UN / GING MYANMAR

Upon his return from Myanmar, OCHA Director of Operations John Ging called for an “equitable and just solution” to the citizenship crisis in Rakhine State, where over 800,000 persons are estimated to be without citizenship. UNIFEED-UNTV

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:22
• Production Date: 3 October 2014
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME - UNDP; OFFICE FOR THE COORDINATION OF HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS - OCHA
• Subject Topical: DEVELOPMENT; REFUGEES; DISPLACED PERSONS; HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE
• Geographic Subject: DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF KOREA; MYANMAR
• MAMS Id: 1192072

Description

STORY: UN / GING MYANMAR
TRT: 2.22
SOURCE: UNIFEED - UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGAUGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 3 OCTOBER 2014, NEW YORK CITY / RECENT

Shotlist

RECENT – NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters

22 SEPTEMBER 2014, NEW YORK CITY

2. Med shot dais
3. Wide shot, journalists
4. SOUNDBITE (English) John Ging, OCHA Director of Operations:
“In every meeting, at every level, what we are calling for and insisting on is an equitable and just solution to the citizenship issue. We are hearing from all our interlocutors, as I say, from the Vice President and right down through, that they fully understand that that is the key issue. The proof will be in the outcome.”
5. Med shot, journalist
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Haoliang Xu, UN Development Programme Regional Director for Asia:
“What’s important really is the rights of people, the rights of people, and the outcome that will determine it. What people want, what the Muslim community wants is citizenship, a citizenship that is equitable, that affords them the rights just like any other citizen in the country.”
7. Med shot, journalists
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Haoliang Xu, UN Development Programme Regional Director for Asia:
“Myanmar continues to implement an ambitious reform agenda. And it was clear that the transition is under way as we travelled from Yangon to Rakhine State and to the country’s capital Naypyidaw. UNDP has been supporting this reform agenda, particularly for democratizing and modernizing of the state institutions.”
9. Med shot, journalists
10. SOUNDBITE (English) John Ging, OCHA Director of Operations:
“It is a very significant challenge that we do face there with an estimated 16 million people who are chronically food insecure, and the World Food Programme estimates that 16 percent of households have inadequate levels of food consumption with 2.4 million people relying on regular food assistance. Chronic malnutrition is of course a fact of life in this country and that results in over 30 percent of the children being stunted.”
11. Wide shot, journalists
12. Med shot, end of presser

Storyline

Upon his return from Myanmar, OCHA Director of Operations John Ging called for an “equitable and just solution” to the the citizenship crisis in Rakhine State, where over 800,000 persons are estimated to be without citizenship.

Ging said “we are hearing from all our interlocutors, as I say, from the Vice President and right down through, that they fully understand that that is the key issue. The proof will be in the outcome.”

UN Assistant Secretary-General and UN Development Programme Regional Director for Asia Haoliang Xu who together with Ging met displaced people and government officials during their visit, said “what’s important really is the rights of people, the rights of people, and the outcome that will determine it.”

Violent clashes in Rakhine in 2012 led to the displacement of 140,000 people into 68 camps and settlements for internally displaced people. More than 1 million people face discrimination and severe restrictions on their freedom of movement, seriously compromising their basic rights to food, health, education and livelihoods, while reinforcing their reliance on international humanitarian assistance.

Xu said, “what the Muslim community wants is citizenship, a citizenship that is equitable, that affords them the rights just like any other citizen in the country.”

The UNDP official pointed out that “Myanmar continues to implement an ambitious reform agenda.”

He said it was clear that the transition is under way as we travelled from Yangon to Rakhine State and to the country’s capital Naypyidaw” and added that UNDP “has been supporting this reform agenda, particularly for democratizing and modernizing of the state institutions.”

Ging also reported on his trip to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) and said it was "a very significant challenge that we do face there with an estimated 16 million people who are chronically food insecure, and the World Food Programme estimates that 16 percent of households have inadequate levels of food consumption with 2.4 million people relying on regular food assistance. Chronic malnutrition is of course a fact of life in this country and that results in over 30 percent of the children being stunted.”