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STORY: UN / DE MISTURA SYRIA
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SOURCE: UNIFEED-UNTV / FILE
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 3 NOVEMBER 2014, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE - UNHCR – 25, 26 SEPTEMBER 2014, URFA, SURUÇ, TURKEY
1. Various shots, Syrian refuges crossing into Turkey
3 NOVEMBER 2014, NEW YORK CITY
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Staffan de Mistura, UN Special Envoy for Syria:
“I saw a feeling of despair and of tiredness. Three and a half years, 200,000 people killed, four million refugees, and the region all being affected by it. And therefore, the feeling was: Anything but let’s stop this carnage. Anything, but try to give us some light, rather than having a standstill from all sides.”
FILE - UNHCR – 25, 26 SEPTEMBER 2014, URFA, SURUÇ, TURKEY
3. Various shots, Syrian refugees crossing into Turkey
3 NOVEMBER 2014, NEW YORK CITY
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Staffan de Mistura, UN Special Envoy for Syria:
“The new plan is to try to identify some areas, where we can freeze the conflict. Freeze between the two sides. Normally, it’s the government and the opposition. In one or two cases, it’s even three sides, with ISIS –Da’esh- ISIL, or whatever you want to call it, this terror organization, being very close to it. That’s why the classical example of Aleppo, which is here and you can see the black spot being Da’esh –ISIL- getting close, but this city has been now in a stalemate between the opposition and the government bombing and the horror has been taking place now for months and months. If we can freeze that and show that at least Aleppo can become an area where we can provide some better lives for theses citizens, then the focus can be –as it should be- on ISIS –Da’esh-.”
FILE - UNHCR – 25, 26 SEPTEMBER 2014, URFA, SURUÇ, TURKEY
5. Various shots, Syrian refugees
3 NOVEMBER 2014, NEW YORK CITY
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Staffan de Mistura, UN Special Envoy for Syria:
“This conflict, which has gone on for too long has various dimensions. A local, a regional and a global one; and everyone seems to be unfortunately involved, hopefully - in the future - constructively. At the moment, not necessarily. So, by talking to everyone in the region and outside I was able to have an idea of what is their own vision of the issue of the Syrian conflict in light of this new element, which no one has seen coming on the horizon, which is the threatening of ISIS / ISIL, and in that sense it was very helpful.”
FILE - UNHCR – 25, 26 SEPTEMBER 2014, URFA, SURUÇ, TURKEY
7. Various shots, Syrian refugees
The UN Envoy for Syria said the people of that country are tired and desperate after more than three years of civil war.
Staffan de Mistura has recently wrapped up a 40-day visit to the region, in his capacity as Special Envoy.
In an interview at United Nations Headquarters, he said that after three and a half years of war, 200,000 people killed, four million refugees, and the region all being affected by it, “the feeling was: Anything but let’s stop this carnage. Anything, but try to give us some light, rather than having a standstill from all sides.”
In recent months a new terrorist threat has emerged with the appearance of the group ISIL, also known as ISIS.
Regarding his plan of action presented recently to the Security Council, de Mistura said “the new plan is to try to identify some areas, where we can freeze the conflict. Freeze between the two sides. Normally, it’s the government and the opposition. In one or two cases, it’s even three sides, with ISIS –Da’esh- ISIL, or whatever you want to call it, this terror organization, being very close to it.”
He added “that’s why the classical example of Aleppo, which is here and you can see the black spot being Da’esh –ISIL- getting close, but this city has been now in a stalemate between the opposition and the government bombing and the horror has been taking place now for months and months. If we can freeze that and show that at least Aleppo can become an area where we can provide some better lives for theses citizens, then the focus can be –as it should be- on ISIS –Da’esh-.”
Asked about his trips to Russian and Iran, the UN Envoy for Syria noted that the conflict has been going on various levels, namely local, regional and a global one.
He said “everyone seems to be unfortunately involved, hopefully - in the future - constructively. At the moment, not necessarily. So, by talking to everyone in the region and outside I was able to have an idea of what is their own vision of the issue of the Syrian conflict in light of this new element, which no one has seen coming on the horizon, which is the threatening of ISIS / ISIL, and in that sense it was very helpful.”
