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STORY: GA / DEBATE 2
TRT: 03:07
SOURCE: UNIFEED-UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ARABIC / ENGLISH / FRENCH / NATS
DATELINE: 24 SEPTEMBER 2014, NEW YORK CITY / RECENT
1. Wide shot, exterior, United Nations Headquarters
2. Wide shot, General Assembly chamber
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani, Amir of Qatar:
“In this context, the international community needs to stand firmly beside brotherly Iraq to confront terrorism, end its ordeal. Preserving its sovereignty, territorial integrity and diversity of sects can only be achieved by defusing sectarian conflict and achieving Iraqi reconciliation that lays the foundations for a society free of sectarian and ethnic conflicts, with the participation of all political forces without exclusion of any parts.”
4. Wide shot, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi at the podium
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abdel Fattah Al Sisi, President of Egypt:
“These principles are not up for negotiation, otherwise the basis of a comprehensive peace in the region would erode, and the values of justice and humanity would vanish.”
6. Wide shot, Jordan King Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein at the podium
7. SOUNDBITE (English), Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein, King of Jordan:
“The terrorists and criminals targeting Syria, Iraq and other countries today are extreme reflections of a great global threat. Our international community needs a collective strategy to contain and defeat these groups. My country is at the forefront of these efforts.”
8. Med shot, Jordan delegation
9. SOUNDBITE (English), Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein, King of Jordan:
“The heavy flow of Syrian refugees continues. My country is sheltering nearly 1.4 million Syrians. We are now the world’s third largest host fop refugees. This is placing an overwhelmingly burden on Jordan’s people, infrastructure and already limited resources. The refugee crisis is a global responsibility and demands a global solution. To date, the response has not kept pace with the real needs.”
10. Wide shot, French President François Hollande at the podium
11. SOUNDBITE (French) François Hollande, President of France:
“You will understand that today I am speaking before you with a particularly high level of emotion because one of my compatriots have just been the subject of a cowardly assassination in Algeria, assassination by a terrorist group linked to the Islamic State.”
12. Med shot, delegates
13. SOUNDBITE (French) François Hollande, President of France:
France will never give in to blackmail, to pressure, to barbaric acts, quite to the contrary. France knows what is expected. It knows that it carries these values, it knows that it has a role to play and France will never renounce this role.”
14. Wide shot, General Assembly chamber
Speaking at the General Assembly at United Nations (UN) Headquarters, the leaders of Qatar, Egypt, Jordan and France have called on the international community to stand fight the global threat posed by terrorist groups in Iraq and Syria.
Qatari Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani called on the leaders of 193 nations at the opening of the Assembly’s 69th annual General Debate.to “stand firmly” to “confront terrorism.”
He said that “in this context, the international community needs to stand firmly beside brotherly Iraq to confront terrorism, end its ordeal. Preserving its sovereignty, territorial integrity and diversity of sects can only be achieved by defusing sectarian conflict and achieving Iraqi reconciliation that lays the foundations for a society free of sectarian and ethnic conflicts, with the participation of all political forces without exclusion of any parts.”
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi turn to neighbor Palestine to highlight that it remains a “top priority” for Egypt.
He reminded that Palestinians still aspire to establish their independent state on the basis of the 1967 borders, on the basis of the principles upon which the peace process was established since the nineteen seventies, following an Egyptian initiative.
He said that these principles “are not up for negotiation, otherwise the basis of a comprehensive peace in the region would erode, and the values of justice and humanity would vanish.”
Back on terrorism in the Middle East, King Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein of Jordan stressed that the security of every nations will be shaped by the “fate” of the Middle East.
He stressed that “the terrorists and criminals targeting Syria, Iraq and other countries today are extreme reflections of a great global threat.”
He pointed at the need for a “collective strategy to contain and defeat these groups” and highlighted that Jordan is “at the forefront of these efforts.”
King Al Hussein noted the large number of Syrian refugees Jordan is getting as a consequence of the conflict engulfing Syria and Iraq and stressed the burden it is placing on his people.
He said that Jordan is sheltering “nearly 1.4 million Syrians. We are now the world’s third largest host fop refugees. This is placing an overwhelmingly burden on Jordan’s people, infrastructure and already limited resources. The refugee crisis is a global responsibility and demands a global solution. To date, the response has not kept pace with the real needs.”
French President François Hollande addressed the audience with a “high level of emotion” soon after the confirmation of the beheading of a French citizen abducted in Algeria on Sunday by a group linked to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)
He said “you will understand that today I am speaking before you with a particularly high level of emotion because one of my compatriots have just been the subject of a cowardly assassination in Algeria, assassination by a terrorist group linked to the Islamic State.”
Putting emphasis on the pressure his country got to step out of the US-led coalition against ISIL in Syria and Iraq, Hollande said that “France will never give in to blackmail to pressure to barbaric acts, quite to the contrary. France knows what is expected. It knows that it carries these values, it knows that it has a role to play and France will never renounce this role.”
