LEBANON / BAN KI-MOON

The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Lebanon this Thursday the start of a five-day visit to the Middle East, including stops in Jordan and Tunisia. UNIFIL

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:20
• Production Date: 24 March 2016
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: BAN KI-MOON
• Subject Topical: PEACE
• Geographic Subject: LEBANON
• MAMS Id: 1589913
• Parent Id: 1589913
• Alternate Title: unifeed160324g

Description

STORY: LEBANON / BAN KI-MOON
TRT: 2:20
SOURCE: UNIFIL
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 24 MARCH 2016, BEIRUT AND NAQOURA , LEBANON

Shotlist

24 MARCH 2016, BEIRUT, LEBANON

1.Wide shot, Ban Ki-moon disembarking from plane
2.Wide shot, Ban walking with delegation on tarmac
3.Med shot, Ban walking into meeting room
4.Various shots, Ban meeting with Wafic Rhaime, Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants of Lebanon

24 MARCH 2016, NAQOURA LEBANON

5.Various shots, helicopter landing at UNIFIL base carrying Ban and his wife S –Taek
6.Med shot, Ban gets out of car and salutes force commander Major-General Luciano Portolano
7.Various shots, Ban walking down carpet guard of honor
8.Various shots, Ban meeting with Force Commander Major-General Luciano Portolano, signing the book of honor
9.SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Peace and security in Lebanon will have implications far beyond this country and the region. Now UNIFIL and Lebanon are having another challenges. The continuing conflict in Syria a spread of ISIL, terrorist elements really make us much more, needs to be much more vigilant and I’m asking peacekeepers here to be much more vigilant.”
10.Med shot, Ban shaking hands with UNIFIL personel

Storyline

United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Lebanon Thursday, the start of a five-day visit to the Middle East, including stops in Jordan and Tunisia.

The UN chief's visit to the region comes ahead of a major meeting on Syrian refugees to be held in Geneva on Wednesday.

In Lebanon, Ban met with the Parliament Speaker, the Prime Minister and the Defense Minister, among others.

Their itinerary also includes visits to communities hosting Syrian and Palestinian refugees.

Lebanon, which has a population of around five million people, is hosting more than one million Syrians who have escaped the conflict in their homeland.

Some 450,000 Palestinian refugees are also living there.

Ban also visited the headquarters of the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) which is located in Naqoura, in the south of the country.