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SOURCE: UNIFEED
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LANGUAGE: ARABIC / ENGLISH / RUSSIAN / NATS
DATELINE: 27 FEBRUARY 2020, NEW YORK CITY
SHOTLIST:
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, UNHQ exterior
27 FEBRUARY 2020, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. Wide shot, Syrian ambassador joining meeting
4. Wide shot, Security Council
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Ursula Mueller, Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator:
“What is happening in northwest Syria, they said, is beyond imagination. It is not humanly tolerable. They told me of children so traumatized they no longer speak.”
6. Wide shot, Security Council
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Ursula Mueller, Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator:
“If viable alternatives to Al Yarubiah are not found for medical items, the gap between the humanitarian response and humanitarian needs will increase further. If medicine runs out and medical facilities are unable to carry out life-saving procedures, deaths will occur.”
8. Med shot, ambassadors
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Henrietta Fore, Executive Director, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF):
“The recent strikes on these makeshift camps in Idlib — and on the children and teachers horrifically killed just two days ago as 10 schools were attacked — are both reprehensible and morally repugnant. Also, these acts clearly demonstrate the terrifying daily conditions of those living through this nightmare.”
10. Med shot, delegates
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Henrietta Fore, Executive Director, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF):
“Millions of Syrian children are crying tonight — from hunger and cold, from wounds and pain, from fear, loss and heartbreak. They and their families face a brutal winter and an uncertain year ahead. We must stand with them. We must tell them that we choose peace. History will judge us harshly, and justly, if we do not.”
12. Med shot, ambassadors
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Kelly Craft, Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations:
“The shameful fact is that Russia and China have knowingly rejected the most effective means of saving the most lives in favour of unreliable or specious options. There is no reason to believe the Assad regime will responsibly manage humanitarian assistance funding, and we should not put a single dollar of that funding in its hands.”
14. Wide shot, Mueller at Security Council
15. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Vasily Alekseevich Nebenzya, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations:
“Furthermore, from reports of humanitarian NGOs, we know that among internally displaced persons there are people that died from their heaters catching fire in temporary tents. Those are the reasons rather than freezing, as some colleagues are trying to present, are the reasons for the death of most of those who have suffered. And we believe that humanitarian workers and companies supplying these devices should react, and that these incidents can be avoided in the future.”
16. Wide shot, Security Council
17. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Bashar Ja’afari, Permanent Representative of the Syrian Arab Republic to the United Nations:
“Liberating these roads is a great accomplishment which serves humanitarian work and delivering aid to civilians who are in need in my country. Anyone who proposes a different image or explanation to this reality, by calling for a ceasefire and negotiations with Da’esh and Al Nusra Front in Idlib, is either ignorant of the events in Syria or a direct supporter of terrorism and responsible for the bloodshed of Syrians.”
18. Wide shot, Security Council
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Feridun Hadi Sinirlioğlu, Permanent Representative of Turkey to the United Nations:
“The Assad regime and 'its supporters have a strategy that leaves the civilians with two options. They can stay ln ldlib area and desperately hope that they can survive the indiscriminate attacks by the regime and its supporters. Or, they can leave their homes to run for-their lives, under very harsh winter conditions. This strategy is not new. This is the modus operandi of the regime from the beginning. This is how they have been killing innocent people in order to hold on to power.”
19. Wide shot, Security Council
STORYLINE:
UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore said recent strikes on makeshift camps in Idlib are “both reprehensible and morally repugnant” adding that these acts “clearly demonstrate the terrifying daily conditions of those living through this nightmare.”
Addressing the Security Council today (27 Feb), Fore said the situation in northwest Syria was worsening by the day, adding that tens of thousands of people in Idlib are now living in makeshift tents, public buildings and in the open air. She said UNICEF has heard reports in recent days of children freezing to death.
Fore said an estimated 180 schools are out of operation in the northwest, leaving some 280,000 children without an education, and 72 hospitals have suspended services because of fighting as they continue to be targeted.
The Executive Director said 11 million people in Syrian still require humanitarian assistance, half of whom are children. She underscored that the needs are overwhelming and rapidly outpacing resources.
