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STORY: UN / SYRIA POLITICAL HUMANITARIAN
TRT: 04:14
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / ARABIC / NATS
DATELINE: 28 AUGUST 2024, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, UN Headquarters
28 AUGUST 2024, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Geir O. Pedersen, Special Envoy for Syria, United Nations:
“It is deplorable that civilians continue to be killed and injured almost daily in Syria and across the region.”
4. Wide shot, Security Council
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Geir O. Pedersen, Special Envoy for Syria, United Nations:
“We must redouble our efforts towards regional de-escalation in the interest of long-term peace and stability for all – including with an urgent ceasefire in Gaza, a return to calm in Lebanon and across the Blue Line, and wider regional de-escalation.”
6. Med shot, Syrian representative
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Geir O. Pedersen, Special Envoy for Syria, United Nations:
“I reiterate my long-standing call for an immediate and sustained de-escalation of hostilities in Syria, towards a nationwide ceasefire, and a cooperative approach to countering Security Council-listed terrorist groups in line with international law.”
8. Wide shot, Security Council
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Geir O. Pedersen, Special Envoy for Syria, United Nations:
“The situation for refugees and the displaced, across Syria and the region, remains alarming. Syrians must be protected wherever they are, including in host countries. Anti-refugee rhetoric and actions must cease.”
10. Wide shot, Security Council
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Geir O. Pedersen, Special Envoy for Syria, United Nations:
“Syria’s de facto division, its ongoing military conflict, the deep involvement of outside actors, the presence of listed terrorist groups, the myriad human rights abuses, the humanitarian suffering, its economic collapse, its institutional degradation, its social disintegration, its continuing displacement tragedy, the fate of the detained and disappeared – Mr. President, none of these problems are separable from the deep political cleavages among Syrians and regarding Syria.”
12. Wide shot, Security Council
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Geir O. Pedersen, Special Envoy for Syria, United Nations:
“We have no illusion that any of this will be easy. But it would be a mistake to conclude that it is impossible, that the conflict can only be managed and not resolved. There are clear and realistic ideas on the table on what all parties could do to make progress. What is needed is political will, for the Syrian parties to come together and for international cooperation. I of course realize that geopolitical alignments on Syria remain challenging, but there is a way forward.”
14. Wide shot, Security Council
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Joyce Msuya, Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs / Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator, United Nations:
“The people of Syria continue to face a profound humanitarian crisis. More than 16 million people – over 70 percent of the population – require assistance. Three-quarters are women and children.”
16. Wide shot, Security Council
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Joyce Msuya, Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs / Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator, United Nations:
“More than 6 million Syrians continue to live as refugees or asylum-seekers outside Syria’s borders – many of them in neighboring countries. Within Syria, some 7.2 million people – or nearly a third of the population – are displaced, most of them for over a decade.”
18. Wide shot, Security Council
19. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Al-Hakam Dandi, Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Syrian Arab Republic:
“The government of Syria maintains its positive approach and constructive cooperation with partners in humanitarian and development fields. It continues to provide facilitations that are needed, and it has renewed the authorization to use Bab al-Salam and al-Ra’ee border crossings for an additional 3 months. This is to ensure that aid reaches whose who need it in the north-west of Syria.”
20. Wide shot, Security Council
UN Special Envoy for Syria Geir O. Pedersen said, “It is deplorable that civilians continue to be killed and injured almost daily in Syria and across the region.”
Addressing the Security Council today (28 Aug), Pedersen said, “We must redouble our efforts towards regional de-escalation in the interest of long-term peace and stability for all – including with an urgent ceasefire in Gaza, a return to calm in Lebanon and across the Blue Line, and wider regional de-escalation.”
He then reiterated his “long-standing call for an immediate and sustained de-escalation of hostilities in Syria, towards a nationwide ceasefire, and a cooperative approach to countering Security Council-listed terrorist groups in line with international law.”
He stated, “The situation for refugees and the displaced, across Syria and the region, remains alarming. Syrians must be protected wherever they are, including in host countries. Anti-refugee rhetoric and actions must cease.”
He said, “Syria’s de facto division, its ongoing military conflict, the deep involvement of outside actors, the presence of listed terrorist groups, the myriad human rights abuses, the humanitarian suffering, its economic collapse, its institutional degradation, its social disintegration, its continuing displacement tragedy, the fate of the detained and disappeared – Mr. President, none of these problems are separable from the deep political cleavages among Syrians and regarding Syria.”
He concluded, “We have no illusion that any of this will be easy. But it would be a mistake to conclude that it is impossible, that the conflict can only be managed and not resolved. There are clear and realistic ideas on the table on what all parties could do to make progress. What is needed is political will, for the Syrian parties to come together and for international cooperation. I of course realize that geopolitical alignments on Syria remain challenging, but there is a way forward.”
Also addressing the Council today, Joyce Msuya, UN Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator said, “The people of Syria continue to face a profound humanitarian crisis. More than 16 million people – over 70 percent of the population – require assistance. Three-quarters are women and children.”
She added, “More than 6 million Syrians continue to live as refugees or asylum-seekers outside Syria’s borders – many of them in neighboring countries. Within Syria, some 7.2 million people – or nearly a third of the population – are displaced, most of them for over a decade.”
Al-Hakam Dandi, Syrian Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations, said that his government “maintains its positive approach and constructive cooperation with partners in humanitarian and development fields. It continues to provide facilitations that are needed, and it has renewed the authorization to use Bab al-Salam and al-Ra’ee border crossings for an additional 3 months. This is to ensure that aid reaches whose who need it in the north-west of Syria.”