(16 Dec 2024)
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Damascus, Syria – 16 December 2024
1. UN Convoy arriving outside hotel
2. UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Tom Fletcher, getting out of car
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Tom Fletcher, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, OCHA:
“We have ambitious plans. Much depends on the conversations we have with the authorities here. Much depends on whether we can secure the funding that we need from the international community. But we’re ready to go big. And, you know, this is a moment where we all have to rally around behind the Syrian people and to support them to rebuild security, justice, opportunity and the country that they deserve.”
4. Cutaway
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Tom Fletcher, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, OCHA:
“We want to get a massive flow of support into Syria, really scale up fast – food, medicine, shelter, but also the funds to redevelop the Syria that people can believe in again. We want a hopeful narrative for Syria, and that’s what I’m here to promote.”
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7. SOUNDBITE (English) Tom Fletcher, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, OCHA:
“It all depends on whether we have this sense of like open dialogue and a willingness to really scale up the partnership. But, you know, I think this is a very fluid time. Things are in motion, and we’ve got to be agile, creative, flexible.”
8. Gere Pederson, UN envoy to Syria, leaving hotel
STORYLINE:
The UN under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator said on Monday that he is in Syria to embark on "ambitious plans" for the country.
Tom Fletcher was in Damascus following the fall of the government of Syrian leader Bashar Assad, overthrown by insurgent groups.
Fletcher acknowledged, however, the situation in Syria remained volatile and unpredictable, saying "we’ve got to be agile, creative, flexible.”
The U.N. envoy for Syria, Geir Pedersen, called on Sunday for a quick end to Western sanctions as the rebel alliance that ousted Assad and sent him into exile in Russia a week ago considers the way forward.
Officials in Washington have indicated that the Biden administration is considering removing the terror designation from the group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS, which was once an al-Qaida affiliate.
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