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SYRIA / GRANDI ALEPPO
STORY: SYRIAN / GRANDI ALEPPO
TRT: 01:29
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 01 FEBRUARY 2017, ALEPPO, SYRIA
1. Various shots, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi walking around city ruins
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees:
“Look at these ruins, the ruins of this war. This is what refugees from Syria, who are now denied entry have fled from.”
3. Various shots, Grandi walking around city ruins
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees:
“I think we must think first of all, that there are people here, some of them are returning to these ruins who need help, immediate help. They are cold, they are hungry, they need to work to earn some money, they need the elementary things of life in this very ancient city, all of a sudden they start again and I think we need to accelerate humanitarian assistance, we need resources for that.”
5. Various shots, destroyed buildings in the city
UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi visited Aleppo on the third day of his official visit to Syria, witnessing first-hand the devastation from years of fighting.
As he walked through the ruins of the city, Grandi remarked that this was what refugees from Syria “who are now denied entry” into the United States “have fled from.”
The High Commissioner said “there are people here, some of them are returning to these ruins who need help, immediate help.”
He called for accelerating humanitarian assistance and said “they are cold, they are hungry, they need to work to earn some money, they need the elementary things of life in this very ancient city.”
Grandi stressed the importance of reaching a peace deal that will allow the rebuilding to begin.
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