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STORY: UN / WFP – SYRIA
TRT: 2.04
SOURCE: UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 9 JULY 2013, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
9 JULY 2013, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, dais
3. Wide shot, journalists
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Muhannad Hadi, World Food Programme (WFP) Emergency Coordinator for Syria:
“WFP needs, every week, 27 million US dollars to feed four million people inside Syria, and approximately three million people outside Syria. I will repeat this again; we have gotten to a stage if people inside Syria don’t get food from the World Food Programme, they will simply not eat.”
5. Wide shot, journalists
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Muhannad Hadi, World Food Programme (WFP) Emergency Coordinator for Syria:
“Half of the areas we reach is under the opposition’s control. This of course changes, maybe next moth it will be more, it will be less. But last month it was the first time fifty-fifty. Fifty percent of the aid WFP delivers goes to people who live in non-Government controlled areas. This is a challenge, by the way. It’s not easier to work in non-Government controlled areas nor it’s easier to work in Government controlled areas. Each part has its own challenges; each part has its own complexities.”
7. Med shot, journalists
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Muhannad Hadi, World Food Programme (WFP) Emergency Coordinator for Syria:
“We don’t know if there are more checkpoints planted on the way to the destination we are trying to reach. We don’t know if we are caught in crossfire. There are many things we don’t know what will happen tomorrow. That’s why we will have flexible plans. We are hoping that tomorrow we’ll be able to reach a good number of people, part of our plan, part of our monthly plan. We hope that tomorrow we will continue to deliver food aid to the three million people we intend to reach this month inside Syria, if not, we will have to try another day.”
9. Med shot, journalists
10. Wide shot, end of press conference
Speaking to reporters in New York, the World Food Programme (WFP) Emergency Coordinator for Syria, Muhannad Hadi, stressed today (9 July) that it is extremely important that aid continues to flow into Syria until the crisis is over, as there are many families inside the country that now depend entirely on UN assistance for food.
Hadi urged continued support, noting that WFP needs $27 million every week to assist 4 million people inside Syria and approximately 3 million in neighbouring countries.
He said the current situation is such that “if people inside Syria don’t get food from the World Food Programme, they will simply not eat.”
The Emergency Coordinator told reporters that for the first time this month “half of the areas we reach is under the opposition’s control.”
He said it was “not easier to work in non-Government controlled areas nor it’s easier to work in Government controlled areas” as “each part has its own challenges, each part has its own complexities.”
Hadi drew attention to the increasingly difficult conditions that his agency is facing, including multiple checkpoints and getting caught in crossfire.
He said there were “many things we don’t know what will happen tomorrow” but the Agency “will continue to deliver food aid to the three million people we intend to reach this month inside Syria, if not, we will have to try another day.”
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today appealed to all parties in Syria to put down their weapons during the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan, adding that this gesture could help build momentum towards peace.
UN agencies will continue their humanitarian support to those affected by the conflict during this period.
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