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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 30 OCTOBER 2014, NEW YORK CITY / RECENT
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1. Wide shot, exterior, United Nations Headquarters
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2. Wide shot, Security Council chamber
3. Wide shot, Security Council and screen with videoconference
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Kyung-Wha Kang, Assistant Secretary-General and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator:
“Armed violence continues to escalate throughout the country. The humanitarian situation in Syria continues to deteriorate and the levels of violence, death and destructions remain unrelenting.”
6. Med shot, delegates
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Kyung-Wha Kang, Assistant Secretary-General and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator:
“So long as the parties to conflict continue to disregard their international legal obligations I regret that we will continue to report on more and more senseless tragedies despite the demands of the Security Council’s resolutions 2139 and 2165.”
8. Med shot, delegates
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Kyung-Wha Kang, Assistant Secretary-General and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator:
“We are still unable to deliver sufficient quantities of aid to people in the hardest-to-reach areas. Fighting and insecurity continue to hamper our ability to respond.”
14. Wide shot, Security Council and screen with videoconference
15. Med shot, Staffan de Mistura at the stakeout position
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16. Close up, camera
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17. SOUNDBITE (English) Staffan de Mistura, United Nations Special Envoy for Syria:
“As you know very well by experience, many drops can produce a lake and a lake can produce a sea. We have to start somewhere. So far, we started bottom up down conferences, large meetings and then there was a stand still. Da’esh has been wakening us all up about its own danger and its own very quick agenda, and is providing an opportunity –I hope-for even those who are in disagreement among them about what is the future of Syria to show that we can produce those drops. In any case, when I was in Syria the message was Halas! Enough! The people are suffering too much.”
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18. Close up, notepad
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19. Wide shot, Staffan de Mistura leaving
20. Wide shot, Syrian ambassador walking to stakeout
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21. Close up, camera
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22. SOUNDBITE (English) Bashar Ja'afari, Permanent Representative of Syria to the United Nations:
“The suffering of the Syrian people should be regarded seriously speaking and dealt with very seriously. Mr. de Mistura said that heard in Damascus in Syria the word Halas, enough is enough, and he was right enough is enough with regard helping the terrorists crossing our border through Jordan, through Lebanon and through Turkey.”
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23. Close up, cellphone
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24. Wide shot, Syrian ambassador leaving
A senior official from the United Nations humanitarian agency told the Security Council that armed violence continues to escalate throughout Syrian, adding that the humanitarian situation in the country continues to deteriorate and “the levels of violence, death and destruction remain unrelenting.”
Speaking today (30 Oct) by videoconference from Geneva, the Assistant Secretary-General and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator Kyung-Wha Kang, stressed that millions of Syrians are forced to live in appalling conditions, where there is no safe refuge within their borders and where their basic needs for protection and survival aren’t met.
She pointed out that 24 percent of the hospitals in the country were deemed not to be functioning, while medical personnel suffered from attacks.
Kang noted that if the parties to conflict continue to disregard their international legal obligations, the UN humanitarian agency will continue to report on more and more “senseless” tragedies despite the demands of the Security Council’s resolutions 2139 and 2165.
In February of this year, the Council adopted resolution 2139 with the aim of pressing the parties to the conflict to abide by basic international legal obligations and to reduce the suffering of ordinary people caught up in the conflict.
Then in July, the 15-member body adopted resolution 2165, authorizing cross-border and cross-line access for the UN and its partners to deliver humanitarian aid in Syria without the consent of the State.
Kang noted that in the past month, more than 3.9 million people had received food aid and hundreds of thousands had received other assistance. Cross-border assistance has allowed the UN and its partners to reach more people in need. And she added that humanitarian access to civilians in areas controlled by Da’esh (ISIL) continues to be difficult.
She said “we are still unable to deliver sufficient quantities of aid to people in the hardest-to-reach areas. Fighting and insecurity continue to hamper our ability to respond.”
The Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura spoke to the press after a close meeting with the Security Council meeting.
He explained that he didn’t have a peace plan, but an action plan, in which he proposes the implementation of free zones, in order to make sure that in those areas it will be possible to build some political process, and give some hope to the civilian population.
Asked about his plan and comparing it to “drops of hope”, de Mistura said “many drops can produce a lake, and a lake can produce a sea. We have to start somewhere.”
He also said “so far, we started bottom up down conferences, large meetings and then there was a stand still. Da’esh (ISIL) has been wakening us all up about its own danger and its own very quick agenda, and is providing an opportunity –I hope-for even those who are in disagreement among them about what is the future of Syria to show that we can produce those drops.”
Finally, de Mistura emphasized “when I was in Syria the message was Halas! Enough! The people are suffering too much.”
Also speaking to reporters, Syrian ambassador Bashar Ja'afari said -in reference to de Mistura’s remarsk- “the suffering of the Syrian people should be regarded seriously speaking and dealt with very seriously.”
He also stressed “Mr. de Mistura said that heard in Damascus in Syria the word Halas, enough is enough, and he was right enough is enough with regard helping the terrorists crossing our border through Jordan, through Lebanon and through Turkey.”
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