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STORY: UN / KOBLER LIBYA
TRT: 01:21
SOURCE: UNIFEED-UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 02 MARCH 2016, NEW YORK CITY / RECENT
RECENT - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior, UN headquarter
02 MARCH 2016, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Kobler at podium
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Martin Kobler Special Representative and Head of the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL):
“I’m convinced that 95 percent of the Libyan population really are behind the agreement, behind the government of national unity because they are tired. They are sick and tired of having no electricity, of having children being kidnapped on the way to school and having an insecure situation. Now, and those who are politically responsible, they should really listen to the voices of their population. It’s important that they come to grips now.”
4. Wide shot, Kobler at podium,
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Martin Kobler Special Representative and Head of the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL):
“The political process is slow like a snail. The expansion of the Daesh and I think that we all agree in the international community that the Daesh must be, must be fought with military means. There is no negotiations with Daesh, enar al shariah, al-quaida groups it has to be fought with military means and it is expanding rapidly. It’s expanding to the south, there are (bridgeheads) in the south, and the terrorist organizations in Niger and Chad, they are already waiting until they team up with those coming from the north. Now, this has to stop.”
6. Med shot, Kobler walking away
The United Nations (UN) special envoy for Libya said that he was “convinced” that 95 percent of the Libyan population are behind the formation of a new government of national unity “because they are tired.”
Speaking to reporters today (2 Mar) outside of the Security Council following a briefing on Libya, he said that the people are “sick and tired of having no electricity, of having children being kidnapped on the way to school and having an insecure situation. Now, and those who are politically responsible, they should really listen to the voices of their population. It’s important that they come to grips now.”
Asked about ongoing US strikes in Libya, he said that the political process “is slow like a snail, and that the expansion of the Daesh “must be, must be fought with military means.”
UNSMIL was established in 2011 by the UN Security Council at the request of the Libyan authorities following six months of armed conflict to support the country’s new transitional authorities in their post-conflict efforts.
Libya is a country of six million people, with significant resources. But, across the country, the UN estimates that 2.4 million individuals are in need of some form of humanitarian assistance. In addition, more than 40 per cent of the health facilities in Libya are not functioning, and over one million children under the age of five are at risk of being affected by a vaccine shortage.
