights and international law.”
13. Wide shot, ECOSOC Chamber
14. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Riyad Mansour, Permanent Observer to the United Nations, Palestine:
“We call on the states that have not yet recognised the State of Palestine. To take this courageous step. Which is in line with the principles of international law. And we recall that we have recognised the State of Israel since 1993.”
15. Wide shot, ECOSOC Chamber
16. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Riyad Mansour, Permanent Observer to the United Nations, Palestine:
“We reiterate our welcome of President Trump's peace plan, which was adopted by the United Nations Security Council and Resolution 2803, stressing the need for a full Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and moving towards reconstruction, and having the State of Palestine assume its full administrative and security responsibilities in the Gaza Strip, and ensuring that all institutions and bodies in the Gaza Strip are linked to the Palestinian Authority and state institutions, including crossings, and implementing the vision of one state, one government, one law and one weapon.”
17. Wide shot, ECOSOC Chamber, end of meeting
Marking the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, Palestine’s Ambassador Riyad Mansour today (25 Nov) called on states that have not yet recognised the State of Palestine “to take this courageous step,” and recalled that Palestinians “have recognised the State of Israel since 1993.”
Opening a special meeting in observance of the Day, the Chair of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP), Cheikh Niang, expressed hope that the recent adoption by the Security Council of a 20-point resolution in support peace plan for Gaza “will provide a credible pathway to the long overdue realisation of Palestinian self-determination and the independence of the State of Palestine.”
Niang said it was “essential that the right of return of refugees be guaranteed” and that the political process, “as laid out in the New York Declaration, will not be forgotten, but instead will be the framework for the way forward.”
The President of the General Assembly, Annalena Baerbock, for her part said, “self-determination, the right to live in its own state, is not a privilege to be earned. It's a right to be upheld.”
Baerbock said, “as we have seen over and over again, especially after two years of war in Gaza with tens of thousands of people killed, millions displaced, and over 80 percent of buildings damaged or destroyed following the atrocities of Hamas on October 7th, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict cannot be resolved through permanent war, illegal occupation, forced displacement or terror.”
She said, “the next steps are clear; the ceasefire agreement must be implemented in all its phases, leading to a permanent end of hostilities, including a political plan; Hamas laying down its weapons; Israel's army to withdraw and full; end of settlement and demolition in the West Bank, unifying West Bank and Gaza.”
Speaking on behalf of Secretary-General António Guterres, his Chef de Cabinet, Courtenay Rattray, said, “hope can become reality, hope that children in Palestine and Israel will one day wake to a world without fear. Hope that families across the Middle East will live in dignity, not despair. Hope that two peoples, bound by history, geography and humanity, will live side by side in peace.”
Mansour told the meeting that “this day comes as our people continue to face the effects of the genocidal war in the Gaza Strip and the ongoing violations in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, in light of the continuation of the occupation and its policies that are based on settlement expansion and annexation, and in light of the settlement terrorism to which our people are subjected under the protection of the occupation army and the resulting serious human suffering and grave violations of human rights and international law.”
The Palestinian Ambassador welcomed United States’ President Donald Trump's peace plan, “stressing the need for a full Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and moving towards reconstruction, and having the State of Palestine assume its full administrative and security responsibilities in the Gaza Strip, and ensuring that all institutions and bodies in the Gaza Strip are linked to the Palestinian Authority and state institutions, including crossings, and implementing the vision of one state, one government, one law and one weapon.”
The president of the Security Council did not address the meeting as it was customary as the Council could not reach consensus on a statement.
