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GENEVA / DE MISTURA HNC WRAP
STORY: GENEVA / DE MISTURA HNC WRAP
TRT: 03:51
SOURCE: UNTV CH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 15 MARCH 2016, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / RECENT
RECENT - GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
1. Exterior, Palais des Nations
15MARCH 2016 GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
2. Wide shot, press stakeout
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Staffan de Mistura, UN Special Envoy for Syria:
“There’s been so far as you know a issue of humanitarian aid and of reduction of violence. But on the detainees’ aspect, we’ve been having extremely, if possible, nothing, in terms of outcome. And I the humanitarian taskforce can be tasked with that. I think, through us the agency will raise that and I am sure others will do the same.”
4. Wide shot, journalists
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Staffan de Mistura, UN Special Envoy for Syria:
“And then we went into some general but quite important overall principles that can and should be actually educating the future of not only the constitution but also the transitional political process.”
6. Pan right, press
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Staffan de Mistura, UN Special Envoy for Syria:
“The difference has been caused by three factors, and there’s been a sense of urgency, and those factors are being caused unfortunately by also the refugee crisis, has been certainly caused by the new factor that we saw yesterday starting to change of the Russian military intervention, and certainly by the advances, or at least non-defeat of Daesh. All this has produced a new momentum, and the momentum, I would call it, is the Vienna momentum, which then became the Munich momentum, and now is back to Geneva momentum. ”
9. Wide shot, de Mistura leaves presser
10. Wide shot, Bassma Kodmani, member of the Syrian Opposition at the podium
11. Wide shot, press
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Bassma Kodmani, Member of the Syrian Opposition:
“We had an opportunity to raise specific concerns about certain areas, one of them is Darayya which is particularly, particularly victimized, given that after four years there is still no aid at all that has gone into Darayya, in the western country side of Damascus.”
13. Wide shot, journalists
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Bassma Kodmani, Member of the Syrian Opposition:
“The vision that the High Negotiations Committee has put forward, we believe is a starting point for a discussion that we would like to take into more details in the following sessions that we will have. And we do hope that the government’s delegation will be bringing as well some progress in what is has presented and go into details about what it sees as the general principles that should be the future of Syria, that should be the principles that founds the new Syria, as well as its vision of what the transitional process should look like.”
15. Med shot, Syrian opposition members leaving press encounter
16 Various shots, HNC meeting arrivals
17. Various shots, HNC meeting
The intra-Syrian talks commenced this week with UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura at the helm. The talks are being convened in the context of the full implementation of the Geneva Communiqué as the basis for a Syrian-led political transition.
De Mistura said that while there has here’s been progress in the delivery of humanitarian aid and in a reduction of violence, “on the detainees’ aspect, we’ve been having extremely, if possible, nothing, in terms of outcome.”
He said he expected the humanitarian taskforce to be “tasked with that.”
Reacting to Monday’s announcement by President Vladimir Putin that Russia is withdrawing the bulk of its forces from Syria, de Mistura said there was a new momentum, “caused by the new factor that we saw yesterday starting to change of the Russian military intervention, and certainly by the advances, or at least non-defeat of Daesh.”
Talks resumed yesterday between representatives of the Government and those of the opposition in Syria, where the United Nations envoy overseeing the discussions said a fragile cessation of hostilities has been holding for 19 days.
Also speaking to reporters, a member of the Syrian opposition, Bassma Kodmani, said “we had an opportunity to raise specific concerns about certain areas, one of them is Darayya which is particularly, particularly victimized, given that after four years there is still no aid at all that has gone into Darayya, in the western country side of Damascus.”
Kodmani said “the vision that the High Negotiations Committee has put forward, we believe is a starting point for a discussion that we would like to take into more details in the following sessions that we will have. And we do hope that the government’s delegation will be bringing as well some progress in what is has presented and go into details about what it sees as the general principles that should be the future of Syria, that should be the principles that founds the new Syria, as well as its vision of what the transitional process should look like.”
The focus of the new talks is on matters of governance, including a new Constitution of Syria, and the holding of elections.
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