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STORY: UN / SAFER TANKER UPDATE
TRT: 01:02
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 17 JULY 2023, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT – NEW YORK CITY
1. Med shot, exterior, United Nations Headquarters
17 JULY 2023, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Dujarric at the podium
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“The UN-led project to prevent a massive oil spill from the decaying FSO Safer, which is as you know off in Hudaydah, off Yemen’s Red Sea coast, took a major step forward over the weekend, when the replacement vessel Nautica sailed from Djibouti en route to the Safer site. All technical preparations and agreements have been finalized.”
4. Med shot, journalists
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Once the replacement vessel arrives, the oil aboard the Safer will be pumped out in a ship-to-ship transfer that is expected to take about two weeks to complete. Achim Steiner, the UNDP’s Administrator said that with the Nautica on its way, we expect the removal of oil from the Safer to begin in the next week.”
6. Wide shot, Dujarric walks away
The UN-led project to prevent a massive oil spill from the decaying FSO Safer, which is off Yemen’s Red Sea coast, “took a major step forward over the weekend”, a UN spokesperson said.
Briefing journalists on Monday (17 July) in New York, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, Stéphane Dujarric, said that the replacement vessel Nautica "sailed from Djibouti en route to the Safer site".
He noted, “All technical preparations and agreements have been finalized.”
Dujarric continued, “Once the replacement vessel arrives, the oil aboard the Safer will be pumped out in a ship-to-ship transfer that is expected to take about two weeks to complete.”
The Spokesperson concluded, “we expect the removal of oil from the Safer to begin in the next week.”
