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STORY: UN / LIBYA UPDATE
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SOURCE: UNIFEED
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /NONE
DATELINE: 11 APRIL 2019, NEW YORK CITY
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1. Wide shot, exterior, UN Headquarters
11 APRIL 2019, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, spokesperson going to podium
3. Cutaway, reports
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Stephane Dujarric, spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General:
“Our political colleagues on the ground said that clashes have reportedly further intensified in southern Tripoli, with the fighting in the past 24 hours the heaviest since the outbreak of hostilities. We remain deeply concerned about the wellbeing of civilians in and around the area of clashes, especially amid increasing reports of indiscriminate shelling on built-up areas, leading to an upsurge in displacement and blocking access to emergency services.”
5. Cutaway, reporters
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Stephane Dujarric, spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General:
“Our humanitarian colleagues reported that displacements continue to surge from areas affected by the clashes in and around Tripoli. More than eight thousand people have fled the fighting, according to the International Organization for Migration. An estimated 650 families have requested relocation to safer areas. However due to access restriction, hostilities and the indiscriminate use of weapons, the evacuation teams have only been able to respond to 15 percent of all requests. Further operations continue today. Families stranded inside the conflict areas not only fear for their safety but are also starting to run out of supplies.’
7. Cutaway, reporters
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Stephane Dujarric, spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General:
“The World Health Organization for its part has deployed emergency medical teams to help hospitals cope with their caseloads and support surgical staff in collaboration with the Ministry of Health. The WHO plans to deploy additional emergency teams to support first-line responders and is activated contingency stocks which were strategically pre-positioned before the fighting began.”
9. Cutaway, reporters
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Stephane Dujarric, spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General:
“In Tripoli, Ghassan Salamé echoed the Secretary-General’s appeal to stop the fighting immediately, stressing that it is a high time for the voices of reason to prevail and save Libya from the scourge of a bloody civil war. The UN Support Mission in Libya continues to work to de-escalate the military situation and support humanitarian assistance. The UN urges all parties to respect the calls for humanitarian truce to allow civilians caught in crossfire to move to safer places.”
11. Wide shot, press room
Amid escalating fighting in Libyan capital Tripoli, the United Nations “urges all parties to respect the calls for humanitarian truce to allow civilians caught in crossfire to move to safer places,” a UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric read in a statement on Thursday (11 Apr) in New York.
The fighting in the past 24 hours in southern Tripoli was “the heaviest since the outbreak of hostilities,” according to the reports from the UN political staff on the ground, said Dujarric adding in “we remain deeply concerned about the wellbeing of civilians in and around the area of clashes, especially amid increasing reports of indiscriminate shelling on built-up areas, leading to an upsurge in displacement and blocking access to emergency services.”
The humanitarian actors in Tripoli are also reporting that displacements continue to surge from areas affected by the clashes in and around Tripoli, where - according to the International Organization for Migration, more than eight thousand people have fled the fighting and an estimated 650 families have requested relocation to safer areas.
“However,” Dujarric said, “due to access restriction, hostilities and the indiscriminate use of weapons, the evacuation teams have only been able to respond to 15 percent of all requests. Further operations continue today. Families stranded inside the conflict areas not only fear for their safety but are also starting to run out of supplies.”
The spokesperson also reported that the World Health Organization has “deployed emergency medical teams to help hospitals cope with their caseloads and support surgical staff in collaboration with the Ministry of Health.”
The organization reportedly plans to deploy additional emergency teams to support first-line responders and is “activated contingency stocks which were strategically pre-positioned before the fighting began.”
A day earlier, following behind-closed-doors consultations of the Security Council on Libya in New York, Secretary-General António Guterres said it was still time “for a cessation of hostilities to take place, and to avoid the worse, which would be a dramatic bloody battle for Tripoli.”
Echoing the Secretary-General’s appeal to stop the fighting immediately, the UN top official in Libya Ghassan Salamé stressed that it is “a high time for the voices of reason to prevail and save Libya from the scourge of a bloody civil war.”
The UN Support Mission in Libya, headed by Salamé, “continues to work to de-escalate the military situation and support humanitarian assistance.”
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