UN / ALEPPO UPDATE

The United Nations (UN) regretted the lack of “adequate guarantees” that would allow for humanitarian assistance to reach besieged eastern Aleppo and urged all parties to facilitate “immediate and urgent medical evacuations of the sick and wounded and their family members." UNIFEED

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:00:57
• Production Date: 24 October 2016
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: STEPHANE DUJARRIC
• Subject Topical: HUMANITARIAN CRISIS; SYRIA SITUATION
• Geographic Subject: SYRIA
• MAMS Id: 1751297
• Parent Id: 1751297
• Alternate Title: unifeed161024e

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STORY: UN / ALEPPO UPDATE
TRT: 00:57
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 24 OCTOBER 2016, NEW YORK CITY

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1. Wide shot, UNHQ exterior

OCTOBER 2016, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, press room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson, United Nations:
“We regret that adequate guarantees have not yet been provided for humanitarian and medical assistance into besieged eastern Aleppo and urge all parties to facilitate immediate and urgent medical evacuations of the sick and wounded and their family members. These are basic requirements under international humanitarian law and human rights law, and compliance is an obligation for all parties.”
4. Close up, reporter asking question
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson, United Nations:
“We have colleagues on the ground and in the region who are in touch with all the parties. It’s a more than a multi-dimensional chess game. It’s a matter of making sure that all the starts are aligned for them to say ‘we can go ahead with this’ or ‘we can’t go ahead with this.’”
6. Wide shot, press room

Storyline

The United Nations (UN) regretted the lack of “adequate guarantees” that would allow for humanitarian assistance to reach besieged eastern Aleppo and urged all parties to facilitate “immediate and urgent medical evacuations of the sick and wounded and their family members.”

Speaking to reporters in New York today (24 Oct), UN spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said none of the planned medical evacuations were carried out over the weekend due to the lack of security guarantees from all parties. He said these were basic requirements under international humanitarian and human rights law, and compliance was an “obligation for all parties.”

Responding to a question on evacuations, Dujarric said that it could sometimes be done in a shorter amount of time than “rolling in” humanitarian trucks. He said UN personnel were in contact with all parties, adding that “it’s a more than multi-dimensional chess game; it’s a matter of making sure that all the stars are aligned for them to say ‘we can go ahead with this’ or ‘we can’t go ahead with this.’”