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UN / LIBYA UPDATE
STORY: UN / LIBYA UPDATE
TRT: 2:00
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /NATS
DATELINE: 3 MAY 2019, NEW YORK CITY
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1. Exterior shot, UN Headquarters
3 MAY 2019, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, press room
3. Cutaway, reporters
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General:
“We continue to be concerned about the heavy fighting in southern Tripoli. There are reports of extensive use of airstrikes and rocket shelling causing more civilian casualties and destruction and forcing thousands more civilians from their homes.”
5. Cutaway, reporters
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General:
“On World Press Freedom Day, the UN Mission in Libya is expressing deep concern over the threats, incitement and violence Libyan journalists are increasingly facing since the outbreak of fighting in southern Tripoli. Two journalists were abducted yesterday. The Mission is also concerned about the increasing use of social media to incite violence and hatred.”
7. Cutaway, reporters
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General:
“As fighting continues, the International Organization for Migration says now that more than 50,000 people have now been displaced. Most are finding shelter with families or in other private arrangements, while 29 collective shelters are now in operation, housing an estimated 2,750 people. Humanitarians are providing assistance at these collective shelters, as well as other areas of displacement as access is allowed.”
9. Wide shot, press room
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General:
“More than 3,400 refugees and migrants are estimated to remain trapped in detention centres already exposed to, or in close proximity to, the ongoing fighting. The availability of food, water and healthcare has been severely restricted in these facilities for refugees and migrants. Some 32,000 people impacted by the crisis have been able to receive some form of humanitarian assistance to date.”
11. Wide shot, spokesperson at the podium
Briefing reporters in New York today (3 May) the spokesperson for the United Nations Secretary-General Stephane Dujarric said “there are reports of extensive use of airstrikes and rocket shelling causing more civilian casualties and destruction and forcing thousands more civilians from their homes.”
He underlined “we continue to be concerned about the heavy fighting in southern Tripoli.”
Dujarric also said “on World Press Freedom Day, the UN Mission in Libya is expressing deep concern over the threats, incitement and violence Libyan journalists are increasingly facing since the outbreak of fighting in southern Tripoli. Two journalists were abducted yesterday. The Mission is also concerned about the increasing use of social media to incite violence and hatred.”
Three weeks ago, a Libyan military commander Khalifa Haftar whose forces control eastern part of the country, launched an attack on the capital Tripoli, a seat of the UN-recognized Libyan government, displacing more than 50 000 people, according to the IOM.
Dujarric said, “Most are finding shelter with families or in other private arrangements, while 29 collective shelters are now in operation, housing an estimated 2,750 people.”
The spokesperson also said “more than 3,400 refugees and migrants are estimated to remain trapped in detention centres already exposed to, or in close proximity to, the ongoing fighting. The availability of food, water and healthcare has been severely restricted in these facilities for refugees and migrants.”
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