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STORY: UN / MYANMAR PRESS ENCOUNTERS
TRT: 02:51
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 05 FEBRUARY 2024, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – NEW YORK CITY
1. Med shot, United Nations flag
05 FEBRUARY 2024, NEW YORK CITY
2. Pan left, Myanmar’s Representative walking to stakeout
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Kyaw Moe Tun, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Myanmar:
“Three years after the illegal military coup in 2021 the people of Myanmar have never, never stopped, showing their determination against the military dictatorship.”
4. Close up, cameraman, camera
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Kyaw Moe Tun, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Myanmar:
“We need an enforceable resolution building on the resolution 2669. The military control continues using fighter jets and helicopters to conduct aerial attacks on civilian areas including schools, hospitals, and religious buildings.”
6. Close up, cameraman, camera
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Kyaw Moe Tun, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Myanmar:
“Our revolution is a homegrown, people-centered, and people-oriented one, but we need help from the international community. Coordinator concrete actions both from the Security Council and individual member states are needed immediately.”
8. Pan right, Myanmar’s Representative leaving to stakeout
9. Wide shot, delegates at stakeout
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Barbara Woodward, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, United Kingdom:
“The situation in the country remains dire. We strongly condemn the ongoing violence harming civilians, including the military’s continued use of indiscriminate air strikes.”
11. Close up, camera
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Barbara Woodward, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, United Kingdom:
“Three years in, more than 18 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance, and 2.6 million have been and remain displaced from their homes. We reiterate the Council’s repeated call for full, rapid, safe, and unimpeded humanitarian access to all people in need.”
13. Close up, camera
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Barbara Woodward, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, United Kingdom:
“Rohingya, who have faced systematic discrimination for decades, continue to be disproportionately affected by the conflict.”
15. Med shot, cameraman, camera
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Barbara Woodward, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, United Kingdom:
“We demand an immediate end to all forms of violence and urge restraint and de-escalation of tensions. We continue to urge the Myanmar military to immediately release all arbitrarily detained prisoners, including President Win Myint and State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi. We urge all parties to respect human rights, fundamental freedoms, the rule of law, and the democratic will and interests of the people of Myanmar.”
17. Pan right, delegates leaving stakeout
Ahead of today's (5 Feb) Security Council meeting on Myanmar, the Permanent Representative of Myanmar, Kyaw Moe Tun, stated, “Our revolution is a homegrown, people-centered, and people-oriented one, but we need help from the international community."
He added, "Coordinator concrete actions both from the Security Council and individual member states are needed immediately.”
He said, “Three years after the illegal military coup in 2021 the people of Myanmar have never, never stopped, showing their determination against the military dictatorship.”
Kyaw Moe Tun noted, “Three years after the illegal military coup in 2021 the people of Myanmar have never, never stopped, showing their determination against the military dictatorship.”
He continued, “We need an enforceable resolution building on the resolution 2669. The military control continues using fighter jets and helicopters to conduct aerial attacks on civilian areas including schools, hospitals, and religious buildings.”
The Permanent Representatives of the United Kingdom, Ecuador, France, Japan, Malta, the Republic of Korea, Slovenia, Switzerland, and the United States also had a press encounter ahead of today's Security Council meeting on Myanmar.
Reading the related joint statement, Barbara Woodward, UK Permanent Representative said, “The situation in the country remains dire. We strongly condemn the ongoing violence harming civilians, including the military’s continued use of indiscriminate air strikes.”
She also said, “Three years in, more than 18 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance, and 2.6 million have been and remain displaced from their homes. We reiterate the Council’s repeated call for full, rapid, safe, and unimpeded humanitarian access to all people in need.”
She highlighted, “Rohingya, who have faced systematic discrimination for decades, continue to be disproportionately affected by the conflict.”
She concluded, “We demand an immediate end to all forms of violence and urge restraint and de-escalation of tensions. We continue to urge the Myanmar military to immediately release all arbitrarily detained prisoners, including President Win Myint and State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi. We urge all parties to respect human rights, fundamental freedoms, the rule of law, and the democratic will and interests of the people of Myanmar.”
