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STORY: RUSSIA / BAN BRAHIMI LAVROV WRAP
TRT: 2.36
SOURCE: UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 06 SEPTEMBER 2013, ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA
1. Various shots, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and delegation approaching and entering the Konstantinovsky Palace, G-20 summit venue
2.Med shot, Ban and Lakhdar Brahimi, Joint Special Representative of the United Nations and the League of Arab States for Syria talking
3. Wide shot, Ban enters bilats area of the summit
4. Various shots, Ban and British Prime Minister David Cameron
5. Wide shot, Ban leaves G-20 venue
7. Med shot, Ban holding talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel
8. Wide shot, Brahimi and Russian Affairs Monster Sergei Lavrovo leaving Ministry to meet press
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Lakhdar Brahimi, Joint Special Representative of the United Nations and the League of Arab States for Syria:
“On this issue of the alleged use of chemical weapons on the 21st of August the United Nations is waiting for the work of the investigation team that was there and visited and collected a lot of material and that material is being analysed and when this work is finished and it has to be completed according to scientific standards. As soon as it is done the secretary-General will communicate the results to the Security Council and the rest of the international community. Then we will call it whatever the results of the investigation say it should be called”
10. Cutaway, photographers
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Lakhdar Brahimi, Joint Special Representative of the United Nations and the League of Arab States for Syria:
“We’ve been asked from time to time what about the use of force by members of the international community and there we don’t, I think the Secretary-General or myself we don’t express personal opinion, we say what international law says, and the international law says that no country is allowed to take the law into their hands. They have to go through the Security Council.”
12. Cutaway, photographers
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Lakhdar Brahimi, Joint Special Representative of the United Nations and the League of Arab States for Syria:
“Geneva II is now in danger because of the event of the 121st of August and what may follow as a consequence. I have drawn the attention of the participants of this meeting today to the consequences, to the possible consequences.”
15. Wide shot, Ministry building
The United Nations (UN) Secretary-General today (6 September) in St. Petersburg, Russia attended a meeting organized by British Prime Minister David Cameron on the margins of the G20 summit to highlight the need for more funding for aid for the humanitarian crisis in Syria. He also held talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Ban was accompanied at most of his meetings by the Joint Special Representative for Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, who joined him in Russia to push for a political solution to the Syrian conflict.
Brahimi also attended a meeting initiated by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on the sidelines of the G20 summit, and later on they both spoke to reporters.
Talking about the biomedical and environmental samples taken by the UN chemical weapons inspection team from the alleged 21 August attack in the Ghouta area outside Damascus, Brahimi said that the samples were being analysed and he added that “As soon as it is done the Secretary-General will communicate the results to the Security Council and the rest of the international community. Then we will call it whatever the results of the investigation say it should be called.”
Brahimi also warned that no country was allowed to take the law into its own hands. He said, “International law says that no country is allowed to take the law into their hands; they have to go through the Security Council."
And on the possibility of a Geneva II meeting being conveyed he said “Geneva II is now in danger because of the event of the 21st of August and what may follow as a consequence.”
The goal of the Geneva II conference would to be to achieve a political solution to the conflict in Syria through a comprehensive agreement between the Government and the opposition for the full implementation of the Geneva communiqué of 30 June 2012.
On the margins the G20, Ban also met with French President Francois Hollande, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
