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STORY: UN / IRAQ
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SOURCE: UNTV
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/ NATS
DATELINE: 25 NOVEMBER 2013, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1.Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
25 NOVEMBER 2013, NEW YORK CITY
2.Wide shot, Security Council
3.Med shot, delegates
4.SOUNDBITE (English) Nickolay Mladenov, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Iraq:
“Terrorism remains a significant threat to Iraq. Armed groups seek to foment a vicious cycle of violence reminiscent of the dark days of 2006 to 2008. Against the wishes of ordinary Iraqis, these groups are attempting to impose their will in parts of the country. They seek to create a political vacuum by assassinating political leaders in governorates such as Ninewa, Anbar, and Salah al Dine. They target Shiite pilgrims and Sunni mosques, in order to incite communal conflict. The terrorists want to make parts of Iraq ungovernable.”
5.Med shot, delegates
6.SOUNDBITE (English) Nickolay Mladenov, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Iraq:
“Between July and October of this year, the United nations estimates that a total of just under 9,000 civilians and members of Iraqi Security Forces have been killed, with thousands more injured.”
7.Med shot, delegates
8.SOUNDBITE (English) Nickolay Mladenov, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Iraq:
“The ongoing conflict in Syria has added a regional dimension to sectarian tensions and is enabling groups such as Al-Qaida to forge links with similar factions fighting across the border. Today, more than ever, Iraq’s challenges cannot be consider in isolation from the broader risks that face the region. Resolving the Syrian crisis through an inclusive national project and adopting a regional strategy against all forms of religious or sectarian extremism are vital to bringing stability to Iraq.”
9.Med shot, delegates
10.SOUNDBITE (English) Mohamed Ali Alhakim, Permanent Representative of Iraq to the United Nations:
“The continuation of the conflict in Syria and the presence of nearly 35,000 armed foreigners on Syrian territory from dozens of countries, battling alongside the parties to the conflict and transforming it into a sectarian conflict, is spreading day by day into the region. This has had a significant impact on increasing the frequency of terrorist acts in Iraq.”
11. Med shot, delegates
12. Wide shot, Security Council
13. Wide shot, Mladenov walks up to the Security Council stakeout
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
14.Close up, reporter’s notepad
25 NOVEMBER 2013, NEW YORK CITY
15.SOUNDBITE (English) Nickolay Mladenov, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Iraq:
“I think both the agreement to have the Geneva II conference as well as the initial agreement with Iran, are positive first steps that will have certainly a positive impact on the ground in Iraq. They will lessen the regional tensions that currently exist, and I hope will also create an impetus to have a more broad regional approach to the challenges of sectarianism and terrorism that not only Irak but other parts of the region face as well. Thank you”
The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Iraq, Nickolay Mladenov, today (25 November) told the Security Council that terrorism “remains a significant threat to Iraq.”
Mladenov said that armed groups “seek to foment a vicious cycle of violence reminiscent of the dark days of 2006 to 2008 “ and to create “a political vacuum” and “make parts of Iraq ungovernable.”
The Special Representative noted that between July and October of this year, “a total of just under 9,000 civilians and members of Iraqi Security Forces have been killed, with thousands more injured.”
He said the ongoing conflict in Syria “has added a regional dimension to sectarian tensions and is enabling groups such as Al-Qaida to forge links with similar factions fighting across the border.”
“Today, more than ever” he added, “Iraq’s challenges cannot be consider in isolation from the broader risks that face the region.”
Also addressing the Council, Iraq’s Ambassador, Mohamed Ali Alhakim said “the continuation of the conflict in Syria and the presence of nearly 35,000 armed foreigners on Syrian territory from dozens of countries, battling alongside the parties to the conflict and transforming it into a sectarian conflict, is spreading day by day into the region.”
Alhakim added that “this has had a significant impact on increasing the frequency of terrorist acts in Iraq.”
The Security Council issued a statement condemning "in the strongest terms the recent spate of terrorist attacks in Iraq, in which scores of civilians lost their lives and hundreds more were wounded."
Outside the Council, Mladenov told reporters that “both the agreement to have the Geneva II conference as well as the initial agreement with Iran, are positive first steps that will have certainly a positive impact on the ground in Iraq.”
He said both agreements “will lessen the regional tensions that currently exist” and may create “an impetus to have a more broad regional approach to the challenges of sectarianism and terrorism that not only Iraq but other parts of the region face as well.”
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Saturday welcomed an interim agreement reached regarding Iran's nuclear programme and today announced that he would convene in Geneva on 22 January the long-sought international conference on Syria bringing together the Government and the opposition to a negotiating table for the first time since the conflict started in March 2011.
