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GENEVA / SYRIA
STORY: GENEVA / SYRIA
TRT: 2.33
SOURCE: CH UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 7 JUNE 2013, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / FILE
FILE – RECENT, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
1. Wide shot, Palais des Nations
7 JUNE 2013, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
2. Med shot, dais
3. Close up, journalists
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Valerie Amos, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator:
"We are asking for 4.4 billion dollars for the whole of 2013."
5. Med shot, journalists
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Valerie Amos, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator:
"We estimate that 6.8 million people now need urgent help. That is 1 in 3 Syrians in need of urgent humanitarian assistance. And between January and April the number of people displaced in Syria has more than doubled."
7. Med shot, journalists
8. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, UN High Commissioner for Refugees:
"The problem is if this money is not spent catering for the humanitarian needs of this population, the consequences in increased instability in the region will have a much higher cost."
9. Wide shot, dais
10. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, UN High Commissioner for Refugees:
"It represents what the Americans spend in ice cream in 32 days. It represents what the Australians spend in overseas travel in 32 weeks. It represents what German drivers spend on petrol in six weeks. I don't recall any bail out of any average dimension bank in the western world that has not cost 5, 6, 7 or 10 times more. So, what we are asking for is indeed massive from the point of view of what is normally the support given by the international community to humanitarian needs. But it is really, it is really very little compared to what is spent on other purposes in other parts of the world."
11. Med shot, journalists
12. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, UN High Commissioner for Refugees:
"This is not only a humanitarian need. To support the people suffering enormously inside Syria, and to support the refugees outside is also a key instrument to stabilise the region, to avoid this conflict to become a much more dramatic regional one. It is not only a matter of generosity; it is essentially, for the international community, a matter of enlightened self-interest."
13. Wide shot, table of journalists
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Valerie Amos, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator:
"I don't think that Syria needs more weapons and more war. What I think Syrians and Syria needs is peace, stability and security."
15. Tilt up, conference room
The United Nations has launched the largest appeal in its history, seeking Five billion US dollars for humanitarian aid to Syria. It estimates more than 10 million Syrians, half the population, will need help by the end of the year.
Speaking at the launch of the appeal at the UN headquarters in Geneva, United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator Valerie Amos said “we estimate that 6.8 million people now need urgent help. That is 1 in 3 Syrians in need of urgent humanitarian assistance. And between January and April the number of people displaced in Syria has more than doubled."
The UN expects the number of refugees, currently more than 1.5 million, to leap to nearly 3.5 million by the end of 2013.
Antonio Guterres, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), speaking to journalists said "the problem is, if this money is not spent catering for the humanitarian needs of this population, the consequences in increasing stability in the region will have a much higher cost."
He added that “funding Syria's humanitarian needs is a matter not only of generosity but enlightened self interest."
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