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STORY: UN / COUNTER-TERRORISM 1
TRT: 4.28
SOURCE: UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 19 SEPTEMBER 2011, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
2. Wide shot, podium
3. Cutaway, audience
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Effective counter-terrorism requires a combination of social, educational, economic and political tools that target those factors that make the terrorist option appear attractive. The Strategy also recognizes that human rights are an intrinsic part of the fight against terror, not an acceptable casualty of war.”
6. Med shot, Ban Ki-moon and Prince Saud Al-Faisal, Foreign Minister of Saudi Arabia photo-op
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“I am pleased to announce that the United Nations has signed an agreement with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on the creation of a United Nations Centre for Counter Terrorism. We are placing a growing emphasis on supporting regional and sub-regional efforts. We welcome the upcoming Global Counter-Terrorism Forum.”
8. Cutaway, delegates
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Marty Natalegawa, Minister of Foreign Afairs, Indonesia:
“Much more need to be done, the threat of terrorism is still mounting, terrorists can strike anywhere and anytime and the global nature of this challenge has not changed. Terrorist cells are interconnected, networked and trans-boundary in nature. They’re also adaptable, at the same time autonomous and indeed techno-minded. Efforts to combat terrorism are growing more complex and more difficult and the entire international architecture must address the evolving threat of terrorism.”
10. Cutaway, delegates
11. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Trinidad Jimenez, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Spain:
“We shouldn’t forget that in terrorism ideological factors of organized crime, of non resolved conflicts, of exclusion and social marginalization or of lack of peaceful integration of local communities usually come together. Because of that the response besides the clearly needed police and judicial activities should also frequently include a development component as a preventive measure.”
12. Cutaway, Eric Holder giving statement
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Eric Holder, Attorney General, United States:
“Let me be very clear the United States is firmly committed to the rule of law approach enshrined in this framework and to strengthening the capacity of civilian courts around the world which have time and again shown their effectiveness at brining terrorists to justice. In strengthening this international framework and in winning this fight, every country represented here has an essential role to play as a partner, as a convener and as a direct provider of assistance, intelligence and expertise to all those who seek to prevent terrorism from occurring and just as importantly endeavour to eliminate its causes as well.”
14. Cutaway, delegates
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Mohamed Kamel Amr, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Egypt:
“Terrorism cannot be defeated by military means or force alone but by using all the means at our disposal in the removal of the root causes of terrorism in addition to the necessary legislative and security measures. Above all the government of Egypt strongly condemns any attempt at linking the crime of terrorism to any religion, culture or ethnic group; we believe that irresponsible statements that attempt to associate the crime of terrorism with any religion are in it selves a clear incitement to terrorism.”
16. Cutaway, delegates
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Therese May, MP Home Secretary, United Kingdom:
“The ideology of terrorism is more persistent that anyone group. So we must as an international community, do more to defeat that ideology. We must all come together to say that the ideology of terrorism is wrong and in particular that the West is not at war with Islam, that Muslims and non Muslims can and will live together in harmony. Only then will we further discredit a damaged but resilient ideology, and only then will we defeat the terrorist threat.”
18. Wide shot, meeting
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today (19 Sept) kicked off a counter-terrorism forum with a call for strengthening the collective resolve to defeat a menace that affects all nations and to build a safer world for all.
Ban highlighted the resolve shown by countries five years ago in adopting the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy, while also stressing the need to reinvigorate efforts to conclude the Comprehensive Convention against Terrorism.
The strategy, he noted, recognizes that terrorism cannot be combated only through security-related or law enforcement means. “Effective counter-terrorism requires a combination of social, educational, economic and political tools that target those factors that make the terrorist option appear attractive,” he said.
The Secretary-General also announced that the world body had signed an agreement with Saudi Arabia on the creation of a UN Centre for Counter Terrorism (UNCCT).
Saudi Arabia will contribute $10 million over the next three years to set up the centre, which will be based in New York and support the implementation of the strategy, as well as foster international cooperation, strengthen individual countries’ capacity-building efforts and build up a database of best practices to counter terrorism.
Ban stressed that the organization was “placing a growing emphasis on supporting regional and sub-regional efforts,” and he also welcomed U.S. President Barack Obama’s Global Counter-Terrorism Forum to be launched on Thursday (22 September).
Indonesia’s Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa stressed that much more needed to be done because the threat of terrorism was still mounting.
“Terrorists can strike anywhere and anytime and the global nature of this challenge has not changed,” he told delegates, adding that efforts to combat terrorism were growing more complex and more difficult.
United States (US) Attorney General Eric Holder said that the US is firmly committed to the rule of law by strengthening the capacity of civilian courts around the world which had, “time and again shown their effectiveness at bringing terrorists to justice.”
Holder noted that in strengthening that international framework and in winning that fight, “every country represented in the meeting had an essential role to play as a partner, as a convener and as a direct provider of assistance, intelligence and expertise for those seeking to prevent terrorism from occurring.”
Egypt’s Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr said that terrorism could not be defeated by military force alone and that all means should be “at our disposal in the removal of the root causes of terrorism in addition to the necessary legislative and security measures.”
He also said that the government of Egypt strongly condemned any attempt of linking terrorism to any religion, culture or ethnic group.
United Kingdom’s Home Secretary Therese May said that the ideology of terrorism was more persistent that anyone group and that the international community must do more to defeat that ideology.
