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STORY: UN / EBOLA 1
TRT: 4.28
SOURCE: UNIFEED-UNTV
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / FRENCH / NATS
DATELINE: 25 SEPTEMBER 2014, NEW YORK CITY / RECENT
RECENT – NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations Headquarters
25 SEPTEMBER 2014, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, dais Margaret Chan singing a song to catch participants’ attention
3. Med shot, Margaret Chan, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO)
3. Wide shot, dais
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“Many have tried to shut out the virus by closing their borders. Several airlines have stopped serving the three countries. The number of ships docking at their ports has dwindled. But such an approach only makes the situation worse, isolating countries when they need help most.”
5. Wide shot, conference room
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Margaret Chan, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO):
“You have all seen the photographs, the videos, the headlines, sick and dying patients are being turned away. They are being turned away from overflowing treatment centres.”
7. Wide shot, US President Barack Obama walking to podium
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Barack Obama, President, United States of America:
“If ever there were a public health emergency deserving of an urgent, strong and coordinated international response, this is it. “
9. Wide shot, Barack Obama talking at the podium
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Barack Obama, President, United States of America:
“I want us to be clear: We are not moving fast enough. We are not doing enough. Right now, everybody has the best of intentions, but people are not putting in the kinds of resources that are necessary to put a stop at this epidemic. There’s still a significant gap between where we are and where we need to be. We know from experience that the response to an outbreak of this magnitude has to be fast and has to be sustained.”
11. Wide shot, Barack Obama leaving the podium and participants applauding
12. SOUNDBITE (French) Alpha Condé, President, Republic of Guinea:
“Halting the epidemic and its fallout requires the strengthening of the infrastructures and the health systems of the three States. This also applies to health workers, increasing their number, access and skills. This is the guarantee for a common success.”
13. Wide shot, dais
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, President, Republic of Liberia:
“Partners and friends –based on understandable fears- have ostracized us. Shipping and airline services have sanctioned us and the world has taken some time to fully appreciate and adequately respond to the enormity of our tragedy. We are fighting back.”
15. Wide shot, dais
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Ernest Bai Koroma, President, Sierra Leone:
“Our international partners were slow to recognize the threat for what it was, and when the recognition did come, it came with a flurry of fear that led to banning the travel to and from Sierra Leone and our region. This is the very first time Ebola got to my country Sierra Leone. We did not bring it to ourselves.”
17. Med shot, dais
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Jim Kim, President of the World Bank Group:
“If the scenarios that have been provided to us by the United States Centre for Disease Control (CDC) come true and we have over a million cases, we are talking about that nothing less than the potential meltdown of this continent.”
19. Wide shot, participants
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Jim Kim, President of the World Bank Group:
“We approved nine days ago, 105 million dollars and we dispersed that already in nine days and if any of you work at the World Bank knows that is almost a miracle. But I went back to the board and I asked them to nearly double our commitment. So, we will now be committing 400 million dollars to the response.”
21. Wide shot, meeting room
World leaders met at the United Nations to discuss how to contain and stop the spread of the Ebola virus. They discussed how to improve the treatment to those who are infected, ensure essential services, preserve stability and prevent outbreaks in other countries.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon highlighted that there is overwhelming international political momentum for the United Nations to play a leading role in coordinating the global response to the outbreak.
He added that the Organization will play this role and meet this challenge, adding that within 24 hours of a call for staff to deploy, the United Nations had received 4,000 applications.
Ban also said “many have tried to shut out the virus by closing their borders. Several airlines have stopped serving the three countries. The number of ships docking at their ports has dwindled. But such an approach only makes the situation worse, isolating countries when they need help most.”
According to the latest update from the World Health Organization, the total number of cases in the current Ebola outbreak is 6,263 cases and 2,917 deaths.
The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Margaret Chan said “you have all seen the photographs, the videos, the headlines, sick and dying patients are being turned away. They are being turned away from overflowing treatment centres.”
More than two dozen world leaders participated in the meeting, held on the margins of the General Assembly’s annual high-level debate.
United States President Barack Obama, whose country has offered military leadership and the establishment of a regional command and control centre in Monrovia, encouraged a faster and sustained response.
He said “if ever there were a public health emergency deserving of an urgent, strong and coordinated international response, this is it.”
Obama emphasized “we are not moving fast enough. We are not doing enough.”
He added “right now, everybody has the best of intentions, but people are not putting in the kinds of resources that are necessary to put a stop at this epidemic. There’s still a significant gap between where we are and where we need to be. We know from experience that the response to an outbreak of this magnitude has to be fast and has to be sustained.”
The President of Guinea, Alpha Condé, said “halting the epidemic and its fallout requires the strengthening of the infrastructures and the health systems of the three States. This also applies to health workers, increasing their number, access and skills. This is the guarantee for a common success.”
Speaking via teleconference, the President of Liberia Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf said “partners and friends –based on understandable fears- have ostracized us. Shipping and airline services have sanctioned us and the world has taken some time to fully appreciate and adequately respond to the enormity of our tragedy.”
She emphasized “we are fighting back.”
Also speaking via teleconference, the President of Sierra Leone Ernest Bai Koroma, said “our international partners were slow to recognize the threat for what it was, and when the recognition did come, it came with a flurry of fear that led to banning the travel to and from Sierra Leone and our region.”
He added “this is the very first time Ebola got to my country Sierra Leone. We did not bring it to ourselves.”
World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, warned of the consequences of not rising to the challenge of tackling the outbreak in Africa, which the UN Security Council has declared a threat to peace and security.
He said “if the scenarios that have been provided to us by the United States Centre for Disease Control (CDC) come true and we have over a million cases, we are talking about that nothing less than the potential meltdown of this continent.”
Finally, Kim noted that nine days ago the World Bank committed 105 million dollars to fight the disease.
He added “I went back to the board and I asked them to nearly double our commitment. So, we will now be committing 400 million dollars to the response.”
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