VIENNA / BAN REFUGEE RESTAURANT

While visiting Habibi & Hawara Restaurant in Austria’s capital ViennaSecretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on European leaders faced with an influx of refugees from Syria to “build bridges” instead of walls. UNIS VIENNA

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:54
• Production Date: 8 December 2016
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: BAN KI-MOON
• Geographic Subject: AUSTRIA; MIDDLE EAST
• MAMS Id: 1791645
• Parent Id: 1791645
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STORY: VIENNA / BAN REFUGEE RESTAURANT
TRT: 02:54
SOURCE: UNIS VIENNA
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / ARABIC / NATS

DATELINE: 08 DECEMBER 2016, VIENNA, AUSTRIA

Shotlist

08 DECEMBER 2016, NEW YORK CITY

1. Zoom in, exterior of restaurant Habibi & Hawara
2. Pan left, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Mrs. Ban arriving and greeting the restaurant owners
3. Med shot, restaurant staff setting up finger food
4. Various shots, Secretary-General and Mrs. Ban visiting the kitchen and greeting staff
5. Tilt up, drinks to restaurant staff
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“I have been urging world leaders particularly in Europe, please do not erect walls. Please build a bridge between people, among people and between countries. They have no other choice but to flee to save their lives to other foreign countries. We are living in a small world. We are all the same human beings, whether you are Syrian, whether you are European or Asian. We are all one.”
7. Med shot, audience
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“A minimum of 16 million people are now caught in the middle of this fighting and violence. I have been visiting many Syrian refugees in Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq. It has been a quite heart-breaking experience for me to meet many young people, girls and boys, and old men and women, who lost completely their home and their livelihood.”
9. Med shot, audience
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“We have 275,000 people in Aleppo who are just caught there. We have tens of thousands people in Mosul, Iraq. It is not only them. We have 65 million people around the world.”
11. Med shot, Secretary-General and Mrs. Ban speaking with restaurant staff over finger food
12. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Cook, Habibi & Hawara Restaurant:
“We learned together, as Austrians and Arabs. We quickly learned how to work, we learned restaurant hospitality, how to communicate with customers, how to cook delicious food, and how we can all work together hand-in-hand.”
13. Med shot, restaurant staff explaining finger food
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Katha Schinkinger, Co-owner, Habibi & Hawara Restaurant:
“Our main goal is to develop our staff’s entrepreneurial skills, the best of whom are becoming shareholders and managing directors of Habibi & Hawara franchises hopefully around Austria in the near future.”
15. Wide shot, Secretary-General, Mrs. Ban and restaurant staff gathering for group photo

Storyline

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today (8 Dec) called on European leaders faced with an influx of refugees from Syria to “build bridges” instead of walls.

Ban was visiting the restaurant Habibi & Hawara Restaurant in Austria’s capital Vienna. Along with a range of typical Middle Eastern fare - by giving refugees a chance to earn a living - the restaurant serves up a helping of solidarity Ban says is badly needed.

Earlier this year, the Secretary-General launched a global campaign to uphold respect, safety and dignity for all those affected by mass migration. His Together initiative has been embraced by all 193 Member States of the United Nations.

SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“I have been urging world leaders particularly in Europe: Please do not erect walls. Please build a bridge between people, among people and between countries. They have no other choice but to flee to save their lives to other foreign countries. We are living in a small world. We are all the same human beings, whether you are Syrian, whether you are European or Asian. We are all one.”

Syria, Ban said, presented a “very difficult situation”.

SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“A minimum of 16 million people are now caught in the middle of this fighting and violence. I have been visiting many Syrian refugees in Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq. It has been a quite heart-breaking experience for me to meet many young people, girls and boys, and old men and women, who lost completely their home and their livelihood.”

As the UN Children’s Fund warns that there was now ‘no safe place left in Aleppo’, the Secretary-General appealed to help civilians caught up in conflicts in Syria and elsewhere.

SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“We have 275,000 people in Aleppo who are just caught there. We have tens of thousands people in Mosul, Iraq. It is not only them. We have 65 million people around the world.”

Austria took in large numbers of refugees in 2015 before eventually making a controversial decision to limit the numbers coming in. Many Austrians spontaneously came out to help refugees arriving in their country.

Syrians working at Habibi & Hawara seem to agree that finding common ground is not so hard.

SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Cook, Habibi & Hawara Restaurant:
“We learned together, as Austrians and Arabs. We quickly learned how to work; we learned restaurant hospitality, how to communicate with customers, how to cook delicious food, and how we can all work together hand-in-hand.”

Co-owner Katha Schinkinger spoke about the plans for the restaurant

SOUNDBITE (English) Katha Schinkinger, Co-owner, Habibi & Hawara Restaurant:
“Our main goal is to develop our staff’s entrepreneurial skills, the best of whom are becoming shareholders and managing directors of Habibi & Hawara franchises hopefully around Austria in the near future.”

Ban is currently on the last trip of his tenure as UN Secretary-General, spending three days in Vienna where he has also met with Austrian President-elect Alexander van der Bellen, Chancellor Christian Kern and Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz.