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STORY: GENEVA / WFP-SYRIA
TRT: 1.34
SOURCE: UNTV CH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 30 JULY 2013, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / FILE
FILE – RECENT- GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
1.Wide shot, exterior Palais des Nations
30 JULY 2013, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
2.Med shot, table of journalists
3.SOUNDBITE (English) Elisabeth Byrs, Spokesperson for the WFP:
"More areas are becoming inaccessible due to increased fighting. The WFP plan to reach 3 million people in July but the upsurge of violence across many areas in Damascus and Homs and the proliferation of checkpoints on the roads or in the major cities are affecting the pace of food dispatches."
4.Med shot, two shot of journalists
5.SOUNDBITE (English) Elisabeth Byrs, Spokesperson for the WFP:
"WFP has dispatched food for 2. 4 million people - short of the July goal. The goal is 3 million people."
6.Wide shot, press room
7.SOUNDBITE (English) Elisabeth Byrs, Spokesperson for the WFP:
“We are extremely concerned about the developing situation in Homs, where it’s believed that that several thousand people are trapped in several parts of the city, according to the latest figure about 2,500 people are trapped in Homs."
8.Med shot, journalist
9.SOUNDBITE (English) Elisabeth Byrs, Spokesperson for the WFP:
“We still need 763million dollars for our operation until the end of the year to assist up to 7million Syrians including 4million people inside Syria and almost 3million people, refugees, in neighbouring countries."
10.Wide shot, press room
The United Nations' food agency said today (30 July) that 600,000 Syrians could not receive aid this month because fighting between government and opposition forces has prevented convoys from reaching them.
Elisabeth Byrs, spokeswoman for the World Food Programme, told reporters in Geneva that the agency had aimed to reach a total of three million people in Syria in July, but had only been able to reach 2.4 million people.
“The upsurge of violence across many areas in Damascus and Homs and the proliferation of checkpoints on the roads or in the major cities are affecting the pace of food dispatches," she said.
Byrs said that the agency faced a shortfall of $763 million by the end of the year: “We still need 763million dollars for our operation until the end of the year to assist up to 7million Syrians including 4million people inside Syria and almost 3million people, refugees, in neighbouring countries."
