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UN / AMOS LIBYA
STORY: UN / AMOS LIBYA
TRT: 2.28
SOURCE: UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 28 FEBRUARY 2011, NEW YORK CITY
RECENT 2011, UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
28 FEBRUARY 2011, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Valerie Amos enters Pres Conference room
3. Cutaway, journalists
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Valerie Amos, Emergency Relief Coordinator, United Nations:
“The primary concern is getting access particularly to Tripoli and the neighbouring area where the situation is extremely volatile. All the reports are that through the East supplies have managed to get in and the situation there has returned almost to normal from the reports that we are getting. We want to go in and do proper assessments. We are seeing of course terrible photographs in our television screens as people are fleeing, but we need to have a proper sense of what the needs are.”
5. Cutaway, journalists
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Valerie Amos, Emergency Relief Coordinator, United Nations:
“Other concerns are that other countries not close their borders. These are people in desperate need and it applies not only to Tunisia and Egypt and Niger, countries which border Libya, it also applies to European Union countries.”
7. Cutaway, journalists
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Valerie Amos, Emergency Relief Coordinator, United Nations:
“With respect to medical supplies the information that we are getting is that there are some shortages. We worry about the possibility of longer shortages with respect to food but that is not necessarily the most critical issue at this point in time.”
9. Cutaway, journalists
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Valerie Amos, Emergency Relief Coordinator, United Nations:
“Well I think that the thing that the people in Libya most want is a degree of security. I mean they are fleeing an extremely volatile, insecure situation and what you have is different parts of the country which is being controlled by different elements. We are seeing reports of over a thousand people who are said to have died as a result of insecurity problems in Tripoli.”
11. Cutaway, journalists
12. Wide shot, Valerie Amos leaves journalists behind
United Nations (UN) Emergency Relief Coordinator Valerie Amos said today that the primary concern in Libya was to be able to enter Tripoli and the neighbouring region where the situation was extremely volatile, to properly assess humanitarian needs.
Briefing reporters at headquarters in New York, she said she had received reports that supplies were entering into the east of the country, where the situation had been normalized, but that a proper assessment was needed.
Another concern was that other countries not close their borders to people fleeing Libya. “These are people in desperate need” she said, adding that it applied not only to Tunisia, Egypt and Niger which border Libya, but to European Union countries as well.
Amos said there were some shortages of medical supplies and there was concern about the possibility of longer shortages of food but that it was not “the most critical issue at this point in time.” What was most critical, she said, was security.
The Tunisian government said up to 40,000 people have arrived since mid-February, and UN refugee officials fear that much larger numbers of residents and migrant workers are trapped and unable to leave for safety.
On Saturday the Security Council voted unanimously to impose sanctions against the Libyan authorities, slapping the country with an arms embargo and freezing the assets of its leaders, while referring the ongoing violent repression of civilian demonstrators to the International Criminal Court (ICC).
The resolution called for safe passage of humanitarian and medical supplies, and humanitarian agencies and workers, into Libya, and demanded the immediately lifting of restrictions on the media.
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