- Title: UN: U.N. SECURITY COUNCIL DISCUSS PROBLEM OF CHILD SOLDIERS.
- Date: 26th August 1999
- Summary: UNIDENTIFIED LOCATIONS (RECENT) (UNICEF-ACCESS ALL) 1. TRACK: SCENES OF CHILD-SOLDIERS AT WAR (7 SHOTS) 0.23 UNITED NATIONS (RECENT) (RTN-ACCESS ALL) 2. CU: (SOUNDBITE) (English) OLARA OTUNNU, UN SPECIAL ENVOY FOR CHILDREN AND ARMED CONFLICT saying, "Children in all situations of conflict today are being abused and brutalized as never before. Children are innocent. They're especially vulnerable. They're ill-equiped to cope and respond to situations of conflict. So, they're truly innocent victims. But more than that, in every society the hope and future of society is reposed on children. You destroy the children and you destroy the society. 0.59 UNIDENTIFIED LOCATIONS (RECENT) (UNICEF-ACCESS ALL) 3. CU/SV: ARMED CHILDREN (2 SHOTS) 1.04 4. CU: (SOUNDBITE) (English) UNIDENTIFIED CHILD SOLDIER saying, "I'm fighting to save my people and my life and my country, defending my country." 1.11 UNITED NATIONS (AUGUST 25, 1999) (UNTV) 5. GV: UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL IN SESSION 1.19 6. TV/PAN: OLARA OTUNNU WALKING TO HIS SEAT TO ADDRESS THE COUNCIL 1.24 7. SCU: (SOUNDBITE) (English) OLARA OTUNNU saying, "There's a reason why inspite of the suffering I've seen and the adversity in the places I've visited I've come back with a renewed sense of hope and say to you and the rest of the international community, the way forward to help these communities caught in the midst of war and its aftermath is to go women, go children and go local. Thank you very much sir. Thank you for the initiative in convening this meeting. Thank you." 1.58 8. GV: SECURITY COUNCIL 2.03 9. MV: (SOUNDBITE) (English) STEWART ELDON, REPRESENTING THE UNITED KINGDOM SAYING, "Mr. President we must raise the internationally agreed minimum age of recruitment for soldiers. The current age of 15 is too low." 2.13 10. GV: SECURITY COUNCIL 2.16 11. CU: (SOUNDBITE) (French) YVES DOUTRIAUX REPRESENTING FRANCE saying, "Mr. President we should mobilise all the resources available to us so that children might enjoy the right to peace." 2.25 12. SV: SECURITY COUNCIL 2.30 13. MCU: (SOUNDBITE) (English) NANCY SODERBERG REPRESENTING THE UNITED STATES: "We should not let our attention be distracted by debates on the margins of the problem, but rather should focus on where the real abuses are, with children even younger than 15 whose lives are totally distorted by the recruitment into armed conflict and brutality, becoming both perpetrators and victims." 2.50 14. SV: SECURITY COUNCIL 2.56 15. MCU: (SOUNDBITE) (Mandarin) SHEN GUOFANG REPRESENTING CHINA: "We call upon the international community and the relevant international organizations and the United Nations agencies in particular to strengthen their coordination and cooperation and join hands in a greater effort to solve the problem of children in armed conflict." 3.16 16. SV: SECURITY COUNCIL 3.21 17. mcu: (SOUNDBITE) (English) GENADI GATALOV REPRESENTING RUSSIA, "In conclusion I would like to express the hope that today's broad discussion and any possible decision that the Security Council might adopt will give the impulse to international cooperation to protecting the younger generation from the violence of armed conflicts." 3.54 UNIDENTIFIED LOCATIONS (RECENT) (UNICEF-ACCESS ALL) 18. MV/CU: CHILDREN AT WAR (6 SHOTS) 4.15 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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