UN / UKRAINE VOTE WRAP

1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations Headquarters

21 JULY 2014, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, pan left, Security Council members voting
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Julie Bishop, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Australia:
“Our resolution demands that armed groups in control of the crash site provide safe access immediately to allow for the recovery of the bodies, and that these armed groups stop any actions that comprise the integrity of the crash site. This is imperative”
4. Med shot, delegates
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Julie Bishop, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Australia:
“There must be a ceasefire in the immediate area around the site. The victims must be treated with dignity, brought back to their homes and laid to rest. All parties are required to fully cooperate with these efforts. Russia must use its influence over the separatists to ensure this.”
6. Med shot, Ukrainian delegate
7. Med shot, Russian delegate
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Samantha Power, Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations:
“We have adopted a resolution today, but we are not naïve. If Russia is nor part of the solution, it will continue to be part of the problem.”
9. Med shot, delegates
10. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Vitaly Churkin, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations:
“It seemed to me that today’s meeting was not going to be controversial. However, the US representative chose a literary track. Perhaps Washington doesn’t know about those efforts which Russia has undertaken in the frame of the contact group among other things to ensure that the international experts can come to the area of the crash as briefly as possible and that’s a fact that the American embassy should be better inform and indeed there’s no need to turn the discussion of the tragedy into a farse.”
11. Med shot, delegates
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Frans Timmermans, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands:
“For the Netherlands, one priority clearly stands out above all others: bring the victims' remains home. It is a matter of human decency that remains should be treated with respect and that recovering victim's remains should be done without any delay.”
13. Med shot, delegates
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Yuriy Sergeyev, Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations:
“We assume that the investigation should not only allow to establish the technical cause of the crash, but also the other important circumstances. Namely who had actually fired the missile, how they had precision long range weapons got to the hands of illegal armed groups. Where did those weapons come from?”
15. Wide shot, Russian representative leaving the Security Council
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Julie Bishop, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Australia:
“The options for what has happened had narrowed considerably and it is now pretty clear what happened. We just need to determine who did it.
17. Wide shot, reporters
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Julie Bishop, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Australia:
“The message from this unanimous resolution to those at the such is: do not temper with the evidence, allow the investigators full access unimpeded unfitted to the site. Do not touch the belongings of the victims, they are not yours, they belong to the families and they are evidence.”
19. Wide shot, cameramen
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Frans Timmermans, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands:
“What I found mindboggling is that you would accuse Ukrainians of being responsible and at the same time you would not act when separatists are doing everything to make an independent inquiry impossible or more difficult. So, I hope that now Russia would now feel its responsibility, act upon its responsibility. If it doesn’t, it’s going to have an increasingly isolated position in the international world.”
21. Wide shot, Australian and Netherlander representatives leaving the stakeout