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STORY: OHCHR / MALAYSIA OPT MYANMAR
TRT: 04:38
SOURCE: OHCHR
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 03 - 04 JUNE 2024, KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA
03 JUNE 2024, KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA
1. Various shots, exteriors
2. Wide shot, arrival UN office
3. Various shots, HC meeting with civil society representatives
4. Travelling shot, from motorcade
5. Various shots, HC meeting with Human Rights group representatives
04 JUNE 2024, KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA
6. Wide shot, arrival at the Office of the Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim
7. Various shots, Türk meeting with Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim
8. Wide shot, arrival at press conference
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Volker Türk, High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations:
“There are many opportunities to build on the human rights advances of recent years and for the seeds of the reform agenda to bear fruit in tackling ongoing challenges. How Malaysia navigates these issues will define its future, and human rights can provide a compass.”
10. Med shot, press conference
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Volker Türk, High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations:
“As Malaysia progresses in economic development, I have heard loud and clear – from many of the people I spoke to during my visit – about the desire to ensure the progress is grounded in human rights, and to keep the human rights ambitions high and the scope wide. With its already vibrant civil society, a strong judiciary, and a well-established national human rights institution, I trust Malaysia will keep the human rights ambitions high.”
12. Wide shot, press conference
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Volker Türk, High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations:
“Three years after the military coup, more than three million people are internally displaced in Myanmar, with significant need as you can imagine, for adequate humanitarian assistance, but also we know how people desperate for an end to the violence and the mayhem.”
14. Pan left, press conference
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Volker Türk, High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations:
“Malaysia has made clear its strong opposition to the military coup that took place in February 21, and it I s hosting refugees from Myanmar, including Rohingya. In my discussions with a diverse group of refugees from Myanmar, but also with Malaysian Government officials, it is evident that there are high expectations of ASEAN when it comes to finding solutions to the current crisis in Myanmar, with obviously humanitarian issues, but also the protection of civilians at the forefront of the response. But we cannot at the same time lose sight of the urgent need to find a solution to a totally untenable and unacceptable situation. Malaysia's leadership role as a future ASEAN chair will therefore be very critical.”
16. Med shot, journalists
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Volker Türk, High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations:
“As we speak, I just issued a press release today on not so much on the situation in Gaza, because I've been talking about the situation in Gaza for a long time, but actually on the situation on the West Bank, because the latest figure is and it's a tragic one, and we have now 505 people killed in the West Bank since the 7th of October.”
18. Med shot, press conference
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Volker Türk, High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations:
“We know that there is no safety within Gaza, and it's a very tragic situation. And to answer the last question that you have asked, I mean, any initiative that leads to a ceasefire that leads to an ending of what's happening now is, of course, welcome. We can only hope that that is achieved because the humanitarian situation bears words. We don't even know how to describe it anymore. It is beyond precarious. It is beyond catastrophic.”
20. Wide shot, press conference
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk today (4 Jun) wrapped up an official mission to Malaysia, where he met with civil society representatives, members of the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (SUHAKAM) and parliamentarians.
Speaking at a press conference in Kuala Lumpur, Türk told journalists that there are “many opportunities to build on the human rights advances of recent years and for the seeds of the reform agenda to bear fruit in tackling ongoing challenges. How Malaysia navigates these issues will define its future, and human rights can provide a compass.”
“As Malaysia progresses in economic development, I have heard loud and clear – from many of the people I spoke to during my visit – about the desire to ensure the progress is grounded in human rights, and to keep the human rights ambitions high and the scope wide. With its already vibrant civil society, a strong judiciary, and a well-established national human rights institution, I trust Malaysia will keep the human rights ambitions high,” he said.
The High Commissioner said that with Malaysia poised to take the ASEAN Chair next year, he looked forward to its leadership to strengthen ASEAN’s human rights agenda and to inject renewed vigour into the international response to crises like the catastrophic situation in Myanmar.
“Three years after the military coup, more than three million people are internally displaced in Myanmar, with significant need as you can imagine, for adequate humanitarian assistance, but also we know how people desperate for an end to the violence and the mayhem,” he said.
“Malaysia has made clear its strong opposition to the military coup that took place in February 21, and it is hosting refugees from Myanmar, including Rohingya. In my discussions with a diverse group of refugees from Myanmar, but also with Malaysian Government officials, it is evident that there are high expectations of ASEAN when it comes to finding solutions to the current crisis in Myanmar, with obviously humanitarian issues, but also the protection of civilians at the forefront of the response. But we cannot at the same time lose sight of the urgent need to find a solution to a totally untenable and unacceptable situation. Malaysia's leadership role as a future ASEAN chair will therefore be very critical,” the High Commissioner said.
Responding to questions about the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Türk said the situation in Gaza was “beyond catastrophic.”
“As we speak, I just issued a press release today on not so much on the situation in Gaza, because I've been talking about the situation in Gaza for a long time, but actually on the situation on the West Bank, because the latest figure is and it's a tragic one, and we have now 505 people killed in the West Bank since the 7th of October,” he said.
“We know that there is no safety within Gaza, and it's a very tragic situation. And to answer the last question that you have asked, I mean, any initiative that leads to a ceasefire that leads to an ending of what's happening now is, of course, welcome. We can only hope that that is achieved because the humanitarian situation bears words. We don't even know how to describe it anymore. It is beyond precarious. It is beyond catastrophic,” Türk stressed.
