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DATELINE: 04 JANUARY 2014, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, UN Headquarters
04 JANUARY 2014, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, UNICEF Executive Director and European Union Commissioner for Development walk to the stakeout position
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3. Close up, camera
04 JANUARY 2014, NEW YORK CITY
4.SOUNDBITE (English) Anthony Lake, UNICEF Executive Director:
“I cannot state strongly enough – and I know the Commissioner strongly agrees- the urgency with which the international community must do everything it can to help to what is already a human tragedy and could be unfolding out into a human catastrophe.”
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5. Close up, reporter typing on laptop
04 JANUARY 2014, NEW YORK CITY
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Anthony Lake, UNICEF Executive Director:
“I was just there. I could go on and on with the stories and the things I saw. But I was in a community in a neighbourhood in Bossangoa, which had been burnt out; and I saw there on the ground the sandal of a child who had fled this. I have no idea now I stood there looking at the sandal wondering where that child had gone. What I do know is that we must act quickly to keep to many other children from fleeing to many other neighbourhoods in that country.”
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7. Close up, journalist writing on notepad
04 JANUARY 2014, NEW YORK CITY
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Andris Piebalgs, European Union Commissioner for Development:
“Part of it is related to support for African forces for security. So definitely it gives more chances really to provide humanitarian support and to reopen schools. There are some schools running, but we have a situation where most of the social infrastructure has been completed looted. So, it is basically started from scratch. We are preparing additional package as soon as the security situation allows.”
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9. Close up, reporter typing on cellphone
04 JANUARY 2014, NEW YORK CITY
10. Wide shot, UNICEF Executive Director and European Union Commissioner for Development walk away
UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake stressed the urgency with which the international community must do everything it can to help “what is already a human tragedy” and could unfold “into a human catastrophe” in Central African Republic.
Speaking to reporters along with Andris Piebalgs, European Union Commissioner for Development, Lake said “I was just there. I could go on and on with the stories and the things I saw. But I was in a community in a neighbourhood in Bossangoa, which had been burnt out; and I saw there on the ground the sandal of a child who had fled this.”
He added “I stood there looking at the sandal wondering where that child had gone. What I do know is that we must act quickly to keep to many other children from fleeing to many other neighbourhoods in that country.”
UNICEF Executive Director, who spent four days in January, underlined that children in the Central African Republic are in desperate need of protection and support.
During the press conference, the European Union (EU) Commissioner for Development, Andris Piebalgs, announced a major scaling up of partnership and funding (US$431 Millions) through UNICEF to speed progress in meeting child-related Millennium Development Goals in 15 countries.
Regarding the funds to help the population in the Central African Republic, Piebalgs said that “part of it is related to support for African forces for security. So definitely it gives more chances really to provide humanitarian support and to reopen schools.”
He added “there are some schools running, but we have a situation where most of the social infrastructure has been completed looted. So, it is basically started from scratch. We are preparing additional package as soon as the security situation allows.”
CAR has been thrown into turmoil since mainly Muslim Séléka rebels launched attacks a year ago and forced President François Bozizé to flee in March. A transitional government has since been entrusted with restoring peace and paving the way for democratic elections, but armed clashes have erupted again, notably between ex-Séléka and Christian anti-balaka militias.
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