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STORY: UN / JOHN GING
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SOURCE: UNTV
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LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 28 MARCH 2012, UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS
FILE – 2011, UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS, NEW YORK
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations Headquarters
28 MARCH 2013, NEW YORK
2. Wide shot, Martin Nesirsky, Spokesperson of the Secretary-General, and John Ging, Director of Operations, OCHA, approach the conference table
3. Med shot, reporter
4. SOUNDBITE (English) and John Ging, Director of Operations, OCHA:
“In Rakhine State [in Myanmar], as you know, there are 127,000 people still displaced there from last year’s violence in June and October, which resulted in the deaths of 167,000 people and 223,000 injuries. 10,000 private, public and religions buildings were destroyed at that time.”
5. Cutaway, med shot, reporter
6. SOUNDBITE (English) and John Ging, Director of Operations, OCHA:
“We have an additional concern now regarding 24,000 of those that have been displaced in two camps which are effectively in paddy fields. And in the next two months, we expect that those fields will be completely submerged under water. So a solution needs to be found to relocate those people, and also to see the return and the freedom of movement for all of the IDPs so that they can begin to recover their lives and their livelihoods.”
7. Cutaway, med shot of Ging and Nesirsky
8. SOUNDBITE (English) and John Ging, Director of Operations, OCHA:
“The humanitarian appeal for Rakhine State seeks $67.6 million and today we have only received $39 million of that. In this regards, I raised with the government the offer of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation to be engaged, and to help, including with funding. This followed a recent visit that I made to their leadership in Jeddah [headquarters city of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.] They are very conscious of the sensitivities, and their offer of assistance is to all communities.”
9. Cutaway, med shot, journalist
10. SOUNDBITE (English) and John Ging, Director of Operations, OCHA:
“I visited the camps [in the southern island of Mindanao, Philippines]. There’s a really excellent, excellent response, mobilized by the local and central governments, supported by the international community. I have to say in all of the countries I have visited in this past year, this stands out as a model of best practice where the government and the international community are partnering in a very effective way.”
11. Cutaway, med shot, journalist
12. SOUNDBITE (English) and John Ging, Director of Operations, OCHA:
“The major concern is of course that it [the situation in Mindanao, Philippines] not fall off the international radar screen. Their appeal for $112 million is only funded to the tune of 34%, so we’ve only received $37.5 million. And I am encouraging the donor community, in spite of all of the other demands that they have on them not to forgot the people who have suffered incredibly due to this national disaster and where we are making a very, very real difference, and a substantial difference, through the effort that is underway.”
13. Med shot of Ging and Nesirsky
Briefing reporters in New York, John Ging, Director of Operations for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), expressed today [28 March] concern for 24,000 displaced people living in two paddy fields in Myanmar that were about to be submerged under water.
Returning from a four day trip to Myanmar and the Philippines, Ging said the 24,000 people affected were among the 127,000 people in western Myanmar who had to flee inter-communal violence.
Ging also appealed the international community not to forget the 800,000 displaced victims from last year’s Typhoon Bopha, in Mindanao, Philippines, where the local and national government, together with UN agencies and humanitarian partners, were effectively partnering together to address the needs of the displaced population.
In western Myanmar, inter-communal violence broke out eight months ago in the state of Rakhine, between Rakhine Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims, leaving, according to Ging, 127,000 people displaced, and 167,000 people dead.
Of those displaced, Ging said that of “additional concern” are the 24,000 people living in two camps “that are effectively in paddy fields” that “will be completely submerged under water” in the next two months.
He said that “a solution needs to be found to relocate those people, and also to see the return and the freedom of movement for all of the IDPs so that they can begin to recover their lives and their livelihoods.”
Out of an appeal of $67.6 million for Rakhine State, Ging said that only $39 million had been received.
In regards to the situation in the Philippines, where a typhoon hit the southern island of Mindanao, in the deadliest storm anywhere in the world of 2012, Ging said that about 800,000 people remain displaced.
He praised the “excellent response” from the local and national government, who together with OCHA and humanitarian partners were making a difference.
He said that of all the countries he had visited in the past year, “this stands out as a model of best practice where the government and the international community are partnering in a very effective way.”
He added that a “major concern” was that the situation in Mindanao “not fall off the international radar screen.”
SOUNDBITE (English) and John Ging, Director of Operations, OCHA:
“The major concern is of course that it not fall off the international radar screen. Their appeal for $112 million is only funded to the tune of 34%, so we’ve only received $37.5 million. And I am encouraging the donor community, in spite of all of the other demands that they have on them not to forgot the people who have suffered incredibly due to this national disaster and where we are making a very, very real difference, and a substantial difference, through the effort that is underway.”
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