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STORY: UN / BURUNDI OCHA UNICEF
TRT: 1:41
SOURCE: UNIFEED-UNTV
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/NATS
DATELINE: 15 DECEMBER 2015, NEW YORK CITY - FILE
FILE – NEW YORK CITY
1. Exterior, United Nations Headquarters
15 DECEMBER 2015, NEW YORK CITY
2. Med shot, dais
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Afshan Khan, Director of Emergency Programmes for the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF):
“Ultimately, this political crisis is being fought on the backs of children, young people and women. We’ve seen an increase in growth in mobilizing youth to kill, maim and abduct and that’s a phenomenon that’s growing. I think in our sense then we very much call, echo the Secretary General’s call for all parties to uphold the rule of law, urge the authorities to help create conditions for a credible and inclusive dialogue that can address the deep political challenges facing the country.”
4. Med shot, journalists
5. SOUNDBITE (English) John Ging, Operations Director for the UN Office of the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA):
“But our real concern that we are as the High Commissioner for Human Rights said earlier today we’re on the cusp of a very dangerous situation in terms of the prospects for descending into an inter-ethnic conflict so again we’re all extremely concerned about that.”
6. Med shot, journalists
7. SOUNDBITE (English) John Ging, Operations Director for the UN Office of the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA):
“The government in my view is predominately relying on a security response to a political problem and that is not a solution. And in our dialogue with the government we were impressing upon them the need to focus on political solution which in the beginning is to have an inclusive dialogue which generates confidence among the population.”
8. Med shot, pull out to wide of press briefing room
Upon returning from a recent trip to Burundi, a top UNICEF official said, “Ultimately, this political crisis is being fought on the backs of children, young people and women.”
Briefing the press today (15 Dec) at UN Headquarters in New York, Afshan Khan, the Director of Emergency Programmes for the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said, “We’ve seen an increase in growth in mobilizing youth to kill, maim and abduct and that’s a phenomenon that’s growing. I think in our sense then we very much call, echo the Secretary General’s call for all parties to uphold the rule of law, urge the authorities to help create conditions for a credible and inclusive dialogue that can address the deep political challenges facing the country.”
Also briefing the press about his trip to Burundi, John Ging, the Operations Director for the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), said, “our real concern that we are, as the High Commissioner for Human Rights said earlier today, we’re on the cusp of a very dangerous situation in terms of the prospects for descending into an inter-ethnic conflict so again we’re all extremely concerned about that.”
Ging added, “The government in my view is predominately relying on a security response to a political problem and that is not a solution. And in our dialogue with the government we were impressing upon them the need to focus on political solution which in the beginning is to have an inclusive dialogue which generates confidence among the population.”
According to UNHCR, more than 200,000 people have fled to neighboring countries since 1 April 2015.