Fore called on the parties to protect children and essential civilian infrastructure. She also called for a cessation of hostilities in the northwest. She said humanitarians needed greater access across the board to reach people in the most effective and timely manner, from within Syria and from neighbouring countries.
SOUNDBITE (English) Henrietta Fore, Executive Director, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF):
“Millions of Syrian children are crying tonight — from hunger and cold, from wounds and pain, from fear, loss and heartbreak. They and their families face a brutal winter and an uncertain year ahead. We must stand with them. We must tell them that we choose peace. History will judge us harshly, and justly, if we do not.”
Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Ursula Mueller said a humanitarian catastrophe was unfolding in northwest Syria. Referencing 14 Syrian women in Idlib she spoke to last week, she said, “What is happening in northwest Syria, they said, is beyond imagination. It is not humanly tolerable. They told me of children so traumatized they no longer speak.”
Mueller said the cross-border modality of delivering aid is absolutely essential to the humanitarian response in northwestern Syria. People in need in Idlib cannot currently be reached at this scale, in such a timely and direct manner, through any other means, she warned. As the Secretary-General has stated, Mueller said, the Security Council has a critical role to play in support of these humanitarian efforts.
She also briefed the Security Council on the Secretary-General’s report on humanitarian access in the northeast, which said ‘in order for all humanitarian needs to be met, the Syrian Government would need to facilitate greater crossline access to northeast Syria, particularly for medical assistance.’
The Assistant Secretary-General said civilians remained extremely vulnerable in the northeast, with an estimated 1.9 million requiring humanitarian assistance. She said, “If viable alternatives to Al Yarubiah are not found for medical items, the gap between the humanitarian response and humanitarian needs will increase further. If medicine runs out and medical facilities are unable to carry out life-saving procedures, deaths will occur.”
Mueller echoed the Secretary-General’s renewed call for an immediate ceasefire and end to the humanitarian catastrophe and avoid an uncontrollable escalation.
United States ambassador Kelly Craft said if the humanitarian crisis in northwest Syria is to end, all efforts must be concentrated on immediately establishing a durable and verifiable ceasefire which is brokered by a fully empowered UN. She said this would require Russia to ground its planes at once and tell the Syrian Government to pull back its forces.
Craft said the closing of the Al Yarubiah crossing from Turkey was imposed by two members of the Council, which remains the best, most direct option to provide cross-border aid to northeast Syria.
SOUNDBITE (English) Kelly Craft, Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations:
“The shameful fact is that Russia and China have knowingly rejected the most effective means of saving the most lives in favour of unreliable or specious options. There is no reason to believe the Assad regime will responsibly manage humanitarian assistance funding, and we should not put a single dollar of that funding in its hands.”
Russian ambassador Vasily Nebenzya said he was convinced the humanitarian situation in Idlib was not normal but added that he believed it was possible to predict and prepare for the situation with regards to the winter period. He said the Turkish side was not creating obstacles to humanitarian deliveries to Idlib and humanitarian workers had plenty of resources, He asked why the problem in Idlib hasn’t been resolved.
SOUNDBITE (Russian) Vasily Alekseevich Nebenzya, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations:
“Furthermore, from reports of humanitarian NGOs, we know that among internally displaced persons there are people that died from their heaters catching fire in temporary tents. Those are the reasons rather than freezing, as some colleagues are trying to present, are the reasons for the death of most of those who have suffered. And we believe that humanitarian workers and companies supplying these devices should react, and that these incidents can be avoided in the future.”
Nebenzya said the only long-term solution in Idlib and Syria as a whole is the irreversible expulsion of terrorists from the country. He said there was a clear goal of creating illusion that there is no progress on humanitarian access, while the Syrian Government had increased the number of approvals for humanitarian operations to 600 a month, 95 per cent of which are blanket approvals. He said Russia was working with the Government to resolve existing difficulties but noted that the country was facing terrorism and unilateral sanctions.
Syrian ambassador Bashar Ja’afari said his Government approves the delivery of aid across front lines to the areas that need it, on the condition that it reaches only the Syrian civilians and not the armed terrorist groups and that the delivery is monitored by the Government, the Syrian Red Crescent, and UN partners.
