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STORY: UN / ISRAEL SHALOM
TRT: 2.11
SOURCE: UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 14 FEBRUARY 2012, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1.Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
14 FEBRUARY 2012, NEW YORK CITY
2. Zoom in, Shalom walks up to the stakeout position
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
3. Close up, reporter’s laptop
14 FEBRUARY 2012, NEW YORK CITY
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Silvan Shalom, Vice Prime Minister and Minister for Regional Development of Israel:
“The Secretary-General told me that he was shocked by the attack that was carried out yesterday in New Delhi against Israeli diplomats and about that effort of those terrorists to carry out an attack in Georgia as well.”
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
5. Close up, reporters’ notepads
14 FEBRUARY 2012, NEW YORK CITY
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Silvan Shalom, Vice Prime Minister and Minister for Regional Development of Israel:
“None of us can sleep at night by knowing that the United Nations cannot stop President Assad from carrying out the massacre against his own people by firing buildings full of innocent people.”
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7. Close up, reporter’s notepad
14 FEBRUARY 2012, NEW YORK CITY
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Silvan Shalom, Vice Prime Minister and Minister for Regional Development of Israel:
“They would like to revive the Persian Empire. They would like to change the types of the regimes in the Middle East. They would like to take control of the oil fields within the Middle East and to have a nuclear bomb. By that they believe that they will be once again a major superpower in the world.”
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
9. Close up, reporter’s laptop
14 FEBRUARY 2012, NEW YORK CITY
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Silvan Shalom, Vice Prime Minister and Minister for Regional Development of Israel:
“How can we have a dialogue with a government that half of it is asking to destroy us? That its Prime Minister is going to Teheran and then, after hugging and embracing with Ahmadinejad is saying that it will never talk to Israel, it will never accept our existence and once that Israel has no right to exist.”
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
11. Close up, reporter’s notepad
14 FEBRUARY 2012, NEW YORK CITY
12. Zoom out, Shalom walks away from the stakeout position
13. Various shots, Shalom meeting with the Secretary-General
A top Israeli official said today (14 February) that Iran was behind the recent terrorist attacks against Israeli diplomats in India, Georgia and Azerbaijan, as well as a grenade explosion by an Iranian man today in Bangkok.
After a private meeting with Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Silvan Shalom, Vice Prime Minister and Minister for Regional Development of Israel, told reporters that the Secretary-General had told him that he was “shocked by the attack that was carried out yesterday in New Delhi against Israeli diplomats and about that effort of those terrorists to carry out an attack in Georgia as well.”
Iran has denied any connection to these attacks and has accused Israel of carrying out assassination plots against Iranian nuclear scientists.
Shalom said that he had also discussed the Syrian situation with the Secretary-General. He said that “none of us can sleep at night by knowing that the United Nations cannot stop President Assad from carrying out the massacre against his own people by firing buildings full of innocent people.”
On Iran’s nuclear programme, the Israeli official said that Iran’s ultimate goal is “to revive the Persian Empire” by changing “the types of the regimes in the Middle East”, taking control of the oil fields within the Middle East “and to have a nuclear bomb”.
He said that the Iranian Government believes that by doing this “they will be once again a major superpower in the world.”
Shalom also criticised the recent unity agreement signed last week between the Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah, in Doha, Qatar.
He asked how can Israel have a dialogue “with a government that half of it is asking to destroy us?”
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon yesterday stressed that Israel and the Palestinians must cease provocations and take concrete steps to restore trust and create a conducive environment for direct talks, pledging to do everything in his power to help the parties advance the peace process.
