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STORY: UN / PEACEKEEPERS PROTECTION RESOLUTION
TRT: 01:32
SOURCE: UNIFEED
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LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 23 JUNE 2026, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior, United Nations Headquarters
23 JUNE 2026, NEW YORK CITY
2. Various shots, Security Council
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Asim Iftikhar Ahmad, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Pakistan:
“When peacekeepers are killed or injured as a result of attacks while performing mandates authorised by this Council, then the Council must remain seized of what happens next. Whether facts are established, whether investigations are being pursued, whether perpetrators have been identified and whether justice is done. Impunity for such crimes cannot be allowed to fester. There must be accountability.”
4. Pan left, Council vote
5. Med shot, Danish Ambassador Christina Markus Lassen addressing Council
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Christina Markus Lassen, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Denmark:
“To the troop and police contributing countries, many of whom have co-sponsored today's resolution, who deploy their most precious resource in support of peace, it sends a message of reassurance that the intent of any crime against the peacekeepers, this Council and the United Nations systems is ready, willing and able to step in. And to the perpetrators of any crimes, wherever and whoever they are, it sends a firm message that the international community is watching, that crimes will not go unpunished; that accountability and justice will be pursued and will be upheld.”
7. Wide shot, end of briefing
The Security Council today (23 Jun) unanimously adopted a draft resolution on accountability for crimes committed against UN peacekeepers.
The resolution was co-drafted by Denmark and Pakistan. Speaking before the vote, Pakistan’s Ambassador Asim Iftikhar Ahmad said, “when peacekeepers are killed or injured as a result of attacks while performing mandates authorised by this Council, then the Council must remain seized of what happens next.”
Ahmad said, “impunity for such crimes cannot be allowed to fester. There must be accountability.”
Speaking after the vote, Danish Ambassador Christina Markus Lassen told the Council that to the troop and police contributing countries, the adoption of the resolution “sends a message of reassurance that the intent of any crime against the peacekeepers, this Council and the United Nations systems is ready, willing and able to step in.”
And to the perpetrators of crimes against peacekeepers, Lassen said, “it sends a firm message that the international community is watching, that crimes will not go unpunished; that accountability and justice will be pursued and will be upheld.”
Since 1948, 1,095 UN peacekeepers have been killed as a result of malicious acts, including 359 since 2013. Several thousand more were injured.
