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STORY: UN / LIBYA BAN
TRT: 3.33
SOURCE: UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 22 AUGUST 2011, NEW YORK CITY
RECENT 2011, UNITED NATIONS NORTH LAWN BUILDING, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations North Lawn Building
22 AUGUST 2011, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Ban Ki-moon approaches microphone
3. Cutaway, journalist taking notes
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“It is crucial now for the conflict to end with no further loss of life and retribution. I welcome the assurances given by the Chairman of the National Transitional Council Mr. Mustafa Abdul Jallil that extreme care will be taken to protect people and public institutions, and to maintain law and order. I call on Colonel Qadhafi’s forces to seize violence immediately and make way for a smooth transition.”
5. Cutaway, journalist taking notes
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“The United Nations stands ready to extend all possible assistance to the Libyan people. For the past several months Ian Martin has been working to ensure that the United Nations is ready to respond to requests Libya may make for post conflict assistance. The United Nations is now prepared to assist in all vital areas, including security and rule of law; social economic recovery, constitution making and electoral process; human rights and transitional justice and coordination of support from Libya’ neighbours and international community. It will be crucial for the Security Council to be as responsive to post conflict planning needs as it has been throughout the crisis.”
7. Cutaway, journalist taking notes
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“The ICC has indicted Colonel Qadhafi for the violations and crimes against humanity. Therefore it is up to the ICC, and the international community has a duty, all the Member States of the United Nations have a duty, obligations, to fully comply with the decisions of the ICC.”
9. Cutaway, journalist taking notes
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“We’ll have to see how NATO will assess the situation and NATO has been instrumental in implementing Security Council resolution 1970 and 1973, and I recognize their efforts to avoid civilian casualties in the course of their military operations. But this is up to NATO, based on the assessment of the situation.”
11. Cutaway, journalist taking notes
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“It is troubling that he has not kept his word. Many world leaders have been speaking to him to halt immediately military operations that are killing his own people, and he assured me [he would] do that and military operations have already stopped. Now he has seen and he has heard all these serious and urgent calls to him, and I sincerely hope that he heeds the international community’s appeal and call.”
13. Cutaway, journalists taking notes
14. Zoon out, Ban leaves microphone behind
With signs that the conflict that has raged in Libya for more than six months may soon end, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today appealed for a smooth and peaceful transition and pledged the assistance of the United Nations (UN) for the people of the North African nation.
The regime of Colonel Muammar al-Qadhafi is reported to be on the brink of collapse as rebels who have been seeking his ouster gained control of parts of the capital, Tripoli, and two of the Libyan leader’s sons were arrested.
Ban told reporters at UN Headquarters in New York that it was “crucial now for the conflict to end with no further loss of life and retribution.”
He welcomed the assurances given by the Chairman of the National Transitional Council (NTC) Mustafa Abdul Jallil that extreme care would be taken to protect people and public institutions, and to maintain law and order.
He also called on Colonel Qadhafi’s forces “to cease violence immediately, and make way for a smooth transition.”
While noting that he had been in touch with the representatives of the African Union, the League of Arab States and the European Union as well as other world leaders,
Ban emphasized that the UN stood “ready to extend all possible assistance to the Libyan people,” adding that the world body is ready to assist in areas such as security and the rule of law, social and economic recovery, constitution-making, human rights and transitional justice.
In June the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for Mr. Qadhafi, one of his sons, Saif al-Islam Qadhafi, and the head of the Libya’s intelligence forces, Abdullah Al Sanousi, for crimes against humanity allegedly committed during the conflict.
Ban said that the ICC had indicted Colonel Qadhafi for the violations and crimes against humanity and that the ICC, the international community has and all the Member States of the United Nations have a duty, obligations, to fully comply with the decisions of the ICC.”
Asked to comment on the assurances Ban had received last week from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad that attacks on civilian had stopped, Ban said, “it is troubling that he has not kept his word.”
He also said that many world leaders had been speaking to Assad to stop military operations that were killing his own people, “and he assured me [he would] do that and military operations have already stopped. Now he has seen and he has heard all these serious and urgent calls to him, and I sincerely hope that he heeds the international community’s appeal and call.”
Earlier today in Geneva the United Nations Human Rights Council met in special session to debate the urgent dispatch of a commission to Syria to investigate possible crimes against humanity in the Government’s “brutal” crackdown on largely peaceful protesters seeking its ouster.
