SOUTH SUDAN / HILDE JOHNSON

The head of the United Nations mission in South Sudan Hilde Johnson met with  President Salva Kiir earlier this morning (30 May) to discus the new mandate for UNMISS and to inform the president that she will be leaving the mission. UNMISS

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:00:46
• Production Date: 30 May 2014
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS MISSION IN SOUTH SUDAN – UNMISS
• Subject Topical: PEACE AND SECURITY; REFUGEES; DISPLACED PERSONS; DISASTER PREVENTION; DISASTER PREPAREDNESS; DISASTER RELIEF; HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE
• Geographic Subject: SOUTH SUDAN
• MAMS Id: 1025366

Description

STORY: SOUTH SUDAN / HILDE JOHNSON
TRT: 0:46
SOURCE: UNMISS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/NATS

DATELINE: MAY 30, JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN

Shotlist

1. Wide shot, Salva Kiir greeting Hilde Johnson
2. Variouis shots, Kiir and Johnson
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Hilde Johnson, Special Representative of the Secretary General for South Sudan, United Nations:
“I informed the president that by Independence Day in July, I will have completed my three years as a Special Representative which is much more than usual for SRSG in a Peace Keeping Mission of this nature and in particular also with the crisis we have gone through. So I informed the president that I have come to the end of my term and I will be departing South Sudan. It has been a real honor to serve and I will be still here for a few weeks but South Sudan has a strong place in my heart and will continue to have that.”

Storyline

The head of the United Nations mission in South Sudan Hilde Johnson met with President Salva Kiir earlier this morning (30 May) to discus the new mandate for UNMISS and to inform the president that she will be leaving the mission.

Effective 1 July, Johnson will have completed her three years as special representative. She told the president her time serving here was, “much more unusual” particularly given the current conflict.

Johnson said it has been “a real honor to serve” and that “South Sudan has a strong place in my heart and will continue to have that.”