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STORY: GA / BAN
TRT: 3.12
SOURCE: UNTV
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / FRENCH / NATS
DATELINE: 17 JANUARY 2014, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
17 JANUARY 2014, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Trusteeship Council
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“Over the years, we have proven the value of this great institution. The United Nations is a unique platform that helps us all rise above human failings, that encourages wise and visionary leadership, and that enables us to take advantage of the opportunities provided by a new global landscape. But I remain gravely concerned at the immoral and irresponsible actions of too many individuals with influence and responsibility.”
4. Zoom out, delegates
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“The crisis in South Sudan has reached tragic proportions. The United Nations has opened our peacekeeping bases to people in imminent danger, providing protection and shelter to tens of thousands of civilians. Many of them are alive today only because they made it in time to the UNMISSS camps. We are doing our best with inadequate facilities. Conditions are extremely difficult. The situation is volatile.”
6. Pan right, delegates
7. SOUNDBITE (French) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“I also remain deeply concerned about the violence and pervasive fear in the Central African Republic, especially reports of atrocities against civilians. I appreciate the initiative and contribution of the ECCAS and France. The international community must redouble efforts to help the people of CAR to restore peace and stability as soon as possible.”
8. Med shot, delegates
9. SOUNDBITE (French) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“We are intensifying efforts to bring the parties together for the International Conference on Syria in Switzerland next week. In Montreux, we will press them to launch a political process, move to a transitional governing body with full executive powers, and stop the violence.”
10. Pan right, delegates
11. SOUNDBITE (French) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“The coming year will be critical for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. I strongly support the current negotiations and urge the parties to make the courageous commitments needed to end the occupation and achieve a two-State solution. The situation in Gaza remains a serious concern, with great potential for devastating escalation. I call on the authorities in Gaza, Israel and Egypt to do everything possible to prevent this, and to alleviate the dire humanitarian situation.”
12. Zoom in, Trusteeship Council
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today (17 January) called for action to address underlying threats in world hotspots, promote development and to protect the planet, in his first address of the year to the entire United Nations membership, in which he also expressed grave concern at the ‘immoral and irresponsible actions’ of some global leaders.
Briefing on the UN challenges for 2014, in his address to the 193-member General Assembly, Ban decried the continued violence in Syria, South Sudan, the Central African Republic (CAR) and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), among others.
In South Sudan, where the crisis has reached “tragic proportions,” Ban reiterated his call on the parties to end the violence through political dialogue and reasserted his support for mediation efforts led by the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) and the African Union.
Turning to CAR, Ban urged the international community to redouble efforts to help the people restore peace and stability “as soon as possible.”
He called for generous contributions at a pledging conference hosted on Monday by the European Union in Brussels.
Just back from a trip to the Middle East, where he chaired a humanitarian donors’ conference for Syria in Kuwait, which generated some $2.4 billion in pledges, and where he visited a Syrian refugee camp in northern Iraq, Ban highlighted the humanitarian impact of the conflict.
He said that efforts are intensifying to bring the parties together for the International Conference on Syria in Switzerland next week, adding that in Montreux, “we will press them to launch a political process, move to a transitional governing body with full executive powers, and stop the violence.”
He also stressed the importance of the work underway by the Joint Mission of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and the UN on meeting a tight deadline to rid Syria of chemical weapons.
In the Middle East, Ban said the coming year will be “critical” for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
He expressed strong support for the current negotiations and urged the parties to “make the courageous commitment needed to end the occupation and achieve a two-State solution.”
Given the gravity of the situation in the Gaza Strip, he also called on authorities there, as well as those in Israel and Egypt, to do everything possible to ameliorate the dire humanitarian situation.
Ban said the international community must also focus greater attention on the inter-related threats of organized crime, terrorism, piracy, extremism, and trafficking in drugs, people and arms. This includes continuing to strive towards achieving a nuclear-weapon-free world, which could be furthered this year at the Nuclear Security Summit at The Hague.
The international community, he said, also continues its focus on human rights and the rule of law, particularly given the positive response to the Rights Up Front initiative, designed to promote early action to prevent atrocities and other grave violations.
