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UN / SYRIA POLITICAL HUMANITARIAN
STORY: UN / SYRIA POLITICAL HUMANITARIAN
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SOURCE: UNIFEED
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LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / ARABIC / NATS
DATELINE: 25 OCTOBER 2022, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, UN Headquarters
25 OCTOBER 2022, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. Med shot, Syrian Ambassador Bassam Sabbagh
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Geir Pedersen, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria, United Nations:
“Over nearly 12 years of conflict, there is almost no indignity Syria’s women and girls have not suffered: poverty and malnutrition; detention, disappearance and abduction; sexual assault and rape; forced and early marriages; violence of multiple kinds when bearing children; denial of education and livelihoods. Women civil society activists are too often targeted by violence when attempting to engage in public life. Women political and civic leaders struggle to secure their rightful seat at negotiating tables.”
5. Wide shot, Council
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Geir Pedersen, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria, United Nations:
“We continue to advocate for quotas in Syrian political bodies of at least thirty percent. And we seek to create opportunities where issues of importance to women can be raised, including in the Constitutional Committee. I look forward to engaging the Women’s Advisory Board again here in Geneva next month.”
7. Wide shot, Council
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Geir Pedersen, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria, United Nations:
“Tragically, however, the political process has not so far delivered for the Syrian people, and they continue to suffer, not least from acute violence. Even as a strategic stalemate persists, the conflict remains very active across Syria.”
9. Wide shot, Council
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Reena Ghelani, Director for Operations and Advocacy, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA):
“The conflict continues to cause civilian death and injury, primarily along front lines. As the Special Envoy already described, the ongoing active fighting and the impact on civilians and civilian structures are continuing. According to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, at least 92 civilians were killed and 80 were injured in August and September alone. Twenty-seven of those civilians were killed by explosive remnants of war. Syria reports some of the largest numbers of victims of explosive ordnance worldwide. Two out of three victims are children. And the deaths and injuries do not stop when active fighting stops. These weapons pose a lasting, deadly threat to civilians.”
11. Wide shot, Council
12. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Bassam Sabbagh, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Syrian Arab Republic:
“Any illegitimate military presence on Syrian soil is a breach of the UN Charter and violation of international law. It must come to an end immediately without any preconditions. Moreover, countering terrorism in all its forms and eradicating it completely cannot be achieved without full cooperation and coordination with a Syrian state.”
13. Wide shot, Council
Advocating for quotas for women in Syrian political bodies “of at least thirty percent,” the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria, Geir Pedersen, said in over nearly 12 years of conflict, “there is almost no indignity Syria’s women and girls have not suffered.”
Briefing the Security Council today (25 Oct), Pedersen said, “poverty and malnutrition; detention, disappearance and abduction; sexual assault and rape; forced and early marriages; violence of multiple kinds when bearing children; denial of education and livelihoods. Women civil society activists are too often targeted by violence when attempting to engage in public life. Women political and civic leaders struggle to secure their rightful seat at negotiating tables.”
He said, “we seek to create opportunities where issues of importance to women can be raised, including in the Constitutional Committee,” adding that he looked forward to engaging the Women’s Advisory Board next month in Geneva.
The Special Envoy said, “tragically” the Syrian political process “has not so far delivered for the Syrian people, and they continue to suffer, not least from acute violence.”
Even as a strategic stalemate persists, he stressed, “the conflict remains very active across Syria.”
In her briefing to the Council, the Director for Operations and Advocacy at the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Reena Ghelani, said, “the conflict continues to cause civilian death and injury, primarily along front lines.”
Ghelani noted that “at least 92 civilians were killed and 80 were injured in August and September alone,” twenty-seven of them killed by explosive remnants of war.
She said, “Syria reports some of the largest numbers of victims of explosive ordnance worldwide. Two out of three victims are children. And the deaths and injuries do not stop when active fighting stops. These weapons pose a lasting, deadly threat to civilians.”
For his part, Syrian Ambassador Bassam Sabbagh told the Council that “any illegitimate military presence on Syrian soil is a breach of the UN Charter and violation of international law.”
Sabbagh said this “must come to an end immediately without any preconditions.”
Moreover, he added, “countering terrorism in all its forms and eradicating it completely cannot be achieved without full cooperation and coordination with a Syrian state.”
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