(17 Sep 2024)
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Dubai, UAE - 17 September 2024
1. Josep Borrell, EU foreign policy chief sitting down at presser
2. Wide of Borrell at press conference
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Josep Borrell, EU foreign policy chief:
"Every day that the agreement is not being reached, It means more days for the hostages to be retained as prisoners, and more people being killed in the war."
4. Wide of conference and journalist asking question
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Josep Borrell, EU foreign policy chief:
“When President Biden announced a plan for a cease-fire, everybody was expecting it to be agreed and quickly. Unhappily, one day after another, the agreement is not there. So I cannot foresee what can happen in the next days or weeks. The only thing I can say is that all actors involved have to continue putting pressure on both parties to reach this agreement.”
6. Journalist asking question
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Josep Borrell, EU foreign policy chief:
"Allow me to say that Emirates is playing a very important role in providing humanitarian support to Gaza. It’s mainly or maybe the most effective support that anyone is providing in Gaza. Not only in quantity but on the capacity to reach the people inside Gaza. And also evacuations of the wounded to the Emirates hospitals and from here to other places in the world.”
8. Borrell sitting at press conference
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Josep Borrell, EU foreign policy chief:
“Certainly there is the possibility of the war spilling over not only to Lebanon, but also there’s already been an important fire in the Red Sea.”
10. Journalists at press conference
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Josep Borrell, EU foreign policy chief:
"You know that for the Egyptians the financial capacity is being very costly, every ship that has to go through the horn of Africa means less money for the Egyptians, and more time and more cost, and which means more price for the European consumers. So it’s not against Israel, it's against the freedom of navigation and about the economy of Egypt, so we have to protect it.”
13. Journalist asking question
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Josep Borrell, EU foreign policy chief:
“Just before the war in Gaza, the prospect were good for the situation in Yemen. The United Nations special representative, who has all of our support, was working in order to have a starting agreement. Unhappily then the war in Gaza came and everything became stalled. And it is still stalled. This is one the examples of the spillover effect of the war"
15. Borrell leaving
STORYLINE:
The European Union's top diplomat warned Tuesday that every day that passes without a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war risks the lives of the hostages held by the militants and of those in the Gaza Strip, as well as a regional war breaking out.

Josep Borrell, the EU foreign policy chief, came before journalists just after news broke from Lebanon of at least eight people being killed and another 2,750 others being wounded by exploding pagers across the country, including members of the militant group Hezbollah. Suspicion immediately fell on Israel, which earlier Tuesday stressed that halting Hezbollah’s attacks on Israel's north to allow residents to return to their homes was now an official war goal.

Borrell said he would seek more information from Beirut, where he just traveled from, but acknowledged it could escalate the already-boiling tensions in the region.

“Certainly there is the possibility of the war spilling over to Lebanon,” Borrell said.








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