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STORY: UN / US IRAN RHETORIC REAX
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LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 07 APRIL 2025, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior, United Nations Headquarters
07 APRIL 2025, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric at the press conference podium
3. Med shot, journalist
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“The Secretary-General is very troubled by the statements that we've heard, yesterday and again this morning. Statements suggesting that an entire people or an entire civilization may be made to bear the consequences of political and military decisions. There is no military objective that justifies the wholesale destruction of a society's infrastructure or the deliberate infliction of suffering on civilian populations. The Secretary-General reiterates that conflicts end when leaders choose dialogue over destruction, that choices still exist, and that those choices must be made now. He calls for stepped up diplomatic efforts, to find a peaceful way forward to the conflict in The Middle East.”
5. Wide shot, Dujarric at the podium
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“We were deeply troubled by the statements, to say the least. We have repeatedly said here that destruction of civilian infrastructure, targeting of civilians, the threats that we are all, violations of international law, international humanitarian law. What is a crime, what is not a crime will have to be determined once something takes place, and we very much hope that none of the threats that were verbalized will actually be implemented.”
7. Wide shot, end of presser
A United Nations spokesperson today (7 Apr) told journalists in New York that Secretary-General António Guterres “is very troubled” by United States President Donald Trump’s statements “suggesting that an entire people or an entire civilization may be made to bear the consequences of political and military decisions.”
Responding to a journalist’s question, the spokesperson for the Secretary-General, Stéphane Dujarric, said, “there is no military objective that justifies the wholesale destruction of a society's infrastructure or the deliberate infliction of suffering on civilian populations.”
Quoting the Secretary-General, Dujarric said, “conflicts end when leaders choose dialogue over destruction.”
Asked whether these threats constitute war crimes, he said, “we were deeply troubled” by president Trump’s statements, and added, “what is a crime, what is not a crime will have to be determined once something takes place, and we very much hope that none of the threats that were verbalized will actually be implemented.”
According to press reports, president Trump had said, “a whole civilization will die tonight,” if his demands are not met.