Ja’afari said his Government informed the UN resident coordinator in Syria that it agrees to allow all medical aid to be delivered by road, especially after the liberation of the international road between Damascus and Aleppo and other international roads.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Bashar Ja’afari, Permanent Representative of the Syrian Arab Republic to the United Nations:
“Liberating these roads is a great accomplishment which serves humanitarian work and delivering aid to civilians who are in need in my country. Anyone who proposes a different image or explanation to this reality, by calling for a ceasefire and negotiations with Da’esh and Al Nusra Front in Idlib, is either ignorant of the events in Syria or a direct supporter of terrorism and responsible for the bloodshed of Syrians.”
Ja’afari said Syria reaffirms its absolute rejection for any illegal foreign presence on its territory, including the Turkish presence, and calls for reigning in Turkey’s aggression and its unlimited support for terrorism in Syria, Libya, the Horn of Africa and elsewhere.
Turkish ambassador Feridun Sinirlioğlu said a humanitarian disaster was unfolding in Syria, adding that the brutality and disregard for human life was beyond comprehension.
SOUNDBITE (English) Feridun Hadi Sinirlioğlu, Permanent Representative of Turkey to the United Nations:
“The Assad regime and 'its supporters have a strategy that leaves the civilians with two options. They can stay ln ldlib area and desperately hope that they can survive the indiscriminate attacks by the regime and its supporters. Or, they can leave their homes to run for-their lives, under very harsh winter conditions. This strategy is not new. This is the modus operandi of the regime from the beginning. This is how they have been killing innocent people in order to hold on to power.”
Sinirlioğlu asked if the international community would stand idle as millions of people are displaced and children continued to freeze to death. He said the situation in Idlib was not just a humanitarian tragedy, but there were also serious crimes against humanity.
The Turkish ambassador said his country would not stand idle and would continue to help the Syrian people. He called for an immediate cessation of hostilities and the full implementation of the Sochi Memorandum.
TRT: 3:55
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ARABIC / ENGLISH / RUSSIAN / NATS
DATELINE: 27 FEBRUARY 2020, NEW YORK CITY
SHOTLIST:
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, UNHQ exterior
27 FEBRUARY 2020, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. Wide shot, Syrian ambassador joining meeting
4. Wide shot, Security Council
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Ursula Mueller, Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator:
“What is happening in northwest Syria, they said, is beyond imagination. It is not humanly tolerable. They told me of children so traumatized they no longer speak.”
6. Wide shot, Security Council
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Ursula Mueller, Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator:
“If viable alternatives to Al Yarubiah are not found for medical items, the gap between the humanitarian response and humanitarian needs will increase further. If medicine runs out and medical facilities are unable to carry out life-saving procedures, deaths will occur.”
8. Med shot, ambassadors
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Henrietta Fore, Executive Director, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF):
“The recent strikes on these makeshift camps in Idlib — and on the children and teachers horrifically killed just two days ago as 10 schools were attacked — are both reprehensible and morally repugnant. Also, these acts clearly demonstrate the terrifying daily conditions of those living through this nightmare.”
10. Med shot, delegates
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Henrietta Fore, Executive Director, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF):
“Millions of Syrian children are crying tonight — from hunger and cold, from wounds and pain, from fear, loss and heartbreak. They and their families face a brutal winter and an uncertain year ahead. We must stand with them. We must tell them that we choose peace. History will judge us harshly, and justly, if we do not.”
12. Med shot, ambassadors
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Kelly Craft, Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations:
“The shameful fact is that Russia and China have knowingly rejected the most effective means of saving the most lives in favour of unreliable or specious options. There is no reason to believe the Assad regime will responsibly manage humanitarian assistance funding, and we should not put a single dollar of that funding in its hands.”
