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09-Dec-2022
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UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Izumi Nakamitsu, was requested to brief the Council on the issue of “supplies of lethal weapons to Ukraine and their consequences.” She urged “States to apply effective arms control measures to address the risks related to arms transfer.” UNIFEED
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STORY: UN / UKRAINE
TRT: 3:38
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / RUSSIAN / NATS
DATELINE: 09 DECEMBER 2022, NEW YORK CITY / RECENT
SHOTLIST:
RECENT – NEW YORK CITY
1.Wide shot, exterior, United Nations
09 DECEMBER 2022, NEW YORK CITY
2.Wide shot, Security Council
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Izumi Nakamitsu, High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, United Nations:
“The past nine months have seen tremendous devastation – much as a result of the use of heavy conventional weapons. Attacks against civilians and civilian infrastructure must stop. I also urge States to apply effective arms control measures to address the risks related to arms transfers. I want to reiterate: preventing diversion of supplied weapons and ammunition is essential to avoid fueling conflict and insecurity in the region and beyond.”
4. Wide shot, Security Council
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Izumi Nakamitsu, High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, United Nations:
“The large-scale influx of weapons into any situation of armed conflict raises many concerns for peace and security, including risks of diversion as well as potential spillover and escalation. Measures to counter the potential diversion of weapons and ammunition will be key to post-conflict recovery and regional security and stability, as well as to conflict prevention in other regions. Such measures include pre-transfer risk assessments and post-shipment controls, including on-site inspections and end-user verification.”
6.Wide shot, Security Council
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Izumi Nakamitsu, High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, United Nations:
“Of equal importance is the need to safeguard and account for transferred military equipment. To enhance transparency in arms transfers, the UN Register of Conventional Arms remains a key tool as does the Arms Trade Treaty. It is also an important tool to track the influx of weapons and ammunition in conflict zones. These are all widely accepted general policy approaches by Member States, which we encourage all to follow.”
8. Wide shot, Security Council
9. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Vasily Nebenzya Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Russia:
“I would like to call upon those who can objectively see information to once again, soberly assess the risk of coming from the pumping up of Ukrainian regime with weapons without control the threats to international peace and security, maintaining which is something that the Security Council needs to deal with when you to look at it. These threats are not go down, they are growing because the western countries that do not understand that they are fueling the fire by doing so.”
10. Wide shot, Security Council
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Sergiy Kyslytsya, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ukraine:
“We will therefore continue to de-occupy our sovereign territories in strict accordance with Article 51 of the UN Charter. Any other option would be a betrayal of our compatriots who have been compelled to stay in the occupied territories, and are now waiting for liberation. We are grateful to all friends and allies who support Ukraine in this noble endeavor, including by supplying modern weapons. Their use has been an element of Ukraine exercising the inherent right to self-defense under the abovementioned Article 51 of the UN Charter.”
12. Wide shot, Security Council
STORYLINE:
UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Izumi Nakamitsu, was requested to brief the Council on the issue of “supplies of lethal weapons to Ukraine and their consequences.” She urged “States to apply effective arms control measures to address the risks related to arms transfer.”
She reiterated that preventing diversion of supplied weapons and ammunition is essential to avoid fueling conflict and insecurity in the region and beyond.”
Speaking to the Security Council today (09 Dec) in New York, Nakamitsu said that since the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, a number of States have transferred weapons systems and ammunition to Ukraine for its defence forces. This, as she noted in September, is a matter of public record.
She added that information from Governments regarding their transfers is largely accessible through open sources. Such transfers have included heavy conventional weapons, including battle tanks, armoured combat vehicles, large-calibre artillery systems, missile systems, uncrewed combat aerial vehicles, as well as small arms and light weapons.
The High Representative also noted that there have also been widespread and independently verified reports of the transfer of major conventional weapon systems to non-state armed groups involved in the conflict against Ukraine, including artillery rocket systems.
Nakamitsu said, “the large-scale influx of weapons into any situation of armed conflict raises many concerns for peace and security, including risks of diversion as well as potential spillover and escalation.”
She continued, “measures to counter the potential diversion of weapons and ammunition will be key to post-conflict recovery and regional security and stability, as well as to conflict prevention in other regions. Such measures include pre-transfer risk assessments and post-shipment controls, including on-site inspections and end-user verification.”
“Of equal importance is the need to safeguard and account for transferred military equipment,” Nakamitsu added.
She said, “to enhance transparency in arms transfers, the UN Register of Conventional Arms remains a key tool as does the Arms Trade Treaty,” adding that “it is also an important tool to track the influx of weapons and ammunition in conflict zones. These are all widely accepted general policy approaches by Member States, which we encourage all to follow.”
Russian Ambassador Vasily Nebenzya also briefed the Council. He said, “I would like to call upon those who can objectively see information to once again, soberly assess the risk that comes from the pumping up of Ukrainian regime with weapons without control, the threats to maintaining international peace and security which is something that the Security Council needs to deal with. These threats are not go down, they are growing because the western countries that do not understand that they are fueling the fire by doing so.”
Ukrainian Ambassador Sergiy Kyslytsya said, “we will therefore continue to de-occupy our sovereign territories in strict accordance with Article 51 of the UN Charter. Any other option would be a betrayal of our compatriots who have been compelled to stay in the occupied territories, and are now waiting for liberation.”
