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STORY: UN / BACHELET COVID-19 BORDERS
TRT: 1:12
SOURCE: UNIFEED
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 15 APRIL 2020, NEW YORK CITY
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior UN headquarters
15 APRIL 2020, NEW YORK CITY
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“The High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet today urged countries in Latin America, and elsewhere in the world, to open up their borders to their own nationals stranded abroad, many of them with little or no access to healthcare. This comes in response to a weeks-long impasse that developed on the Bolivia-Chile border last month when Bolivia closed it borders and left many of its own nationals who were working abroad without the possibility of returning to their own country. Ms. Bachelet said that under international law, everyone has the right to return to their home – even during a pandemic and called on States to do all they can to ensure the safe, dignified and voluntary return, as well as sustainable reintegration of their own nationals. She also welcomed the cooperation and steps taken by Chile and Bolivia to end the impasse. The UN has been assisting the local authorities in Chile to provide basic supplies and services for the returning migrants, as well as assessing their needs and promoting their protection.”
The High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet today (15 Apr) urged countries in Latin America, and elsewhere in the world, to open up their borders to their own nationals stranded abroad, many of them with little or no access to healthcare.
The Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, Stephane Dujarric, said, “this comes in response to a weeks-long impasse that developed on the Bolivia-Chile border last month when Bolivia closed it borders and left many of its own nationals who were working abroad without the possibility of returning to their own country.”
Bachelet, Dujarric added, said that “under international law, everyone has the right to return to their home – even during a pandemic and called on States to do all they can to ensure the safe, dignified and voluntary return, as well as sustainable reintegration of their own nationals.”
The UN has been assisting the local authorities in Chile to provide basic supplies and services for the returning migrants, as well as assessing their needs and promoting their protection.
