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STORY: UN / SYRIA UPDATE
TRT: 02:20
SOURCE: UNIFEED-UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 10 FEBRUARY 2016, NEW YORK CITY
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1. Wide shot, exterior of the UN Headquarters
10 FEBRUARY 2016, NEW YORK CITY
2. Zoom in, New Zealand’s and Spain’s ambassadors arriving to stakeout
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Gerard van Bohemen, New Zealand’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations:
“It is sad that it is a case, but the Russian war air strikes have been a direct cause of this crisis around Aleppo. The particular point we draw attention to today, was the fact that two of the crossings into Turkey have been compromised as a result of those air strikes and we are very concerned about that situation. Stephen O’Brien said one of them have been reopened, the one that has been closed briefly, but for how long we don’t know, so clearly that is the situation that is of great concern.”
4. Med shot, New Zealand’s and Spain’s ambassadors at the stakeout
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Gerard van Bohemen, New Zealand’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations:
“We ask that serious considerations been given to humanitarian pause to enable assistance to go through, because it is clear that the aid is also not going through to Madaya and other besieged areas that need more aid and we also asked for more information about reports of cluster munition but we haven’t head back from.”
6. Pan left, Russian’s ambassador arriving at the stakeout
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Vitaly Churkin, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations:
“We are not about to be apologetic about what we are doing. We are acting in a very transparent manner, daily briefing are being conducted by our Ministry of Defence. We are present there legally, at invitation of the Syrian government and in contrast to what a so-called US led coalition is doing in Syria where they are acting outside of the international law and incidentally never telling anybody what exactly they are doing in Syria or in Iraq. What their targets are, what results of their campaigns are and also refusing our cooperation to fight terrorists on the ground.”
8. Pan left, Syrian ambassador arriving at the stakeout
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Bashar Jaafari, Permanent Representative of Syrian Arab Republic to the United Nations:
“They don’t address the humanitarian issue in Yemen, they don’t address it in Palestine, they don’t address it in Iraq. They have a full-fledged obsession about addressing the so called humanitarian situation in Syria.”
10. Wide shot, Jaafari at the stakeout
11. Zoom out, Jaafari leaving stakeout
After a closed session of the UN Security Council on the humanitarian situation in Syria, New Zealand’s ambassador told reporters “Russian war air strikes have been a direct cause of this crisis around Aleppo.”
On request of Spain and New Zealand, this morning (10 Feb) the Security Council held a closed meeting on the humanitarian situation in Syria after the recent fighting around Aleppo in northern Syria.
Talking to reporters after the meeting, Gerard van Bohemen, New Zealand’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations said “Russian war air strikes have been a direct cause of this crisis around Aleppo.”
Van Bohemen also said “We ask that serious considerations been given to humanitarian pause to enable assistance to go through.”
Also talking to reporters, Vitaly Churkin, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations said Russia “is not about to be apologetic ”about its actions in Syria.
He said “We are present there legally, at invitation of the Syrian government and in contrast to what a so-called US led coalition is doing in Syria where they are acting outside of the international law.”
Syrian ambassador Bashar Jaafari,said some Security Council Members "have a full-fledged obsession about addressing the so called humanitarian situation in Syria.”
Tens of thousands of Syrians have been displaced since the Syrian government backed by Russian air strikes launched an offensive in Aleppo area.
