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DATELINE: 27 APRIL 2023, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
RECENT - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior, United Nations Headquarters
27 APRIL 2023, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Geir Pedersen, United Nations Special Envoy for Syria:
“In the tragic aftermath of the earthquakes, we have seen renewed diplomatic attention on Syria. Diplomacy is continuing involving the Astana players and the Syrian Government. And there have been new openings of engagement between Arab countries and the Syrian Government.”
4. Wide shot, Security Council
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Geir Pedersen, United Nations Special Envoy for Syria:
“Let me register my concern that the brief calm after the earthquakes has been further eroded. Violent incidents have been increasing in the north-west, with ever-more regular shelling and rocket fire across front-lines involving pro-Government forces, armed opposition forces as well as listed terrorist group HTS who have announced further cross-line raids on Government positions.”
6. Wide shot, Security Council
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Geir Pedersen, United Nations Special Envoy for Syria:
“Ultimately, we need a nationwide ceasefire and a coordinated approach to countering listed terrorist groups, in line with international law.”
8. Med shot, Council members
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Lisa Doughten, Director, Humanitarian Financing and Resource Mobilization Division, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA):
“ Even before the earthquake, 15.3 million people—more than half of the total population—required humanitarian assistance and protection support. This number, I fear, only stands to grow. Mr. President, The protection needs provoked by the earthquakes are enormous. They sent thousands of people seeking refuge, with many taking temporary shelter in schools, mosques, and neighbors’ homes.”
10. Med shot, Doughten speaking
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Lisa Doughten, Director, Humanitarian Financing and Resource Mobilization Division, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA):
“Since January 2022, almost 500 early recovery projects have been implemented across all parts of Syria, the vast majority under Syria Humanitarian Response Plans. The total funding received for these projects exceeds USD 640 million, an almost USD 80 million increase since February.”
12. Med shot, Council members
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Lisa Doughten, Director, Humanitarian Financing and Resource Mobilization Division, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA):
“Sustained support—from donors, authorities on the ground, Member States, and this Council—remains essential to keep pace with the humanitarian needs of today, and even more so, those of tomorrow.”
14. Wide shot, Security Council
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Bassam Sabbagh, Permanent Representative of Syria to the United Nations:
“I would like to refer to the continued attempts by some countries to interfere in the internal affairs of Syria. The latest attempt was an attempt made by a group of countries to impose a mechanism a new mechanism those countries are claiming that this mechanism would clarify the fate of missing persons in Syria. They're relying on lies propagated by the United States and their Western allies. My country has expressed its rejection of the establishment of any mechanism that does not serve the best interests of the Syrian people.”
16. Wide shot, Security Council
The UN Special Envoy for Syria, Geir Pedersen, said, “In the tragic aftermath of the earthquakes, we have seen renewed diplomatic attention on Syria. Diplomacy is continuing involving the Astana players and the Syrian Government.”
Briefing the Security Council today (27 Apr) in New York, Pedersen said that there have been “new openings of engagement” between Arab countries and the Syrian Government.
He also said, “Let me register my concern that the brief calm after the earthquakes has been further eroded.”
Pedersen explained, “Violent incidents have been increasing in the north-west, with ever-more regular shelling and rocket fire across front-lines involving pro-Government forces, armed opposition forces as well as listed terrorist group HTS who have announced further cross-line raids on Government positions.”
He stressed, “Ultimately, we need a nationwide ceasefire and a coordinated approach to countering listed terrorist groups, in line with international law.”
Lisa Doughten, Director, Humanitarian Financing and Resource Mobilization Division, on behalf Of Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Martin Griffiths, said, “Even before the earthquake, 15.3 million people—more than half of the total population—required humanitarian assistance and protection support. This number, I fear, only stands to grow.”
She continued, “The protection needs provoked by the earthquakes are enormous. They sent thousands of people seeking refuge, with many taking temporary shelter in schools, mosques, and neighbors’ homes.”
Doughten noted, “Since January 2022, almost 500 early recovery projects have been implemented across all parts of Syria, the vast majority under Syria Humanitarian Response Plans. The total funding received for these projects exceeds USD 640 million, an almost USD 80 million increase since February.”
Doughten also said, “Sustained support—from donors, authorities on the ground, Member States, and this Council—remains essential to keep pace with the humanitarian needs of today, and even more so, those of tomorrow.”
Bassam Sabbagh, the Permanent Representative of Syria to the UN, said, “I would like to refer to the continued attempts by some countries to interfere in the internal affairs of Syria.”
He continued, “The latest attempt was an attempt made by a group of countries to impose a mechanism a new mechanism those countries are claiming that this mechanism would clarify the fate of missing persons in Syria.”
The Permanent Representative added, “They're relying on lies propagated by the United States and their Western allies.
Sabbagh concluded, “My country has expressed its rejection of the establishment of any mechanism that does not serve the best interests of the Syrian people.”
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