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STORY: UN / WILLIAM HAGUE
TRT: 2.32
SOURCE: UNTV
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 24 JUNE 2013, NEW YORK
RECENT, 2013, UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS, NEW YUORK
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations Headquarters
24 JUNE 2013, NEW YORK
2. Wide shot, UK Foreign Secretary William Hague approaches microphone
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3. Cutaway, journalist taking notes
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) William Hague, Foreign Secretary, United Kingdom:
“We believe a political solution is necessary as the G8 Nations endorsed in Northern Ireland last week, but we believe we won’t get a political solution if the democratic moderate opposition is eliminated by force. The help that we are giving is non-lethal, it is equipment that saves lives. But we agreed among the 11 countries meeting in Doha on Saturday that we would give varying and different kinds of help between us and according to the wishes of each country and the capabilities of each country. So we have taken no decision about arms.”
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5. Cutaway, journalist taking notes
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) William Hague, Foreign Secretary, United Kingdom:
“For us the purpose of a second Conference in Geneva is to work out how to implement what was agreed last year, almost exactly a year ago this week in Geneva, the creation of a transitional government with full executive authority drawn from regime and opposition by mutual consent and that has to be the, that is, if you like, the only agenda item for a Geneva conference, another Geneva conference.”
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7. Cutaway, journalist taking notes
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8. SOUNDBITE (English) William Hague, Foreign Secretary, United Kingdom:
“The United Kingdoms position on Iran’s support for the regime inside Syria and indeed including military support and through its proxies, Hezbollah is well known and I’ve expressed it in our Parliament, absolutely we condemn that. That is foreign intervention in Syria that is making the situation worse and leading to the death of thousands of people and of course it is increasing the risks to the stability of Lebanon.”
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9. Cutaway, journalist taking notes
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10. SOUNDBITE (English) William Hague, Foreign Secretary, United Kingdom:
“We do believe there is very strong evidence of the use chemical weapons, including Sarin gas by the regime. We haven’t seen evidence of the use of chemical weapons by the opposition. But of course the answer to such controversy is for the UN team who are charged with working out what has happened in Syria on this to be given access by the regime to all areas that could have been affected by chemical weapons and I call again upon them to do so at the G8, those 8 leading nations in the world called for access including Russia calling for access to determine the truth to international satisfaction but we are certainly persuaded by what we have seen that there has been use of chemical weapons by the regime on a number of occasions and you heard what the White House has said about that.”
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11. Cutaway, journalist taking notes
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12. Wide shot, William Hague leaves microphone behind
The United kingdoms (UK) Foreign Secretary said today that his country believed a political solution was necessary to the conflict in Syria, but he said “we believe we won’t get a political solution if the democratic moderate opposition is eliminated by force”.
Briefing journalists today (24 June0 at the United Nations before chairing a Security Council meeting on sexual violence in conflicts William Hague said that the assistance that the United Kingdom was giving the Syrian opposition was “non-lethal”, and he added “it is equipment that saves lives.”
Hague also said that the 11 countries meeting in Doha on Saturday (22 June) agreed that they would give “varying and different kinds of help between us and according to the wishes of each country and the capabilities of each country. So we have taken no decision about arms.”
Responding to whether there were chances of a second meeting in Geneva Hague said that the purpose of a second Conference in Geneva was to work out how to implement what was agreed last year, “the creation of a transitional government with full executive authority drawn from regime and opposition by mutual consent.”
Concerning the UK’s position regarding Iran’s support to President Assad’s regime, Hague said that the UK’s position on Iran’s support for Syria’s regime was well known and that he had expressed it in the British Parliament, “absolutely we condemn that.”
And on the issue of chemical weapons he expressed the UK’s belief that “there is very strong evidence of the use chemical weapons, including Sarin gas by the regime”, while there was no evidence of the use of such weapons by the opposition.
Hague added that the answer to such controversy was now for the UN team charged with working out what happened in Syria, but he said that the regime needed to give access to all areas that could have been affected by chemical weapons.