14. Wide shot, Mueller at Security Council
15. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Vasily Alekseevich Nebenzya, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations:
“Furthermore, from reports of humanitarian NGOs, we know that among internally displaced persons there are people that died from their heaters catching fire in temporary tents. Those are the reasons rather than freezing, as some colleagues are trying to present, are the reasons for the death of most of those who have suffered. And we believe that humanitarian workers and companies supplying these devices should react, and that these incidents can be avoided in the future.”
16. Wide shot, Security Council
17. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Bashar Ja’afari, Permanent Representative of the Syrian Arab Republic to the United Nations:
“Liberating these roads is a great accomplishment which serves humanitarian work and delivering aid to civilians who are in need in my country. Anyone who proposes a different image or explanation to this reality, by calling for a ceasefire and negotiations with Da’esh and Al Nusra Front in Idlib, is either ignorant of the events in Syria or a direct supporter of terrorism and responsible for the bloodshed of Syrians.”
18. Wide shot, Security Council
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Feridun Hadi Sinirlioğlu, Permanent Representative of Turkey to the United Nations:
“The Assad regime and 'its supporters have a strategy that leaves the civilians with two options. They can stay ln ldlib area and desperately hope that they can survive the indiscriminate attacks by the regime and its supporters. Or, they can leave their homes to run for-their lives, under very harsh winter conditions. This strategy is not new. This is the modus operandi of the regime from the beginning. This is how they have been killing innocent people in order to hold on to power.”
19. Wide shot, Security Council
STORYLINE:
UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore said recent strikes on makeshift camps in Idlib are “both reprehensible and morally repugnant” adding that these acts “clearly demonstrate the terrifying daily conditions of those living through this nightmare.”
Addressing the Security Council today (27 Feb), Fore said the situation in northwest Syria was worsening by the day, adding that tens of thousands of people in Idlib are now living in makeshift tents, public buildings and in the open air. She said UNICEF has heard reports in recent days of children freezing to death.
Fore said an estimated 180 schools are out of operation in the northwest, leaving some 280,000 children without an education, and 72 hospitals have suspended services because of fighting as they continue to be targeted.
The Executive Director said 11 million people in Syrian still require humanitarian assistance, half of whom are children. She underscored that the needs are overwhelming and rapidly outpacing resources.
Fore called on the parties to protect children and essential civilian infrastructure. She also called for a cessation of hostilities in the northwest. She said humanitarians needed greater access across the board to reach people in the most effective and timely manner, from within Syria and from neighbouring countries.
SOUNDBITE (English) Henrietta Fore, Executive Director, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF):
“Millions of Syrian children are crying tonight — from hunger and cold, from wounds and pain, from fear, loss and heartbreak. They and their families face a brutal winter and an uncertain year ahead. We must stand with them. We must tell them that we choose peace. History will judge us harshly, and justly, if we do not.”
Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Ursula Mueller said a humanitarian catastrophe was unfolding in northwest Syria. Referencing 14 Syrian women in Idlib she spoke to last week, she said, “What is happening in northwest Syria, they said, is beyond imagination. It is not humanly tolerable. They told me of children so traumatized they no longer speak.”
Mueller said the cross-border modality of delivering aid is absolutely essential to the humanitarian response in northwestern Syria. People in need in Idlib cannot currently be reached at this scale, in such a timely and direct manner, through any other means, she warned. As the Secretary-General has stated, Mueller said, the Security Council has a critical role to play in support of these humanitarian efforts.
She also briefed the Security Council on the Secretary-General’s report on humanitarian access in the northeast, which said ‘in order for all humanitarian needs to be met, the Syrian Government would need to facilitate greater crossline access to northeast Syria, particularly for medical assistance.’
The Assistant Secretary-General said civilians remained extremely vulnerable in the northeast, with an estimated 1.9 million requiring humanitarian assistance. She said, “If viable alternatives to Al Yarubiah are not found for medical items, the gap between the humanitarian response and humanitarian needs will increase further. If medicine runs out and medical facilities are unable to carry out life-saving procedures, deaths will occur.”
Mueller echoed the Secretary-General’s renewed call for an immediate ceasefire and end to the humanitarian catastrophe and avoid an uncontrollable escalation.
