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DATELINE: 30 SEPTEMBER 2025, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior, United Nations Headquarters
30 SEPTEMBER 2025, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, General Assembly Hall
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Annalena Baerbock, President of the General Assembly:
“Drastic cuts in international funding means essential services, from education to food to healthcare, are being cut when they're needed most. An estimated 1.1 million survivors of gender-based violence were left without critical support. This should put us to shame. This desperation is entirely preventable. As the Secretary-General stated during his recent visit, “Cox’s Bazar is Ground Zero for the impact of budget cuts.”
4. Wide shot, General Assembly Hall
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Courtenay Rattray, Chef de Cabinet of the Executive Office of the Secretary-General:
“I urge you to demand immediate action in three crucial areas: First, all parties must respect international humanitarian law and human rights law. The protection of civilians must be an immediate priority. Second, unhindered humanitarian access inside Myanmar must be guaranteed. No community should be cut off from food, medicine, and lifesaving assistance. Third, we need reinvigorated humanitarian and development investment. To meet basic needs. To help refugees transition from dependence to self-reliance. And to ease the strain on host communities.”
6. Wide shot, General Assembly Hall
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Courtenay Rattray, Chef de Cabinet of the Executive Office of the Secretary-General:
“There can be no durable peace without a genuine cessation of hostilities and a path to de-escalation and dialogue. The Rohingya, and all of Myanmar’s people, must be able to play a meaningful role in this process. They deserve justice, dignity, and a safe return home. I call on each of you to contribute to efforts for a comprehensive, innovative and concrete plan for a sustainable resolution of this crisis.”
8. Wide shot, General Assembly Hall
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Wai Wai Nu, Founder and Executive Director of the Women’s Peace Network-Myanmar:
“Ending impunity is the only way to end atrocities. Therefore, the international community must end this impunity that is at the root of all atrocities. Perpetrators of atrocities against civilians must be held accountable. Justice is not optional. It is the only deterrent. The only path to peace.”
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Julie Bishop, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General on Myanmar:
“Despite the generosity of donors, the reality is that the needs of the Rohingya in
Bangladesh are outpacing resources at an alarming rate. The 2025 Joint Response Plan for the Rohingya Humanitarian Crisis is currently only thirty-seven per cent funded. This is already having dire consequences for Rohingya in the camps, with critical cuts to their food rations and a sharp decline in access to education.”
11. Wide shot, General Assembly Hall
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees:
“We must do more, please. I call on all of you. Funding will save lives — there is no question about that. And in addition to funding, it is critical to offer solutions, in line with the pledges made at the last Global Refugee Forum. Solutions such as resettlement as well as other pathways to hope, through education or labour mobility. No assistance is too small, especially when the alternative leads to more instability in the region. And to more costly measures further down the line.”
13. Wide shot, General Assembly Hall
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Volker Türk, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights:
“Myanmar must respect in full the provisional measures imposed by the International Court of Justice to protect Rohingya lives. And there must be full accountability for the grave violations and abuses committed by the military, the Arakan Army and other parties. I repeat my call for the Security Council to refer the whole situation in Myanmar to the International Criminal Court.”
15. Wide shot, General Assembly Hall
Secretary-General António Guterres said that the Rohingya, and all of Myanmar’s people “deserve justice, dignity, and a safe return home,” reiterating “there can be no durable peace without a genuine cessation of hostilities and a path to de-escalation and dialogue.”
Courtenay Rattray, Chef de Cabinet of the Executive Office of the Secretary-General delivered the UN chief’s remarks at the High-level Conference on the Situation of Rohingya Muslims and Other Minorities in Myanmar today (30 Sep).
The Secretary-General called on the international community to “contribute to efforts for a comprehensive, innovative and concrete plan for a sustainable resolution of this crisis.”
Chef de Cabinet Courtenay Rattray reiterated the UN chief’s demand for immediate action in three crucial areas: “First, all parties must respect international humanitarian law and human rights law. The protection of civilians must be an immediate priority.”
Second, Rattray said, “unhindered humanitarian access inside Myanmar must be guaranteed. No community should be cut off from food, medicine, and lifesaving assistance.”
And the third, “we need reinvigorated humanitarian and development investment. To meet basic needs. To help refugees transition from dependence to self-reliance. And to ease the strain on host communities,” Chef de Cabinet Courtenay Rattray added.
For her role, President of the General Assembly Annalena Baerbock highlighted, “Drastic cuts in international funding means essential services, from education to food to healthcare, are being cut when they're needed most.”
She explained, “An estimated 1.1 million survivors of gender-based violence were left without critical support. This should put us to shame. This desperation is entirely preventable.”
The President of the General Assembly echoed the Secretary-General statement during his recent visit, “Cox’s Bazar is Ground Zero for the impact of budget cuts.”
Wai Wai Nu, Founder and Executive Director of the Women’s Peace Network-Myanmar also spoke at the event.
She stressed, “Ending impunity is the only way to end atrocities. Therefore, the international community must end this impunity that is at the root of all atrocities. Perpetrators of atrocities against civilians must be held accountable.”
“Justice is not optional. It is the only deterrent. The only path to peace,” Nu concluded.
“Despite the generosity of donors, the reality is that the needs of the Rohingya in Bangladesh are outpacing resources at an alarming rate,” Julie Bishop, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General on Myanmar told the General Assembly.
She noted that the 2025 Joint Response Plan for the Rohingya Humanitarian Crisis is currently only thirty-seven per cent funded. “This is already having dire consequences for Rohingya in the camps, with critical cuts to their food rations and a sharp decline in access to education,” the Special Envoy added.
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, called on the international community to do more, reiterating “funding will save lives — there is no question about that.”
And in addition to funding, Grandi noted that it is “critical” to offer solutions, “in line with the pledges made at the last Global Refugee Forum.”
“Solutions such as resettlement as well as other pathways to hope, through education or labour mobility. No assistance is too small, especially when the alternative leads to more instability in the region. And to more costly measures further down the line,” the High Commissioner for Refugee concluded.
UN rights chief Volker Türk called on Myanmar to “respect in full the provisional measures imposed by the International Court of Justice to protect Rohingya lives,” adding that there must be “full accountability for the grave violations and abuses committed by the military, the Arakan Army and other parties.”
Türk repeated his call for the Security Council to “refer the whole situation in Myanmar to the International Criminal Court.”
The objectives of the High-level Conference are to mobilize political support, sustain international attention on the crisis, review the overall crisis and address its root causes, including human rights issues, and share perspectives on the situation on the ground, including challenges faced by Rohingya and other minorities in Myanmar, as well as humanitarian issues within Myanmar and the region.
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