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In its final briefing to the Security Council, the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Nickolay Mladenov urged Council members to “persevere in our efforts to prevent violent escalation and encourage leaders on both sides to takes steps toward enabling a return to negotiations, not a retrenchment of the conflict.” UNIFEED
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STORY: UN / MIDDLE EAST
TRT: 02:39
SOURCE: UNIFEED
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LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 21 DECEMBER 2020, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
SHOTLIST:
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior UN Headquarters
21 DECEMBER 2020, NEW YORK CITY
2. Multiple screens
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Nickolay Mladenov, Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process:
“Daily violence has continued throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory; settlement expansion and the demolition of Palestinian-owned structures continue unabated, raising tensions on the ground and further undermining the viability of a two-State solution; intra-Palestinian divisions remain unresolved; a humanitarian, economic and health crisis in Gaza has grown increasingly dire amidst debilitating closures, political division and a militant activity. It is in this context that we must persevere in our efforts to prevent violent escalation and encourage leaders on both sides to takes steps toward enabling a return to negotiations, not a retrenchment of the conflict.”
4. Multiple screens
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Nickolay Mladenov, Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process:
“Over the course of the past five years, I have met almost no Palestinian who doesn’t believe that negotiations are only a façade for the loss of more land. Neither have I met an Israeli who does not believe that every round of negotiations would lead to more violence and terror. You know the realities of the conflict only too well; our monthly Security Council briefings serve as a testament to the situation on the ground. As I depart from this office, I remain firmly convinced that the world cannot leave the situation unattended.”
6. Multiple screens
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Nickolay Mladenov, Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process:
“This conflict is not just a conflict over land, for both peoples have the right to call Israel and Palestine their home. It is not only a conflict over history, personal or collective. It is a conflict over the very right of two nations to coexist.”
8. Multiple screens
9. Wide shot, Ambassador Jerry Matjila walks up to podium
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Jerry Matthews Matjila, Permanent Representative of South Africa to the United Nations:
“The Council members had no objection to his appointment and reassignment, but that’s the place of the Secretary-General to announce. However, he did say himself he wished his successor well and he named his successor. So, I think Mladenov knows more than I know with the successor. But we know that he is going to be given a new assignment, and we in the A3 + 1 had no objection to his appointment to that assignment.”
11. Zoom out, Matjila walks away
STORYLINE:
In its final briefing to the Security Council, the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Nickolay Mladenov today (21 Dec) urged Council members to “persevere in our efforts to prevent violent escalation and encourage leaders on both sides to takes steps toward enabling a return to negotiations, not a retrenchment of the conflict.”
Mladenov said, “daily violence has continued throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory; settlement expansion and the demolition of Palestinian-owned structures continue unabated, raising tensions on the ground and further undermining the viability of a two-State solution; intra-Palestinian divisions remain unresolved; a humanitarian, economic and health crisis in Gaza has grown increasingly dire amidst debilitating closures, political division and a militant activity.”
The departing Special Coordinator said that over the past five years, he has met “almost no Palestinian who doesn’t believe that negotiations are only a façade for the loss of more land. Neither have I met an Israeli who does not believe that every round of negotiations would lead to more violence and terror.”
He said, “as I depart from this office, I remain firmly convinced that the world cannot leave the situation unattended.”
Mladenov said, “this conflict is not just a conflict over land, for both peoples have the right to call Israel and Palestine their home. It is not only a conflict over history, personal or collective. It is a conflict over the very right of two nations to coexist.”
Responding to a journalist’s question outside the Council, South African Ambassador Jerry Matthews Matjila said Council members “had no objection” to Mladenov’s “appointment and reassignment.”
Matjila said, “Mladenov knows more than I know with the successor. But we know that he is going to be given a new assignment, and we in the A3 + 1 had no objection to his appointment to that assignment.”
The Africa 3 + 1 is composed of Niger, South Africa and Tunisia, plus Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
TRT: 02:39
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 21 DECEMBER 2020, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
SHOTLIST:
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior UN Headquarters
21 DECEMBER 2020, NEW YORK CITY
2. Multiple screens
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Nickolay Mladenov, Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process:
“Daily violence has continued throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory; settlement expansion and the demolition of Palestinian-owned structures continue unabated, raising tensions on the ground and further undermining the viability of a two-State solution; intra-Palestinian divisions remain unresolved; a humanitarian, economic and health crisis in Gaza has grown increasingly dire amidst debilitating closures, political division and a militant activity. It is in this context that we must persevere in our efforts to prevent violent escalation and encourage leaders on both sides to takes steps toward enabling a return to negotiations, not a retrenchment of the conflict.”
4. Multiple screens
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Nickolay Mladenov, Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process:
“Over the course of the past five years, I have met almost no Palestinian who doesn’t believe that negotiations are only a façade for the loss of more land. Neither have I met an Israeli who does not believe that every round of negotiations would lead to more violence and terror. You know the realities of the conflict only too well; our monthly Security Council briefings serve as a testament to the situation on the ground. As I depart from this office, I remain firmly convinced that the world cannot leave the situation unattended.”
6. Multiple screens
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Nickolay Mladenov, Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process:
“This conflict is not just a conflict over land, for both peoples have the right to call Israel and Palestine their home. It is not only a conflict over history, personal or collective. It is a conflict over the very right of two nations to coexist.”
8. Multiple screens
9. Wide shot, Ambassador Jerry Matjila walks up to podium
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Jerry Matthews Matjila, Permanent Representative of South Africa to the United Nations:
“The Council members had no objection to his appointment and reassignment, but that’s the place of the Secretary-General to announce. However, he did say himself he wished his successor well and he named his successor. So, I think Mladenov knows more than I know with the successor. But we know that he is going to be given a new assignment, and we in the A3 + 1 had no objection to his appointment to that assignment.”
11. Zoom out, Matjila walks away
STORYLINE:
In its final briefing to the Security Council, the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Nickolay Mladenov today (21 Dec) urged Council members to “persevere in our efforts to prevent violent escalation and encourage leaders on both sides to takes steps toward enabling a return to negotiations, not a retrenchment of the conflict.”
Mladenov said, “daily violence has continued throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory; settlement expansion and the demolition of Palestinian-owned structures continue unabated, raising tensions on the ground and further undermining the viability of a two-State solution; intra-Palestinian divisions remain unresolved; a humanitarian, economic and health crisis in Gaza has grown increasingly dire amidst debilitating closures, political division and a militant activity.”
The departing Special Coordinator said that over the past five years, he has met “almost no Palestinian who doesn’t believe that negotiations are only a façade for the loss of more land. Neither have I met an Israeli who does not believe that every round of negotiations would lead to more violence and terror.”
He said, “as I depart from this office, I remain firmly convinced that the world cannot leave the situation unattended.”
Mladenov said, “this conflict is not just a conflict over land, for both peoples have the right to call Israel and Palestine their home. It is not only a conflict over history, personal or collective. It is a conflict over the very right of two nations to coexist.”
Responding to a journalist’s question outside the Council, South African Ambassador Jerry Matthews Matjila said Council members “had no objection” to Mladenov’s “appointment and reassignment.”
Matjila said, “Mladenov knows more than I know with the successor. But we know that he is going to be given a new assignment, and we in the A3 + 1 had no objection to his appointment to that assignment.”
The Africa 3 + 1 is composed of Niger, South Africa and Tunisia, plus Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
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