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STORY: GENEVA / SYRIA DE MISTURA EGELAND
TRT: 1:38
SOURCE: UNTV CH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 25 AUGUST 2016, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
RECENT - GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
1. Wide shot, Palais des Nations exterior
25 AUGUST 2016, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
2. Med shot, de Mistura and Egeland
3. SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) Staffan de Mistura, United Nations Special Envoy for Syria:
“Those meetings that are taking place outside this office here in Geneva are going to have an impact certainly on the way we will be, and I plan, to present what are the political initiatives of the UN in order to relaunch the political process on Syria”.
4. Medium shot, videographers
5. SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) Jan Egeland, Special Advisor to the Special Envoy for Syria:
“First, a lifeline to eastern Aleppo going cross border from Turkey; and initially we would be ready in the first 48 hour weekly pause to have two convoys of 20 trucks each that would carry enough food for 80,000 people in eastern Aleppo.”
6. Med shot, Staffan de Mistura and Jan Egeland at podium
7. SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) Jan Egeland, Special Advisor to the UN Special Envoy for Syria:
“To use the 48 hours pause would be to have a cross-line repair of the electrical system which is stationed in the disputed southern part of Aleppo. That electrical plant is serving 1.8 million people with the daily electrical needs, even more importantly the pumping stations pumping water to 1.8 million people in east and west”.
8. Zoom out, Staffan de Mistura and Jan Egeland leaving podium
United Nations (UN) Envoy Staffan de Mistura said the talks between the United States and Russia on Syria set to take place tomorrow would “certainly” have an impact on the “political initiatives of the UN in order to relaunch the political process” to end the conflict in the country.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergej Lavrov and United States Secretary of State John Kerry are set to meet Friday in Geneva to discuss the Syrian conflict. Speaking to the press in Geneva today (25 Aug), de Mistura said he did not want to comment on those discussions.
De Mistura’s Special Advisor Jan Egeland said humanitarian convoys were ready to depart to Aleppo with Russia agreeing to a 48-hour humanitarian pause in the city. However, he said the convoys were waiting for security guarantees from other parties on the ground. He said for the first “48-hour weekly pause” the UN was prepared to send two 20-truck convoys to eastern Aleppo carrying enough food for 80,000 people.
Egeland said the pause would also be used to repair the electrical system in the southern part of the city. The plant serves 1.8 million people with their daily electrical needs and is used to pump water to both the eastern and western part of the city.
