18 Feb 2011

UN / GREECE

Greek Foreign Minister Dimitris Droutsas meets with Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon at UN headquarters to discuss the Cyprus issue ahead of Ban’s submission of his report to the UN Security Council later this month. UNTV

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STORY: UN / GREECE
TRT: 1:34
SOURCE: UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 18 FEBRUARY 2011, NEW YORK CITY

SHOTLIST:

RECENT 2011, UNITED NATIONS NORTH LAWN BUILDING, NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, United Nations North Lawn Building

18 FEBRUARY 2011, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, Ban Ki-moon and Dimitris Droutsas photo-op
3. Wide shot, round table meeting
4. Wide shot, Dimitris Droutsas approaches microphone
5. Cutaway, journalists
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Dimitris Droutsas, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Greece:
"I reiterated once again to the Secretary-General the willingness and the political will of the Greek government to see a settlement the sooner the better and our invitation goes to our neighbours and to the political leadership in our neighbouring country to take the necessary right decisions that will guarantee stability, but also prosperous and a European future for the country and the people of the country but also of the region itself."
7. Cutaway, journalists
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Dimitris Droutsas, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Greece:
"I am not happy to repeat this but this is for us a reality the Turkish Cypriot community and the leadership of the Turkish-Cypriot community is not responding in the same forthcoming and constructive manner to the proposals put forward by President Christofias."
9. Cutaway, cameraman
10. Wide shot, Dimitris Droutsas leaves journalists behind

STORYLINE:

Foreign Minister Dimitris Droutsas of Greece met with Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon at UN headquarters today to discuss a variety of issues including: the latest developments in North Africa and the Middle East, the name dispute with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) and the Cyprus issue ahead of Ban's submission of his report to the UN Security Council later this month.

Later, he told journalists that on the issue of the name dispute with FYROM, he reiterated once again to the Secretary-General the willingness and the political will of the Greek government to see a settlement "the sooner the better."

On the latest talks in Geneva regarding Cyprus, he said that he was not happy that the Turkish Cypriot community and its leadership were not responding in the same forthcoming and constructive manner to the proposals put forward by President Christofias.

Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot leaders have met 90 times under UN sponsorship since 2008, apart from additional meetings between their representatives. The UN has maintained a peacekeeping mission on the island since the 1964 violence.