TRT: 3:28
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / CHINESE / RUSSIAN / NATS
DATELINE: 6 FEBRUARY 2023, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
SHOTLIST:
FILE – NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, UN flag, UN Headquarters
6 FEBRUARY 2023, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, delegates
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Martin Griffiths, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, United Nations:
“17.6 million people – that’s almost 40 percent of Ukraine’s population –need humanitarian assistance.
More than 7,000 civilians have been killed. And these are only the figures confirmed by the UN, and I am sure the truth is that they are higher. Nearly 8 million Ukrainians have fled to neighbouring countries. 5.3 million, in addition, are internally displaced, seeking shelter.”
4. Med shot, delegates
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Martin Griffiths, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, United Nations:
“We have provided 15.8 million people with assistance in this last year, including more than 1.3 million people who are in areas outside the control of the Government of Ukraine.”
6. Wide shot, Security Council
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Martin Griffiths, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, United Nations:
“Humanitarian access to areas under the temporary military control of the Russian Federation has become increasingly unpredictable and difficult to achieve. Despite repeated attempts and negotiations, we haven’t been able to launch crossline convoys to go from one area to another, from north to south.”
8. Wide shot, Security Council
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Martin GriffithanotherSecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, United Nations:
“On the eve of this horrific one-year milestone – which comes on top of the previous eight years of conflict – we have a lot to do. We have a lot to do together, and we can do better. So, I end, Madam President, by calling on us all to stay in solidarity with the people of Ukraine.”
10. Wide shot, Security Council
11. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Zhang Jun, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, China:
“China calls for an immediate stop of shelling the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, implementation of the seven pillars for ensuring nuclear safety and security proposed by the IAEA director general, and maximum effort to stop the conflict from escalating to a nuclear crisis.”
12. Med shot, delegates
13. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Vasily Nebenzya, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Russia:
“All sensible people already understand that today the war, and hostility rather – is not between Ukraine and Russia, but rather Russia and the collective NATO west, that is using Ukraine just as a tool in its crusade against Russia.”
14. Med shot, delegates
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, United States of America:
“This is in the hands of one person – President Putin alone. Putin started this war, and he can end it today by pulling his troops out of Ukraine and really allow for peace to take place. For Ukraine, this is a matter of survival.”
16. Wide shot, Security Council
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Sergiy Kyslytsya, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ukraine:
“As we approach the date marking one year since Russia launched its fool flash war and plunged the center of the European continent into violence, bloodshed, and devastation, the needs and suffering of people on the ground should be our primary focus. To this end, Ukraine, together with more than 30 member states, will initiate a high-level event on the 22nd of February to address gross human rights violations due to the aggression against Ukraine.”
18. Wide shot, Security Council
STORYLINE:
The UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths said that humanitarian access to areas under the temporary military control of the Russian Federation has become increasingly unpredictable and difficult to achieve.
Briefing the Security Council today (6 Feb), Martin Griffiths, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, reported said, “Despite repeated attempts and negotiations, we haven’t been able to launch crossline convoys to go from one area to the other, from north to south.”
According to Griffiths, 17.6 million people –almost 40 percent of Ukraine’s population –need humanitarian assistance, and more than 7,000 civilians have been killed.
“And these are only the figures confirmed by the UN, and I am sure the truth is that they are higher,” he added.
Nearly 8 million Ukrainians have fled to neighboring countries, and 5.3 million are internally displaced, seeking shelter.
Violence shows no sign of abating, noted Griffiths.
Only last week, air strikes hit hospitals on both sides of the front line, causing death and injury among dozens of civilians.
Griffiths also said, “We have provided 15.8 million people with assistance in this last year, including more than 1.3 million people who are in areas outside the control of the Government of Ukraine.”
He concluded, “On the eve of this horrific one-year milestone – which comes on top of the previous eight years of conflict – we have a lot to do. We have a lot to do together, and we can do better. So, I end, Madam President, by calling on us all to stay in solidarity with the people of Ukraine.”
Also addressing the Council today, Zhang Jun, Permanent Representative of China to the United Nations, said that his country “calls for an immediate stop of shelling the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, implementation of the seven pillars for ensuring nuclear safety and security proposed by the IAEA director general, and maximum effort to stop the conflict from escalating to a nuclear crisis.”
Vasily Nebenzya, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation, stated, “All sensible people already understand that today the war, and hostility rather – is not between Ukraine and Russia, but rather Russia and the collective NATO west, that is using Ukraine just as a tool in its crusade against Russia.”
The United States Permanent Representative to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, said, “This is in the hands of one person – President Putin alone. Putin started this war, and he can end it today by pulling his troops out of Ukraine and really allow for peace to take place. For Ukraine, this is a matter of survival.”
Sergiy Kyslytsya, Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations, said, “As we approach the date marking one year since Russia launched its fool flash war and plunged the center of the European continent into violence, bloodshed, and devastation, the needs and suffering of people on the ground should be our primary focus.”
“To this end,” he continued, “Ukraine, together with more than 30 member states, will initiate a high-level event on the 22nd of February to address gross human rights violations due to the aggression against Ukraine.”
