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STORY: UN/SYRIA HUMANITARIAN WRAP
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SOURCE; UNTV
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/NATS
DATELINE: 2 OCTOBER 2013, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior, United Nations headquarters
2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. Med shot, president of the Security Council Azerbaijani Amb Agshin Mehdiyev talking
4. Med shot, Amb Sylvie Lucas of Luxembourg listening
5. Med shot, Amb Gary Quinlan of Australia listening
6. Wide shot, Ambassadors Sylvie Lucas of Luxembourg and Gary Quinlan of Australia approaching microphone
7. Cutaway, journalist taking notes
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Ambassador Sylvie Lucas, Permanent Representative of Luxembourg to the United Nations:
“Now that we have been able to make progress on the chemical weapons issue we should not forget we also needed to do progress on the Humanitarian issue and that we should not forget that conflict is continuing, that the humanitarian situation is ever deteriorating.”
8. Cutaway, press
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Ambassador Gary Quinlan, Permanent Representative of Australia to the United Nations:
“One refugee is created in Syria every fifteen seconds. Since we’ve been speaking this morning there are another 11 refugees.”
10. Wide shot, British Ambassador Sir Mark Lyall Grant approaching microphone
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Ambassador Mark Lyall Grant, Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations:
“This PRST was agreed unanimously today and its aim is to facilitate access for humanitarian relief to all parts of Syria. It stresses in particular the ned for safe and unhindered access for all humanitarian workers.”
12. Wide shot, United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator Valerie Amos approaching microphone
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Valerie Amos, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator:
“This consensus statement clearly calls on all parties to do their utmost to end the violence and stop targeting civilians. It also reminds them that they must facilitate the swift provision of vital humanitarian aid and that there are serious consequences for violating international humanitarian and human rights law.”
14.Cutaway, journalist taking notes
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Valerie Amos, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator:
“I will not stop pressing the council to turn this statement it into a resolution but in the meantime we will use what is in the statement in the most positive way possible to make the changes on the ground that we need to speed up our operations.”
16. Wide shot, Syrian Ambassador Syrian Ambassador Bashar Ja'afari approaching microphone
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Ambassador Bashar Ja'afari, Permanent Representative of Syria to the United Nations:
“Some capitals are still against the holding of Geneva II conference. Then
you have the problem of who will represent the thousand of armed groups and terrorists groups including Al-Qaida operating in Syria. Who would hold these groups responsible and accountable to Geneva process? Then who would represent the so called Syrian oppositions in Geneva conference. If the government is there and it will be there who would be the counterpart of the Syrian government at this table of negotiations. So, L. Brahimi should first address these very serious concerns to those who are behind arming, supporting, and protecting the armed groups and the terrorists groups.”
FILE – UNHCR 15 MARCH 2013, TRIPOLI, LEBANON
21. Wide shot, refugees in a torn down building
22. Wide shot, refugees walking in front of makeshift shelters
23. Med shot, refugees drying clothes outside their makeshift shelter
24. Med shot, Syrian refugees inside garage
FILE – 10 MARCH 2013, NIZIP REFUGEE CAMP, TURKEY
25. Wide shot of Nizip Camp (10.03.2013, Nizip Refugee Camp, Turkey)
FILE – 18 JUNE 2013, JABER, JORDAN
26. Pan left, Refugee children waiting in the middle of the night
27. Med shot, Refugee children receiving drinks
FILE – 21 AUGUST 2013, KAWARGORST, IRAQ
28. Med shot, distribution of food items to refugees
29. Med shot, refugees receiving food items to refugees
Gravely concerned by the deepening humanitarian tragedy in Syria, the United Nations (UN) Security Council today (2 Oct) urged the Syrian government to immediately allow cross-border aid deliveries and called on all parties to the conflict to agree on humanitarian pauses in the fighting, including along “key routes” for relief convoys.
“The magnitude of the humanitarian tragedy caused by the conflict in Syria requires immediate action to facilitate safe and unhindered delivery of humanitarian assistance” across the entire country, the 15-member body said in a presidential statement (PRST) which also deplored the escalating violence that has already killed more than 100,000 people and driven some 6.5 million others from their homes.
Speaking to the press following the Security Council’s action, one of the sponsors of the statement, Ambassadors Sylvie Lucas of Luxembourg said that having reached an agreement on the chemical weapons issue and passing a Security Council resolution last week,“we should not forget that conflict is continuing that the humanitarian situation is ever deteriorating.”
Another co-sponsor of the statement,Australian Ambassador Gary Quinlan, said that current figures showed there are 6,000 new refugees every day, adding that, "one refugee is created in Syria every fifteen seconds.”
British Ambassador Sir Mark Lyall Grant, noting that the statement had passed unanimously, said that its aim was to facilitate access for humanitarian relief to all parts of Syria, stressing “the need for safe and unhindered access for all humanitarian workers.”
Valerie Amos, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator said that the statement, "clearly calls on all parties to do their utmost to end the violence and stop targeting civilians.”
Amos added that it also reminded the authorities in Syria of their obligations to facilitate the "swift provision of vital humanitarian aid and that there are serious consequences for violating international humanitarian and human rights law.”
She also said she would not “stop pressing” the Council to turn the statement it into a resolution.
Asked whether joint UN Arab League Envoy Lahkdar Brahimi should visit Damascus to facilite the Geneva II talks, Syrian Ambassador Bashar al Ja'afari said somec capitals were still "against" holdign Geneva II and "then you have the problem of who will represent the thousand of armed groups and terrorists groups including Al-Qaida operating in Syria."
The conflict had already created over 2 million refugees, almost 5 million internally displaced, close to 7 million in need of assistance.
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