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DATELINE: 08 AUGUST 2016, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
08 AUGUST 2016, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, conference room
3. Med shot, delegates
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Samantha Power, Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations:
“As we meet, humanitarian access to Eastern Aleppo remains cut off by fighting; and it is possible that it will become difficult to get humanitarian aid to tens or even hundreds of thousands more people in Western Aleppo. If the fighting continues, it is conceivable that civilians on both sides of Aleppo could be cut off from the basic assistance they need. We cannot allow this to happen.”
5. Med shot, delegates
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Samantha Power, Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations:
“The fighting of the past few days confirms what we have known for a very long time – despite the overwhelming force of the Assad regime, Russia, Iran, and Hezbollah on one side – neither side will be able to win a swift or decisive victory in the battle for Aleppo. Yet the longer the fighting drags on, the more civilians will be caught in the middle, the more that they will pay the highest price.”
7. Med shot, delegates
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Clarissa Ward, Foreign Correspondent for CNN:
“It’s a crucial time for people of the world to address the plight of civilians in Aleppo, and I mean civilians on both sides of this conflict. Because what we have seen over the last four years, quite clearly as we heard from Ambassador Power, is that neither side is able to win a decisive victory. Even now it looks as if the rebels may have broken the siege; tomorrow the siege may once again be enforced. And even if the siege continues, let me tell you, this is not going to end in weeks. It could take years and tens of thousands of people could be killed.”
9. Wide shot, room
United States Ambassador Samantha Power today (08 August) said that as fighting continues in Aleppo, Syria, civilians on both the east and west sides of the city “could be cut off from the basic assistance they need.” Power stressed that “we cannot allow this to happen.”
According to news reports, Aleppo is currently under intense aerial bombardment from government forces, just days after rebel forces broke through the siege in the eastern part of the city.
During a meeting convened by France, New Zealand, the US, the UK and Ukraine, Power said “the fighting of the past few days confirms what we have known for a very long time – despite the overwhelming force of the Assad regime, Russia, Iran, and Hezbollah on one side – neither side will be able to win a swift or decisive victory in the battle for Aleppo.”
The longer the fighting drags on, she said “the more civilians will be caught in the middle, the more that they will pay the highest price.”
Also addressing the meeting, CNN Senior International Correspondent Clarissa Ward, who recently returned from Aleppo, said that “even now it looks as if the rebels may have broken the siege; tomorrow the siege may once again be enforced. And even if the siege continues, let me tell you, this is not going to end in weeks. It could take years and tens of thousands of people could be killed.”
The Security Council tomorrow is scheduled to hold closed consultations on the situation in Syria with briefings by Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura and Humanitarian Coordinator Stephen O’Brien.
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