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STORY: UN / BAN KI-MOON LIBYA
TRT: 1:39
SOURCE: UNTV
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LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 23 FEBRUARY 2011, UNITED NATIONS, NEW YORK CITY / RECENT
RECENT - UNITED NATIONS, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, UN headquarters
23 FEBRUARY 2011, UNITED NATIONS, NEW YORK CITY
2. Med shot, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arriving at media stakeout
3. Cutaway, journalists
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“In the Middle East today, we see people - especially young people - pushing the frontiers of freedom. Yesterday, the Security Council and the League of Arab States each sent strong and unequivocal messages: no violence and respect for human rights. The world has spoken with one voice: the Government of Libya must meet its responsibility to protect its people.”
5. Cutaway, journalists
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“The violence must stop. Attacks against civilians are a serious violation of international humanitarian and human rights law. Those responsible for brutally shedding the blood of innocents must be punished.”
7. Cutaway, journalists
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“The situation is developing rapidly, toward a very dangerous situation. Therefore we need to very carefully monitor the situation. I will continue to urge, in the strongest possible terms, first to stop violence, to protect human rights and the civilian population.”
9. Cutaway, journalists
10. Med shot, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon leaving media stakeout
12. Still photo, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on the phone with Secretary General of the League of Arab States Amre Moussa
RECENT - UNITED NATIONS, NEW YORK CITY
13. Wide shot, UN headquarters
United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon cut short a visit to Los Angeles to return to UN headquarters today (23 Feb) to address the crisis in Libya, calling for punishment of those using violence against civilians after a long phone call to President Muammar Al-Qadhafi.
Ban spent 40 minutes on the phone with the Libyan leader on Monday. According to media accounts, Qadhafi went on state TV yesterday to call on his supporters to fight those protesting against his four decades in power and today two pilots were reported to have crashed their warplane and parachuted to safety rather than execute orders to bomb the opposition-held city of Benghazi.
Ban applauded the Arab League’s decision to suspend Libya saying that both the League and the Security Council have “each sent strong and unequivocal messages: no violence and respect for human rights.”
He added that “the world has spoken with one voice: the Government of Libya must meet its responsibility to protect its people.”
Yesterday the Security Council issued a statement condemning the use of force, demanding an immediate end to the violence, and calling on the Government to address the legitimate demands of the population, through national dialogue in full respect for human rights.
Ban, who has spoken repeatedly with leaders of the region in the weeks since unrest first erupted in Tunisia in January, said that he will continue to call “in the strongest possible terms” for an end to the violence.
He added that he will be soon dispatching senior advisers to the region. Earlier today, he spoke the Secretary General of the Arab League Amre Moussa about the situation in Libya and the region.
Media reports say at least 300 people have been killed during the unrest that began over a week ago. There have also been reports of the use of military planes to attack protesters, the alleged involvement of foreign mercenaries in killing the protesters, and the arbitrary arrests of individuals including lawyers, human rights defenders and journalists.
According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), some 5,000 people have reportedly arrived at the Tunisian border and some 15,000 at the Egyptian border after fleeing the violence.
