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United Kingdom Ambassador Barbara Woodward told reporters that in the past three months, Myanmar’s military has launched “the highest volume of airstrikes since the coup in February 2021,” while “over a third of the country's population now needs humanitarian aid to survive.” UNIFEED
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STORY: UN / MYANMAR
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LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 20 NOVEMBER 2024, NEW YORK CITY / FILE

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1. Wide shot, exterior, United Nations

20 NOVEMBER 2024, NEW YORK CITY

2. Pan left, United Kingdom Ambassador Barbara Woodward walks up to the stakeout podium
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Ambassador Barbara Woodward, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, United Kingdom:
“Between August and October, the military attacked Myanmar people with the highest volume of airstrikes since the coup in February 2021. They've used more improvised explosive devices, landmines and shelling in the past year than in any year since the coup. And we absolutely condemn this. Over a third of the country's population now needs humanitarian aid to survive.”

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4. Close up, reporter’s notepad

20 NOVEMBER 2024, NEW YORK CITY

5. SOUNDBITE (English) Ambassador Barbara Woodward, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, United Kingdom:
“The military must be held to account. The time for Council action is far overdue. In September, we introduced a draft resolution urging all parties to stop their violence against civilians, comply with the obligations under IHL and stop supplying weapons and fuel to the military. Our resolution also calls for the full implementation of ASEAN's five point consensus and the scaling up of humanitarian assistance.”
6. Pan left, Myanmar Ambassador Kyaw Moe Tun walks up to the stakeout podium
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Kyaw Moe Tun, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Myanmar:
“The military junta does not stop committing international crimes. Indiscriminate aerial bombings on the civilian populations, torching villages, mass killing of civilians, arbitrary arrests and detention, torture and violence in forms of sexual and gender-based, forced conscription and all atrocities committed and transnational organised crimes fueled by the military junta in the complete absence of rule of law, have been resulting in the enormous suffering of Myanmar people at an unprecedented level. The junta can commit these heinous crimes, clearly with direct or indirect support of some corners of the international community.”
8. Wide shot, Tun at the podium
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Kyaw Moe Tun, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Myanmar:
“In the name of humanity, I urge the member states, especially the member states of the UN Security Council, to bring some hope to our people through today's private meeting on Myanmar.”
10. Pan right, Tun walks away

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United Kingdom Ambassador Barbara Woodward today (20 Nov) told reporters that in the past three months, Myanmar’s military has launched “the highest volume of airstrikes since the coup in February 2021,” while “over a third of the country's population now needs humanitarian aid to survive.”

Speaking to reporters before closed consultations of the Security Council on Myanmar, Woodward condemned the attacks and saidthe military has used “more improvised explosive devices, landmines and shelling in the past year than in any year since the coup.”

The British representative said, “the military must be held to account. The time for Council action is far overdue,” noting that in September the UK had introduced a draft resolution “urging all parties to stop their violence against civilians, comply with the obligations under IHL and stop supplying weapons and fuel to the military,” while calling for “the full implementation of ASEAN's five point consensus and the scaling up of humanitarian assistance.”

Also talking to reporters, Myanmar Ambassador Kyaw Moe Tun said, “the military junta does not stop committing international crimes. Indiscriminate aerial bombings on the civilian populations, torching villages, mass killing of civilians, arbitrary arrests and detention, torture and violence in forms of sexual and gender-based, forced conscription and all atrocities committed and transnational organised crimes fueled by the military junta in the complete absence of rule of law, have been resulting in the enormous suffering of Myanmar people at an unprecedented level.”

Tun said the junta “can commit these heinous crimes, clearly with direct or indirect support of some corners of the international community.”

“In the name of humanity,” he urged Council members “to bring some hope to our people through today's private meeting on Myanmar.”

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