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SOUTH SUDAN 1 / SECURITY COUNCIL ARRIVALS
STORY: SOUTH SUDAN 1 / SECURITY COUNCIL ARRIVALS
TRT: 1:53
SOURCE: UNMISS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /NATS
DATELINE: 12 AUGUST 2014, JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN
1. Wide shot, airplane carrying Security Council airborne and readying to land
2. Med shot, plane taxing on runway
3. Various shots, members of the Security Council descending from plane
4. Various shots, members of the Security Council shaking hands with various UNMISS dignitaries and some government ministers
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Barnabas Marial Benjamin, Foreign Affairs Minister of South Sudan:
“On behalf of the government and the people of South Sudan, we are welcoming this morning the delegation of the United Nations Security Council. They are visiting South Sudan where they will be able to first meet the president.”
6. Various shots, UN Security Council Members in closed door meeting with leadership from the United Nations Mission in South Sudan
STORYINE:
Fifteen members of the United Nations Security Council have arrived in South Sudan in a bid to end the violence that has gripped the country since December last year.
Their visit will include a meeting with the president of South Sudan Salva Kiir and his vice-president Wani Igga, various humanitarian agencies working in South Sudan and members of the civil society.
The members are also expected to visit protection of civilian sites, where thousands of South Sudanese fleeing conflict have sought refuge. An estimated 1.5 million people have been uprooted in fighting that started with a political impasse in mid-December 2013 between President Salva Kiir and former Vice President Riek Machar. The conflict also sent nearly 100,000 civilians fleeing to UN bases around the country.
Meeting the Council at Juba international airport were Foreign Affairs minister Barnabas Marial Benjamin and Minister of Cabinet Affairs Ellia Lumoro, who welcomed Council’s members on behalf of the president Kiir.
Last week on August 8th, the Security Council issued a press statement, expressing their concern with the deterioration of the political and security situation and the developing humanitarian catastrophe in South Sudan. The Security Council said it was ready to consider "all appropriate measures including targeted sanctions' against those who undermine the peace, stability and security of South Sudan."
In a presidential statement read by the Council's current president, United Kingdoms' ambassador Mark Lyall Grant, the Security Council expressed "grave alarm and concern" regarding the substantial deterioration of the political and security situation and developing humanitarian catastrophe in South Sudan, the result of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) internal political dispute and unrelenting violence since December 2013.
It "strongly condemned" repeated violations of the Cessation of Hostilities Agreement accepted and signed by the warring parties on January 23, 2014 and had warned both the president Salva Kiir and former Vice President Riek Machar against pursuing "a military solution to this conflict are unacceptable."
The Security Council also "underscored its grave concern about the catastrophic food insecurity situation in South Sudan that may soon reach the threshold of famine' as a direct result of the conflict and had stressed the responsibility "borne by all parties to the conflict for the suffering of the people of South Sudan" and the necessity of ensuring that "the basic needs of the population are met."
Some 3.9 million civilians are facing alarming levels of food insecurity, amidst growing concerns of a famine. Meanwhile, among the more than million people have been internally displaced by violence, some 434,000 have fled across borders. Up to 50,000 children are at risk of dying as a consequence of acute malnutrition this year alone. And the cholera epidemic continues to grow with more than 5,300 cases and 115 deaths.
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