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TÜRKIYE / GRIFFITHS VISIT BORDER CROSSING
STORY: TÜRKIYE / GRIFFITHS EARTHQUAKE VISIT
TRT: 02:49
SOURCE: OCHA
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNOCHA ON SCREEN
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 12 FEBRUARY 2023, REYHANLY, TÜRKIYE
1. Various shots, operations at Reyhanly Transshipment Hub
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Martin Griffiths, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator:
“I'm here at the Bab-Al-Hawa. How a crossing point between Turkey over there behind us and northwest Syria. And what we're seeing here is a convoy of humanitarian aid. We have a daily convoy going through. We have about ten trucks in this one going through to provide for the urgent humanitarian needs of people in north west Syria, over 4 million of them who need our assistance and for whom the earthquake has been an extraordinary, devastating experience.”
3. Med shot, operations at the Transshipment Hub
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Martin Griffiths, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator:
“These trucks are a lifeline. We've been resuming operations here for the last four or five days, but ramping up the scale of it so that we can begin to meet the needs of those people.”
5. Various shots, trucks leaving the hub
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Martin Griffiths, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator:
“This is generosity tangibly seen as these brave people go through to provide aid to what is a war zone and what has been a war side for these many years. So for me, it's a huge privilege to see this, to witness the return of the international community, to stand by the people of Syria in this most tragic of times.”
7. Various shots, trucks leaving the hub
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Martin Griffiths, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator:
“We're going to be doing an appeal for a three month humanitarian phase for the earthquake response. We're going to push it out in the next day or two. It's going to require the kind of generosity from member states and individuals and the private sector that we have already seen in the international response to the earthquake in Turkey and elsewhere.”
Following the recent earthquakes that devastated the Türkiye-Syria border region, UN convoys with humanitarian supplies to north-west Syria have resumed and are scaling back up, United Nations humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths said today during a visit to the UN transshipment hub and the Bab al-Hawa border crossing.
Griffiths said, “We're seeing here is a convoy of humanitarian aid. We have a daily convoy going through. We have about ten trucks in this one going through to provide for the urgent humanitarian needs of people in north west Syria, over 4 million of them who need our assistance and for whom the earthquake has been an extraordinary, devastating experience.”
For the Under-Secretary-General, “these trucks are a lifeline.”
“We've been resuming operations here for the last four or five days, but ramping up the scale of it so that we can begin to meet the needs of those people,” explained Griffiths.
The humanitarian chief said that “this is generosity tangibly seen as these brave people go through to provide aid to what is a war zone and what has been a war side for these many years.”
He added, “So for me, it's a huge privilege to see this, to witness the return of the international community, to stand by the people of Syria in this most tragic of times.”
Griffiths also said that the UN is going to be doing an appeal for a three month humanitarian phase for the earthquake response and is going to push it out in the next day or two.
“It's going to require the kind of generosity from member states and individuals and the private sector that we have already seen in the international response to the earthquake in Turkey and elsewhere,” the Under-Secretary-General concluded.
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