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STORY: GENEVA / SYRIA HOMS
TRT: 2.53
SOURCE: CH UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 12 JUNE 2012, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / FILE
FILE – RECENT, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
1. Wide shot, exterior Palais des Nations
27 JANUARY 2012, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
2. Close up, photographer
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Ahmad Fawzi, Spokesman for Kofi Annan, Joint Special Envoy to Syria:
“What we need to do is get the parties to respect the plan and implement the plan. The problem isn’t the Plan. The problem is implementation of the Plan. Kofi Annan has said this; Ban Ki-moon has said this, every foreign minister in the world has said this.”
4. Med shot, journalists
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Ahmad Fawzi, Spokesman for Kofi Annan, Joint Special Envoy to Syria:
“Annan has invited governments with influence to raise the bar to another level, to the highest level possible, and twist arms if necessary, to get the parties to implement the Plan.”
6. Med shot, journalists
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Ahmad Fawzi, Spokesman for Kofi Annan, Joint Special Envoy to Syria:
“Violence in all its forms by all parties must stop immediately for the sake of the Syrian people. We're not taking sides in this conflict. The only side we're on is the side of the Syrian people, women, men and children who are suffering in Syria.”
8. Close up, journalist
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Ahmad Fawzi, Spokesman for Kofi Annan, Joint Special Envoy to Syria:
“The stronger party should send a strong signal in good faith and stop the violence, and the stronger party in this case, is clearly the Government of Syria.”
10. Med shot, journalists
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Ahmad Fawzi, Spokesman for Kofi Annan, Joint Special Envoy to Syria:
“Our observers have videotaped helicopters in the skies with fire coming out of them, so whether they're helicopters with machine guns on them or helicopter gunships, we have not been able to make that distinction yet but, yes, they are being used and we have observed them being used.”
12. Med shot, journalists
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Ahmad Fawzi, Spokesman for Kofi Annan, Joint Special Envoy to Syria:
“A ceasefire is a ceasefire, whether it's from the air or the ground and we have been calling for all parties to stop the violence whether it be from the air or from the ground. And of course, the capacity to use the air is only a government capacity.”
14. Med shot, journalists
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Ahmad Fawzi, Spokesman for Kofi Annan, Joint Special Envoy to Syria:
“We have seen the spectre of sectarianism rising in Syria and that’s precisely what the Joint Special Envoy and the Secretary General have been warning about, and others, that the longer this violence continues, the more dangerous is becomes for not only the country and the Syrian people, but the region and the sectarian nature that is emerging, we see it spilling over into Lebanon as well. It's dangerous, and the red light is flashing.
16. Med shot, journalists
The Spokesman for the Joint Special Envoy to Syria today (12 June) called emphatically for all parties in Syria to urgently implement the peace plan to stop the escalation of violence in the country, particularly in the last few days north of Homs.
Speaking to journalists in Geneva and referring to the six-point peace plan, known as the Annan Plan, Ahmad Fawzi denied that the plan itself if failing. He said that the continuing violence in the country is not due to the plan failing but due to its non-implementation. Intensified efforts, he said, are underway at a very high level to try to get all parties to abide by the Plan including involving the support of "governments of influence".
The spokesman underlined that the stronger party in the conflict should take the lead in stopping the conflict - "and the stronger party in this case is clearly the government of Syria."
Fawzi confirmed the presence of helicopters in the conflict, and that UN observers on the ground had recorded on video shots being fired from helicopters. Only the Syrian government, he said, had the capacity to use helicopters.
On the question of rising sectarianism in the conflict, the Spokesman confirmed that is what is happening in Syria with spill over into neighbouring Lebanon. "The red light is flashing", he said.
The crisis, which began in March 2011 as a protest movement similar to those across the Middle East and North Africa, has claimed over 9,000 lives, mostly civilians, and displaced tens of thousands.
Annan’s plan calls for an end to violence, access for humanitarian agencies to provide relief to those in need, the release of detainees, the start of inclusive political dialogue that takes into account the aspirations of the Syrian people, and unrestricted access to the country for the international media.
