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STORY: GENEVA / SYRIA EGELAND
TRT: 03:25
SOURCE: UNTV CH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 6 APRIL 2017 GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
1. Exterior, Palais des Nations
2. Wide shot, press stakeout
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Jan Egeland, Special Advisor to the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria:
“There are conflicting reports emerging about what caused which effects in this area. So we need to know the facts. Number two, we need to come back to protection of civilians, I also think that is something that is now sinking in. We are now in the 7th war year, it has lasted much longer than the Second World War, six billion dollars were raised for humanitarian relief in Brussels. We need to prevent humanitarian suffering. I hope that this is a watershed moment, I hope, and with all of these world leaders saying that they have again woken up to the suffering of the civilians that we see every single day. I hope it is real rebirth really for diplomacy, for humanitarian and political. I will continue working, we have not the luxury to look away.”
4. Close up, staff of Syria Special Envoy
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Jan Egeland, Special Advisor to the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria: “We need a 72-hours ceasefires in the areas where the battle is now raging, raging among the civilians and against the civilians.”
6. Close up, camera man and camera woman
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Jan Egeland, Special Advisor to the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria:
“A war when more children and women die than grown armed men is a very dirty war. A war where children suffocate to death because of toxic chemicals is a very very dirty war.”
8. Wide shot, journalists
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Jan Egeland, Special Advisor to the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria:
“This is not a story of an operation that it not succeeded due to tsunamis or mudslides or national disasters or lack of global generosity. Those are other places. This is a story of armed men supported by powerful men outside that sabotage, block, deny humanitarian access while the civilian population is attacked, gassed and bombed.”
10. Close up, Photographer
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Jan Egeland, Special Advisor to the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria:
“What I do welcome is a renewed interest from the United States to focus on the carnage in Syria, we need our co-chairs which are Russia and the United States still, to be equally seized where the situation of the Syrian civilians. When they were such focusing last year, we had progress.”
12. Various shots, presser
Commenting on the alleged chemical attack in Syria, the UN Special Advisor Jan Egeland told reporters in Geneva “there are conflicting reports emerging about what caused which effects in this area. So we need to know the facts.”
Following today’s (5 Apr) weekly Syria humanitarian meeting of the International Syria Support Group (ISSG) in Geneva where participants appealed for a re-birth of an effective humanitarian diplomacy in the absence of a lasting cease-fire in the country, Egeland said “I also think that is something that is now sinking in. We are now in the 7th war year, it has lasted much longer than the Second World War. Six billion dollars were raised for humanitarian relief in Brussels. We need to prevent humanitarian suffering.”
He added, “ I hope that this is a watershed moment, I hope, and with all of these world leaders saying that they have again woken up to the suffering of the civilians that we see every single day. I hope it is real rebirth really for diplomacy, for humanitarian and political. I will continue working, we have not the luxury to look away.”
Egeland pointed out that the UN had called on the United States, the Russian Federation and the Astana guarantors Russia, Turkey and Iran to push for 72-hour humanitarian ceasefires. He said, “We need a 72-hours ceasefires in the areas where the battle is now raging, raging among the civilians and against the civilians.”
According to the UN Special Advisor, in eastern Ghouta - within an hour drive from Damascus center-, there are now 400,000 people suffering shortage of medical supplies, their hospitals have been bombed and they are running out of food and other supplies.
An estimated 4.7 million people are trapped in besieged and hart-to-reach places inside Syria, after more than six years of war. According to Egeland, the only solution to the war is "a negotiated political settlement".
The UN humanitarian adviser said that “a war when more children and women die than grown armed men is a very dirty war. A war where children suffocate to death because of toxic chemicals is a very very dirty war.”
Egeland added,“this is not a story of an operation that it not succeeded due to tsunamis or mud slides or national disasters or lack of global generosity. Those are other places. This is a story of armed men supported by powerful men outside that sabotage, block, deny human access while the civilian population is attacked, gazed and bombed”.
Although Egeland expressed hope that 2017 will be the year of diplomacy of the 6 year old war. He recalled that more than 300 medical facilities were attacked last year and he expressed his concern saying that this year might be equally bad. Egeland also said, “I do welcome a renewed interest from the United States to focus on the carnage in Syria. We need our co-chairs which are Russia and the United States still, to be equally seized with the situation of the Syrian civilians. When they were focusing last year, we had progress.”
