VIENNA / BAN ALEPPO

Talking to reporters in Vienna after a meeting with Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sebastian Kurz, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the situation in Aleppo is “heart-breaking” and that in the absence of a political solution, the United Nations has been “really trying to provide life-saving, life-sustaining humanitarian support to many people who have been stranded.” UNIS VIENNA

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:15
• Production Date: 7 December 2016
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: BAN KI-MOON
• Subject Topical: CONFLICT SITUATION; HUMANITARIAN CRISIS; HUMANITARIAN RELIEF
• Geographic Subject: SYRIA
• MAMS Id: 1790459
• Parent Id: 1790459
• Alternate Title: unifeed161207a

Description

STORY: VIENNA / BAN ALEPPO
TRT: 02:12
SOURCE: UNIS VIENNA
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH NATS

DATELINE: 07 DECEMBER 2016, VIENNA, AUSTRIA

Shotlist

FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters

07 DECEMBER 2016, NEW YORK CITY

2. Various shots, exterior Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
3. Med shot, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz walk up to the podiums
4. Med shot, cameras
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Ban Ki-moon, United Nations:
“What we have seen most recently in Eastern Aleppo, that’s really heart-breaking. We have been really trying to provide life-saving, life-sustaining humanitarian support to many people who have been stranded, who have been kept in the besieged areas or hard-to-reach areas. It has been quite difficult while these fightings were going on.”
6. Med shot, journalist with laptop
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Ban Ki-moon, United Nations:
“We have to have a sustainable cessation of hostilities so that we can have some respite, so that we can help those people. Despite such kind of a difficult situation the United Nations have been providing at least to more than five million people per month, life-saving humanitarian assistance, and more than seven million people with medical supplies.”
8. Med shot, cameras
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Ban Ki-moon, United Nations:
“Most of the infrastructures, hospitals, clinics, water supply, and food supply, have been cut-off. That is very serious humanitarian crisis. I have been urging the Syrian authorities and Syrian armed groups, and also coalition partners, to keep their promise so that we can do our proper humanitarian work in the absence of a political solution.”
10. Med shot, journalist with laptop
11. Med shot, Ban and Kurz at their podiums

Storyline

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today (7 Dec) said the situation in Aleppo is “heart-breaking” and that in the absence of a political solution, the United Nations has been “really trying to provide life-saving, life-sustaining humanitarian support to many people who have been stranded.”

Talking to reporters in Vienna after a meeting with Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sebastian Kurz, Ban said “we have to have a sustainable cessation of hostilities so that we can have some respite, so that we can help those people.”

He noted that despite difficulties, the UN has been providing life-saving humanitarian assistance to “at least to more than five million people per month,” as well as medical supplies to “more than seven million people.”

Ban said “most of the infrastructures, hospitals, clinics, water supply, and food supply, have been cut-off” and stressed that this is a “very serious humanitarian crisis.”

He said that he has urged “the Syrian authorities and Syrian armed groups, and also coalition partners, to keep their promise so that we can do our proper humanitarian work in the absence of a political solution.”

On Monday, the United Nations Security Council failed to adopt a resolution calling for a seven-day ceasefire in Aleppo that would allow humanitarian aid to reach people trapped in the war-ravaged Syrian city.