GENEVA / MEDITERRANEAN DEATHS UPDATE
21-Apr-2015
00:02:40
The UN refugee agency, UNHCR on Tuesday welcomed European plans to tackle the challenges of irregular migration in the Mediterranean, but said the protection of people should remain the priority after hundreds of refugees and migrants lost their lives. UNTV CH
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STORY: GENEVA / MEDITERRANEAN DEATHS UPDATE
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SOURCE: UNTV CH
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/ NATS
DATELINE: 21 APRIL 2015, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
TRT: 2.40
SOURCE: UNTV CH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/ NATS
DATELINE: 21 APRIL 2015, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
SHOTLIST
21 APRIL 2015, GENEVA
1. External shot, Palais des Nations, Geneva
2. Wide shot, Press room, Palais des Nations, Geneva
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Adrian Edwards, Spokesperson, UNHCR:
“UNHCH has now interviewed most of the survivors of Saturday’s boat tragedy in the Mediterranean. According to them, the boat departed from Tripoli in Libya on Saturday morning it had some 850 people on board, many of these were children, among those on board were 350 Eritreans as well as people from Syria, Somalia, Sierra Leone, Mali, Senegal, Gambia, Ivory Coast and Ethiopia.”
4. Wide shot, pan, Press room, Palais des Nations, Geneva
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Adrian Edwards, Spokesperson, UNHCR:
“UNHCR now believes the number of fatalities to have been over 800, making this the deadliest incident in the Mediterranean we have ever recorded. We have currently a total of about 1,300 deaths in April. This means that April of 2015 has truly been the cruellest month the highest numbers of deaths that we've seen in any month on the Mediterranean. We've had so far this year 1,776 reported dead on the Mediterranean.”
6. Wide, Press Room, Palais des Nations, Geneva
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Mr. Volker Turk, Assistant High Commissioner for Protection, UNHCR:
“We very much welcome the various action points obviously the devil is in the detail, we need to make sure that the asylum component and the protection of people component is one that is prioritized within these measures.”
8. Journalists, Press Room, Palais des Nations, Geneva
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Mr. Volker Turk, Assistant High Commissioner for Protection, UNHCR:
“It's clear that Mare Nostrum was an extremely important search and rescue regime that helped to save thousands and thousands of lives. With the end of Mare Nostrum, we indeed unfortunately predicted the type of scenarios that are playing out today and we hope that the European Council meeting on Thursday will give adequate attention to the search and rescue dimension of this issue given that the fact that we're talking here mostly about push factors.”
10. Wide, Press Room, Palais des Nations, Geneva
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Adrian Edwards, Spokesperson, UNHCR:
“In 2014, the Mediterranean emerged as you know as the deadliest in the world for refugees and migrants to be crossing, on average 1 in 50 people who attempted that crossing perished. So far this year it’s 1 in 18 so the numbers are really going in the wrong direction.”
12. Journalist, Press room, Palais des Nations, Geneva
13. Table of journalists, Press Room, Palais des Nations, Geneva
1. External shot, Palais des Nations, Geneva
2. Wide shot, Press room, Palais des Nations, Geneva
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Adrian Edwards, Spokesperson, UNHCR:
“UNHCH has now interviewed most of the survivors of Saturday’s boat tragedy in the Mediterranean. According to them, the boat departed from Tripoli in Libya on Saturday morning it had some 850 people on board, many of these were children, among those on board were 350 Eritreans as well as people from Syria, Somalia, Sierra Leone, Mali, Senegal, Gambia, Ivory Coast and Ethiopia.”
4. Wide shot, pan, Press room, Palais des Nations, Geneva
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Adrian Edwards, Spokesperson, UNHCR:
“UNHCR now believes the number of fatalities to have been over 800, making this the deadliest incident in the Mediterranean we have ever recorded. We have currently a total of about 1,300 deaths in April. This means that April of 2015 has truly been the cruellest month the highest numbers of deaths that we've seen in any month on the Mediterranean. We've had so far this year 1,776 reported dead on the Mediterranean.”
