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GENEVA / SYRIA EGELAND DE MISTURA
STORY: GENEVA / SYRIA EGELAND DE MISTURA
TRT: 3:20
SOURCE: UNTV CH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 1 DECEMBER 2016 GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
1. Aerial shot, Palais des Nations
2. Wide shot, press stakeout
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Jan Egeland, Special Advisor to the UN Special Envoy for Syria:
“The Russian Federation announced that there are four humanitarian corridors. They want to sit down now in Aleppo with the people there to discuss how we can use the four corridors to evacuate people out, especially we have at least 400 wounded that need immediate medical evacuation. But also to use these corridors to get medical supplies and food in.”
4. Close up, journalist
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Jan Egeland, Special Advisor to the UN Special Envoy for Syria:
“Operations are now happening in basements without anaesthesia, imagine having your child rushed to an unsanitary basement and then being operated upon without anaesthesia. These are the conditions today in east Aleppo.”
6. Close up, photograph
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Jan Egeland, Special Advisor to the UN Special Envoy for Syria:
“Of the 27 000, 30,000 people who have come, who have shifted from being on the opposition controlled in the besieged east Aleppo and now are in government controlled areas or in the Kurdish area, we are reaching them. The UN agencies, the Red Cross Red Crescent partners, we are reaching these people. We are scaling up, we are strengthening our presence in west Aleppo as we speak. Those we are not reaching are the people still in besieged eastern Aleppo”.
8. Close up, Staffan de Mistura
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Jan Egeland, Special Advisor to the UN Special Envoy for Syria:
“The desperation has never been at this level, people are exhausted, they are malnourished, they are really without hope. I feel strong sense of responsibility here, we failed these people who are besieged now in their fifth year. “
10. Med shot, journalists
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Staffan de Mistura, Special Envoy for Syria, United Nations:
“UN is still asking for a pause, and you will hear about that, and in order to reach civilians and evacuate them medically. And in this context, the most urgent thing that we are going to ask for at the moment is actually shelter, and places for people to be - winter is coming across. Now I renew in this connection our request to Al-Nusra to leave eastern Aleppo on a safe passage. This will contribute avoiding bloodshed and increase our leverage on insisting on an urgent pause”.
12. Wide shot, podium form behind
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Staffan de Mistura, Special Envoy for Syria, United Nations:
“We will continue – and it is our job - to constantly scan for a good moment for relaunching a political process. But it is in front of your eyes that there is a lot happening that needs to be fractured in. Secondly, I need to consult the Secretary-General and the Secretary-General elect what could be the next move on a political process”.
14. Med shot, journalists
15. Close up, Jan Egeland
As around 400 people are in urgent need of medical evacuations from eastern Aleppo, the Russian Federation has proposed setting up humanitarian corridors.
Following the weekly Humanitarian Taskforce meeting on Syria, Jan Egeland, Special Advisor to the UN Special Envoy for Syria, today (1 Dec) told media in Geneva “the Russian Federation announced that there are four humanitarian corridors. They want to sit down now in Aleppo with the people there to discuss how we can use the four corridors to evacuate people out, especially we have at least 400 wounded that need immediate medical evacuation. But also to use these corridors to get medical supplies and food in.”
Egeland added “operations are now happening in basements without anesthesia, imagine having your child rushed to an unsanitary basement and then being operated upon without anesthesia. These are the conditions today in east Aleppo.”
About 30,000 people are receiving aid after fleeing the besieged eastern zone of the Syrian city of Aleppo in the past few days. In total there are about 400,000 displaced people in the western part.
Egeland also said “of the 27 000, 30,000 people who have come, who have shifted from being on the opposition controlled in the besieged east Aleppo and now are in government controlled areas or in the Kurdish area, we are reaching them. The UN agencies, the Red Cross Red Crescent partners, we are reaching these people. We are scaling up, we are strengthening our presence in west Aleppo as we speak. Those we are not reaching are the people still in besieged eastern Aleppo.”
According to Egeland “the desperation has never been at this level, people are exhausted, they are malnourished, they are really without hope. I feel strong sense of responsibility here, we failed these people who are besieged now in their fifth year.“
De Mistura’s humanitarian advisor said that food and medical equipment for 150,000 people is ready in western Aleppo but still cannot be delivered to the eastern part of the city.
UN Syria Envoy Staffan de Mistura, who briefed yesterday the UN Security Council in an emergency session on Aleppo, recalled today to the media in the Swiss city that the “UN is still asking for a pause, and you will hear about that, and in order to reach civilians and evacuate them medically. And in this context, the most urgent thing that we are going to ask for at the moment is actually shelter, and places for people to be - winter is coming across.”
De Mistura also renewed the “request to Al-Nusra to leave eastern Aleppo on a safe passage. This will contribute avoiding bloodshed and increase our leverage on insisting on an urgent pause.”
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