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The UN refugee agency said the number of refugees fleeing violence  in Syria has now surpassed two million, with no sign of the outflow ending soon. (CH UNTV / RECENT)
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STORY: GENEVA / GUTERRES
TRT: 3.03
SOURCE: UNTV CH / UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/ NATS

DATELINE: 03 SEPTEMBER 2013, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / FILE

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RECENT 2013, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

1. Wide shot, exterior Palais des Nations

03 SEPTEMBER 2013, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

2. Med shot, journalists entering press room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, High Commissioner for refugees, UNHCR:
"We have witnessed in this conflict a staggering escalation and a continued escalation and apparently it will go on and the only thing I can tell you in any case, we will be there to help the people."
4. Cutaway, press
5. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, High Commissioner for refugees, UNHCR:
"These are indeed two million of individual stories, two million people that many have lost their houses, members of their families, their possessions, many children that are now dramatically traumatized by violence, and also two million responsibilities for the international community. To protect them, to shelter them, to feed them, to treat them, to educate them. For the children that need to go back to school.”
6. Cutaway, press
7. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, High Commissioner for refugees, UNHCR:
"What is appalling is that the first million fled Syria during two years, the second million fled Syria in six months."
8. Cutaway, press
9. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, High Commissioner for refugees, UNHCR:
"The risks for global peace and security that the present Syria crisis represents are I’m sure not smaller than what we have witnessed in any other of the crisis that we have had since at least the Vietnam war."
10. Cutaway, press
11. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, High Commissioner for refugees, UNHCR:
"We have a contingency plan for the increased number of refugees or internally displaced whatever causes that displacement."
12. Cutaway, press
13. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, High Commissioner for refugees, UNHCR:
“I will have the pleasure to receive tomorrow ministers of social affairs of Lebanon and foreign affairs of Iraq, Jordan and Turkey. We will be discussing our best to mobilize the international community.”

RECENT- UNHCR - 29 AUGUST 2013, DOMIZ AND KAWARGOSK, NORTHERN IRAQ

14. Wide shot, Domiz Camp, northern Iraq
15. Med shot, children play near shelter
16. Wide shot, refugees walking
17. Wide shot, Kawargosk temporary camp, Erbil, Northern Iraq

FILE – UNHCR - 13 MAY 2013, BEKAA VALLEY, LEBANON

18. Wide shot, settlement with tents in the Bekaa Valley
19. Med shots, Syrian refugee children in tented settlements
20. Various shots, settlement with tents in the Bekaa Valley

RECENT – UNHCR - JULY 28TH 2013, ZA'ATARI CAMP, JORDAN

21. Wide shot, tents at Za'atari
22. Med shot, people walking
23. Med shot, two girls walking into the desert
24. Wide shot,bread distribution
25. Med shot, water distribution

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The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) said the number of refugees fleeing violence in Syria had now surpassed two million, with no sign of the outflow ending soon.

High commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres, warned the crisis in Syria was unparalleled in recent history. He said, “The risks for global peace and security that the present Syria crisis represents are I’m sure not smaller than what we have witnessed in any other of the crisis that we have had since at least the Vietnam War.”

Speaking to journalists today (3 September) in Geneva, Guterres said that nearly 1.8 million of the refugees have fled the area in the past 12 months alone.

“Two million of individual stories, two million people that many have lost their houses, members of their families, their possessions, many children that are now dramatically traumatized by violence, and also two million responsibilities for the international community. To protect them, to shelter them, to feed them, to treat them, to educate them. For the children that need to go back to school.”

With an average of almost 5,000 Syrians fleeing into neighbouring countries every day, the need to significantly increase humanitarian aid and development support to host communities has reached a critical stage. Guterres also announced that ministers from Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey will meet with UNHCR in Geneva on Wednesday in a bid to accelerate international support.

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