6. Wide, Press Room, Palais des Nations, Geneva
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Mr. Volker Turk, Assistant High Commissioner for Protection, UNHCR:
“We very much welcome the various action points obviously the devil is in the detail, we need to make sure that the asylum component and the protection of people component is one that is prioritized within these measures.”
8. Journalists, Press Room, Palais des Nations, Geneva
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Mr. Volker Turk, Assistant High Commissioner for Protection, UNHCR:
“It's clear that Mare Nostrum was an extremely important search and rescue regime that helped to save thousands and thousands of lives. With the end of Mare Nostrum, we indeed unfortunately predicted the type of scenarios that are playing out today and we hope that the European Council meeting on Thursday will give adequate attention to the search and rescue dimension of this issue given that the fact that we're talking here mostly about push factors.”
10. Wide, Press Room, Palais des Nations, Geneva
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Adrian Edwards, Spokesperson, UNHCR:
“In 2014, the Mediterranean emerged as you know as the deadliest in the world for refugees and migrants to be crossing, on average 1 in 50 people who attempted that crossing perished. So far this year it’s 1 in 18 so the numbers are really going in the wrong direction.”
12. Journalist, Press room, Palais des Nations, Geneva
13. Table of journalists, Press Room, Palais des Nations, Geneva
STORYLINE
The UN refugee agency, UNHCR on Tuesday welcomed European plans to tackle the challenges of irregular migration in the Mediterranean, but said the protection of people should remain the priority after hundreds of refugees and migrants lost their lives.
The European Union (EU) Joint Foreign Affairs and Home Council on Monday proposed a 10-point action plan on migration following a week of shipwrecks on the Mediterranean, including the most deadly recorded by UNHCR.
Briefing journalists in Geneva, Volker Turk, Assistant High Commissioner for Protection at UNHCR said “we very much welcome the various action points obviously the devil is in the detail, we need to make sure that the asylum component and the protection of people component is one that is prioritized within these measures.”
He added “with the end of Mare Nostrum we indeed unfortunately predicted the type of scenarios that are playing out today and we hope that the European Council meeting on Thursday will give adequate attention to the search and rescue dimension of this issue.”
UNHCR now believes the number of fatalities to have been over 800, making this the deadliest incident in the Mediterranean we have ever recorded. “We have currently a total of about 1300 deaths in April. This means that April of 2015 has truly been the cruellest month,” UNHCR spokesman Arian Edwards told journalists at the same briefing.
According to survivors interviewed by UNHCR, the boat departed from Tripoli in Libya on Saturday morning with some 850 people on board, including 350 Eritreans as well as people from Syria, Somalia, Sierra Leone, Mali, Senegal, Gambia, Ivory Coast and Ethiopia.
The European Union (EU) Joint Foreign Affairs and Home Council on Monday proposed a 10-point action plan on migration following a week of shipwrecks on the Mediterranean, including the most deadly recorded by UNHCR.
Briefing journalists in Geneva, Volker Turk, Assistant High Commissioner for Protection at UNHCR said “we very much welcome the various action points obviously the devil is in the detail, we need to make sure that the asylum component and the protection of people component is one that is prioritized within these measures.”
He added “with the end of Mare Nostrum we indeed unfortunately predicted the type of scenarios that are playing out today and we hope that the European Council meeting on Thursday will give adequate attention to the search and rescue dimension of this issue.”
UNHCR now believes the number of fatalities to have been over 800, making this the deadliest incident in the Mediterranean we have ever recorded. “We have currently a total of about 1300 deaths in April. This means that April of 2015 has truly been the cruellest month,” UNHCR spokesman Arian Edwards told journalists at the same briefing.
According to survivors interviewed by UNHCR, the boat departed from Tripoli in Libya on Saturday morning with some 850 people on board, including 350 Eritreans as well as people from Syria, Somalia, Sierra Leone, Mali, Senegal, Gambia, Ivory Coast and Ethiopia.
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