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STORY: UN / KAZAKHSTAN UPDATE
TRT: 1:45
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NAT
DATELINE: 06 JANUARY 2022, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
RECENT – NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior, United Nations
06 JANUARY 2022, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, press briefing room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“I can tell you that we of course continue to follow the situation very closely. We’ve also been asked about contact the UN has had and I can tell you that there have been several contacts between the UN and the authorities in Kazakhstan, including a call this morning between the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Central Asia, Natalia Gherman, and the Deputy Foreign Minister of Kazakhstan, Akan Rakhmetullin. During these exchanges, appeals to exercise restraint, refrain from violence and promote dialogue to address the situation were reiterated by Natalia Gherman on behalf of the Secretary-General.”
4. Wide shot, press briefing room
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“In Kazakhstan, the country team has about 45 international staff in about 240 national staff, not including dependents. Also we have about 25 UN staff who are working sort of the back office for the UN Mission in Afghanistan. They're all safe and sound. There's a larger number of people who fall under the UN security arrangements and those are people working for various regional development banks and that would bring up to 101 internationals and 530 national staff but, everyone is safe and accounted for which is the important thing.”
6. Wide shot, press briefing room
The UN continues to follow the situation in Kazakhstan closely, and “there have been several contacts between the UN and the authorities in Kazakhstan, including a call this morning between the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Central Asia, Natalia Gherman, and the Deputy Foreign Minister of Kazakhstan, Akan Rakhmetullin,” said a UN Spokesperson.
Speaking to reporters today (06 Jan) in New York, UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said that during the exchanges between the UN and the authorities in Kazakhstan, “appeals to exercise restraint, refrain from violence and promote dialogue to address the situation were reiterated by Natalia Gherman on behalf of the Secretary-General.”
Asked about UN staff in the country, Dujarric said, “in Kazakhstan, the country team has about 45 international staff in about 240 national staff, not including dependents. Also we have about 25 UN staff who are working sort of the back office for the UN Mission in Afghanistan. They're all safe and sound.”
Dujarric continued, “there's a larger number of people who fall under the UN security arrangements and those are people working for various regional development banks and that would bring up to 101 internationals and 530 national staff but, everyone is safe and accounted for which is the important thing.”
