25 Jan 2012

UN / BAN

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today said he was encouraged by the Arab League’s initiative to seek a political solution to the crisis in Syria and welcomed their decision to seek the support of the Security Council. UNTV

Posted at: January 25, 2012 5:56 pm

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STORY: UN / BAN
TRT: 2.39
SOURCE: UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 25 JANUARY 2011, NEW YORK

SHOTLIST:

RECENT 2011, UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS

1. Wide shot, exterior ne United Nations Headquarters
2. Wide shot, Ban takes his seat
3. Cutaway, journalists
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
"I encourage the transitional authorities to pursue the peaceful and early handover of power to civilian government, to uphold human rights, to release political detainees and accelerate the pace of reform."
5. Cutaway, journalists
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
"I am encouraged by the way the League of Arab States is going to resolve this issue through political solutions and also try to support the United Nations Security Council's efforts and I will very closely coordinate and evaluate all the situations regarding the situation in Syria."
7. Cutaway, journalists
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
"I am concerned by the report, the most recent report of the International Atomic Energy Agency indicating that their program has something to be related with military dimension and that they have to prove that their nuclear program is for peaceful purposes and they should fully cooperate with the IAEA and I have been urging the member of E3+3 and Iran to engage in dialogue. There is no alternatives to the peaceful resolution of this."
9. Cutaway, journalists
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
"I believe that we have to seize this opportunity but helping them to establish the rule of law based on inclusivity of dialogues and reconciliations that should be very much important. I am concerned by what we have been experiencing in Libya, internal fighting and the current government is trying to establish rile of law through reconciliation and also managing this proliferation of small weapons which have been prevalent in this society win close coordination with UNSMIL."
11. Cutaway, journalists
12. Wide shot, Ban leaves conference room behind

STORYLINE:

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon held his first press conference of the year at headquarters Wednesday as his second term as chief of the organization.

Ban noted that today (25 Jan) marked the one-year anniversary of the uprising in Egypt that led to the removal of the regime of Hosni Mubarak.

He congratulated the people of Egypt on their peaceful transition to democracy on  yesterday's (24 Jan) announcement of a partial lifting of the state of emergency in the country.

He encouraged the transitional authorities to pursue the peaceful and early handover of power to civilian government, to uphold human rights, to release political detainees and to accelerate the pace of reform.

Responding to whether he was planning to go to Damascus to prevent the risk of a civil war, Ban said that he was encouraged by the way the League of Arab States was going to resolve the Syrian issue through political solutions while also supporting the Security Council's efforts.

On Iran's ambitions for peaceful use of nuclear energy, Ban expressed his concern over the most recent report of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) indicating the existence of a military dimension to Iran's plan.

Ban stressed that Iran had to prove that their nuclear program was for peaceful purposes and they should fully cooperate with the IAEA.

Asked about how seriously he took the in-fighting in Libya, Ban said that he was concerned and that the current government was trying to establish the rule of law through reconciliation and by also managing the proliferation of small weapons -which had been prevalent in that society- in close coordination with UNSMIL.