He also said, “we are grateful to all friends and allies who support Ukraine in this noble endeavor, including by supplying modern weapons. Their use has been an element of Ukraine exercising the inherent right to self-defense under the abovementioned Article 51 of the UN Charter.”
TRT: 3:38
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / RUSSIAN / NATS
DATELINE: 09 DECEMBER 2022, NEW YORK CITY / RECENT
SHOTLIST:
RECENT – NEW YORK CITY
1.Wide shot, exterior, United Nations
09 DECEMBER 2022, NEW YORK CITY
2.Wide shot, Security Council
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Izumi Nakamitsu, High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, United Nations:
“The past nine months have seen tremendous devastation – much as a result of the use of heavy conventional weapons. Attacks against civilians and civilian infrastructure must stop. I also urge States to apply effective arms control measures to address the risks related to arms transfers. I want to reiterate: preventing diversion of supplied weapons and ammunition is essential to avoid fueling conflict and insecurity in the region and beyond.”
4. Wide shot, Security Council
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Izumi Nakamitsu, High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, United Nations:
“The large-scale influx of weapons into any situation of armed conflict raises many concerns for peace and security, including risks of diversion as well as potential spillover and escalation. Measures to counter the potential diversion of weapons and ammunition will be key to post-conflict recovery and regional security and stability, as well as to conflict prevention in other regions. Such measures include pre-transfer risk assessments and post-shipment controls, including on-site inspections and end-user verification.”
6.Wide shot, Security Council
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Izumi Nakamitsu, High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, United Nations:
“Of equal importance is the need to safeguard and account for transferred military equipment. To enhance transparency in arms transfers, the UN Register of Conventional Arms remains a key tool as does the Arms Trade Treaty. It is also an important tool to track the influx of weapons and ammunition in conflict zones. These are all widely accepted general policy approaches by Member States, which we encourage all to follow.”
8. Wide shot, Security Council
9. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Vasily Nebenzya Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Russia:
“I would like to call upon those who can objectively see information to once again, soberly assess the risk of coming from the pumping up of Ukrainian regime with weapons without control the threats to international peace and security, maintaining which is something that the Security Council needs to deal with when you to look at it. These threats are not go down, they are growing because the western countries that do not understand that they are fueling the fire by doing so.”
10. Wide shot, Security Council
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Sergiy Kyslytsya, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ukraine:
“We will therefore continue to de-occupy our sovereign territories in strict accordance with Article 51 of the UN Charter. Any other option would be a betrayal of our compatriots who have been compelled to stay in the occupied territories, and are now waiting for liberation. We are grateful to all friends and allies who support Ukraine in this noble endeavor, including by supplying modern weapons. Their use has been an element of Ukraine exercising the inherent right to self-defense under the abovementioned Article 51 of the UN Charter.”
12. Wide shot, Security Council
STORYLINE:
UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Izumi Nakamitsu, was requested to brief the Council on the issue of “supplies of lethal weapons to Ukraine and their consequences.” She urged “States to apply effective arms control measures to address the risks related to arms transfer.”
She reiterated that preventing diversion of supplied weapons and ammunition is essential to avoid fueling conflict and insecurity in the region and beyond.”
Speaking to the Security Council today (09 Dec) in New York, Nakamitsu said that since the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, a number of States have transferred weapons systems and ammunition to Ukraine for its defence forces. This, as she noted in September, is a matter of public record.
She added that information from Governments regarding their transfers is largely accessible through open sources. Such transfers have included heavy conventional weapons, including battle tanks, armoured combat vehicles, large-calibre artillery systems, missile systems, uncrewed combat aerial vehicles, as well as small arms and light weapons.
The High Representative also noted that there have also been widespread and independently verified reports of the transfer of major conventional weapon systems to non-state armed groups involved in the conflict against Ukraine, including artillery rocket systems.
Nakamitsu said, “the large-scale influx of weapons into any situation of armed conflict raises many concerns for peace and security, including risks of diversion as well as potential spillover and escalation.”
She continued, “measures to counter the potential diversion of weapons and ammunition will be key to post-conflict recovery and regional security and stability, as well as to conflict prevention in other regions. Such measures include pre-transfer risk assessments and post-shipment controls, including on-site inspections and end-user verification.”
“Of equal importance is the need to safeguard and account for transferred military equipment,” Nakamitsu added.
She said, “to enhance transparency in arms transfers, the UN Register of Conventional Arms remains a key tool as does the Arms Trade Treaty,” adding that “it is also an important tool to track the influx of weapons and ammunition in conflict zones. These are all widely accepted general policy approaches by Member States, which we encourage all to follow.”
Russian Ambassador Vasily Nebenzya also briefed the Council. He said, “I would like to call upon those who can objectively see information to once again, soberly assess the risk that comes from the pumping up of Ukrainian regime with weapons without control, the threats to maintaining international peace and security which is something that the Security Council needs to deal with. These threats are not go down, they are growing because the western countries that do not understand that they are fueling the fire by doing so.”
Ukrainian Ambassador Sergiy Kyslytsya said, “we will therefore continue to de-occupy our sovereign territories in strict accordance with Article 51 of the UN Charter. Any other option would be a betrayal of our compatriots who have been compelled to stay in the occupied territories, and are now waiting for liberation.”
He also said, “we are grateful to all friends and allies who support Ukraine in this noble endeavor, including by supplying modern weapons. Their use has been an element of Ukraine exercising the inherent right to self-defense under the abovementioned Article 51 of the UN Charter.”
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