United States ambassador Kelly Craft said if the humanitarian crisis in northwest Syria is to end, all efforts must be concentrated on immediately establishing a durable and verifiable ceasefire which is brokered by a fully empowered UN. She said this would require Russia to ground its planes at once and tell the Syrian Government to pull back its forces.
Craft said the closing of the Al Yarubiah crossing from Turkey was imposed by two members of the Council, which remains the best, most direct option to provide cross-border aid to northeast Syria.
SOUNDBITE (English) Kelly Craft, Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations:
“The shameful fact is that Russia and China have knowingly rejected the most effective means of saving the most lives in favour of unreliable or specious options. There is no reason to believe the Assad regime will responsibly manage humanitarian assistance funding, and we should not put a single dollar of that funding in its hands.”
Russian ambassador Vasily Nebenzya said he was convinced the humanitarian situation in Idlib was not normal but added that he believed it was possible to predict and prepare for the situation with regards to the winter period. He said the Turkish side was not creating obstacles to humanitarian deliveries to Idlib and humanitarian workers had plenty of resources, He asked why the problem in Idlib hasn’t been resolved.
SOUNDBITE (Russian) Vasily Alekseevich Nebenzya, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations:
“Furthermore, from reports of humanitarian NGOs, we know that among internally displaced persons there are people that died from their heaters catching fire in temporary tents. Those are the reasons rather than freezing, as some colleagues are trying to present, are the reasons for the death of most of those who have suffered. And we believe that humanitarian workers and companies supplying these devices should react, and that these incidents can be avoided in the future.”
Nebenzya said the only long-term solution in Idlib and Syria as a whole is the irreversible expulsion of terrorists from the country. He said there was a clear goal of creating illusion that there is no progress on humanitarian access, while the Syrian Government had increased the number of approvals for humanitarian operations to 600 a month, 95 per cent of which are blanket approvals. He said Russia was working with the Government to resolve existing difficulties but noted that the country was facing terrorism and unilateral sanctions.
Syrian ambassador Bashar Ja’afari said his Government approves the delivery of aid across front lines to the areas that need it, on the condition that it reaches only the Syrian civilians and not the armed terrorist groups and that the delivery is monitored by the Government, the Syrian Red Crescent, and UN partners.
Ja’afari said his Government informed the UN resident coordinator in Syria that it agrees to allow all medical aid to be delivered by road, especially after the liberation of the international road between Damascus and Aleppo and other international roads.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Bashar Ja’afari, Permanent Representative of the Syrian Arab Republic to the United Nations:
“Liberating these roads is a great accomplishment which serves humanitarian work and delivering aid to civilians who are in need in my country. Anyone who proposes a different image or explanation to this reality, by calling for a ceasefire and negotiations with Da’esh and Al Nusra Front in Idlib, is either ignorant of the events in Syria or a direct supporter of terrorism and responsible for the bloodshed of Syrians.”
Ja’afari said Syria reaffirms its absolute rejection for any illegal foreign presence on its territory, including the Turkish presence, and calls for reigning in Turkey’s aggression and its unlimited support for terrorism in Syria, Libya, the Horn of Africa and elsewhere.
Turkish ambassador Feridun Sinirlioğlu said a humanitarian disaster was unfolding in Syria, adding that the brutality and disregard for human life was beyond comprehension.
SOUNDBITE (English) Feridun Hadi Sinirlioğlu, Permanent Representative of Turkey to the United Nations:
“The Assad regime and 'its supporters have a strategy that leaves the civilians with two options. They can stay ln ldlib area and desperately hope that they can survive the indiscriminate attacks by the regime and its supporters. Or, they can leave their homes to run for-their lives, under very harsh winter conditions. This strategy is not new. This is the modus operandi of the regime from the beginning. This is how they have been killing innocent people in order to hold on to power.”
Sinirlioğlu asked if the international community would stand idle as millions of people are displaced and children continued to freeze to death. He said the situation in Idlib was not just a humanitarian tragedy, but there were also serious crimes against humanity.
The Turkish ambassador said his country would not stand idle and would continue to help the Syrian people. He called for an immediate cessation of hostilities and the full implementation of the Sochi Memorandum.
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