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GENEVA / DE MISTURA EGELAND
STORY: GENEVA / SYRIA DE MISTURA EGELAND
TRT: 01:37
SOURCE: UNTV CH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 11 AUGUST 2016, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
RECENT, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
1. Wide shot, Palais des Nations
11 AUGUST 2016, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
2. Wide shot, Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura and Special Advisor to the Special Envoy for Syria, Jan Egeland walk up to the podium
3. Wide shot, Egeland and De Mistura in front of journalists
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Staffan de Mistura, United Nations Special Envoy for Syria:
"No military sustainable solution is possible in Aleppo or nowhere else in Syria."
5. Med shot, journalist
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Staffan de Mistura, United Nations Special Envoy for Syria:
"First of all, we the UN, were not consulted. Second, based on what we heard from Yacoub El Hillo, our Humanitarian Coordinator in Damascus, three hours are not enough. “
7. Wide shot, Egeland and De Mistura in front of journalists
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Staffan de Mistura, United Nations Special Envoy for Syria:
“These are not figures; these are people who are waiting for medical evacuation in what has become a medieval approach to a conflict."
9. Med shot, cameras
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Jan Egeland, Special Advisor to the Special Envoy for Syria:
"There are enormous resources ready and humanitarian workers willing to take the risk to go into these zones if they get the permission and they have not at the moment."
11. Close up journalist
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Jan Egeland, Special Advisor to the Special Envoy for Syria:
"The next hours will decide whether these children will die or whether they will survive who can make it happen that they live- well, Iran, Hezbollah, Ahrar al-Sham, those countries that support armed opposition groups.”
13. Med shot, photographer
14. Wide shot, both speakers leaving rostrum
Following Russia’s announcement yesterday of a daily three-hour suspension of military strikes to allow humanitarian aid into the Syrian city of Aleppo, the UN Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, told reporters in Geneva today (11 Aug) that any ceasefire would be helpful to civilians but that three hours “is not enough”.
De Mistura reiterated the UN’s call for a 48-hour pause, but said that talk were ongoing with Russia and other parties to try to implement halt in fighting that would save civilian lives in Syria. The Special Envoy deplored the increasing militarization of the conflict, saying that "no military sustainable solution is possible in Aleppo or anywhere else in Syria."
Reacting to the Russian announcement, the Special Envoy said "first of all, we the UN, were not consulted. Second, based on what we heard from Yacoub El Hillo, our Humanitarian Coordinator in Damascus, three hours are not enough."
He then read a long list of names, mostly children, who are critically wounded in the besieged towns of Madaya and Foah. He concluded by saying "these are not figures; these are people who are waiting for medical evacuation in what has become a medieval approach to a conflict."
Special Advisor Jan Egeland confirmed that Syrian civilians could be helped if only the UN and humanitarian partners were allowed proper access.
Egeland said “there are enormous resources ready and humanitarian workers willing to take the risk to go into these zones if they get the permission and they have not at the moment."
He said “the next hours will decide whether these children will die or whether they will survive."
Egeland said “who can make it happen that they live? Well, Iran, Hezbollah, Ahrar al-Sham, (and) those countries that support armed opposition groups."
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