Nothing Is More Important Than To Get An End To The Fighting In Syria, Egeland

Briefing journalists on the situation in Syria, the United Nations (UN) humanitarian adviser said “nothing is more important now than to get an end to the fighting.”

Speaking about the bombing of a hospital in Aleppo last week, the special advisor for the UN Special Envoy for Syria Jan Egeland told reporters it was “a catastrophe that medical relief has been targeted, that doctors and nurses are killed while the population is bleeding.”

Egeland also said “besiegement is worse in Syria, is worse in Syria, than in any other place on Earth” adding that “it has been going on now for years and we are now in danger of creating new besieged areas. We cannot allow that to happen.”

The special advisor commended efforts of the co-chairs of the International Syria Support Group (ISSG), Russia and the United States, but he also said “we don't need declarations, we need an end to bombardment and end to fighting.”

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STORY: GENEVA / EGELAND ALEPPO
SOURCE: UNIFEED-UNTV CH /UNICEF/ FILE
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /NATS

DATELINE: 4 MAY 2016, GENEVA / FILE
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1. Aerial shot, Palais des nations

4 MAY 2016, GENEVA

2. SOUNDBITE (English) Jan Egeland, Special Advisor for the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria:
“It is a catastrophe and a catastrophe that medical relief has been targeted, that doctors and nurses are killed while the population is bleeding. We hope that things will change in the short term, if not, eastern Aleppo may even become a besieged area.”

FILE – UNICEF - 7 MARCH 2016 ALEPPO, SYRIA

3. Wide shot, boy carrying water containers through rubble

4 MAY 2016, GENEVA

4. SOUNDBITE (English) Jan Egeland, Special Advisor for the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria:
“What is I think unique for Syria is not in a way the access problem, because they are in many places – Yemen, South Sudan, Central African Republic, etc. Besiegement is worse in Syria than in any other place on Earth. It has been going on now for years and we are now in danger of creating new besieged areas. We cannot allow that to happen.”

FILE – UNICEF - 7 MARCH 2016 ALEPPO, SYRIA

5. Wide shot, kid walking through rubble

4 MAY 2016, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

6. SOUNDBITE (English) Jan Egeland, Special Advisor for the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria:
“Nothing is more important now than to get an end to the fighting. What is done by the co-chairs of the ISSG, Russia and the US couldn't be more important. But we don't need declarations, we need an end to bombardment and end to fighting.”

FILE – UNICEF - 12 MARCH 2014, HOMS, SYRIA

7. Various shots, destroyed neighbourhood


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