SOUTH SUDAN 2/ SECURITY COUNCIL KIIR

The United Nations Security Council has repeated threats to impose sanctions on South Sudan if conflict in the country continues. UNMISS

 

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:05
• Production Date: 12 August 2014
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS MISSION IN SOUTH SUDAN – UNMISS
• Subject Topical: POLITICAL CONDITIONS; POLITICAL MOVEMENTS; INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; PEACE AND SECURITY
• Geographic Subject: SOUTH SUDAN
• MAMS Id: 1147229

Description

STORY: SOUTH SUDAN 2 / SECURITY COUNCIL KIIR
TRT: 2:05
SOURCE: UNMISS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /NATS

DATELINE: 12 AUGUST 2014, JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN

Shotlist

1. Various of Security Council in meeting room
2. Med shot, ,President of South Sudan Salva Kiir walking into meeting room and shaking hands with President of the Council and one other Security Council member
3. Med shot, President Kiir seated in meeting with Security Council
4. Med shot, Security Council President Mark Lyall Grant
5. Cutaway, journalists
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Ambassador Mark Lyall Grant,
President of the United Nations Security Council:
"The Security Council express its readiness to consider in consultation with relevant parties including IGAD and the African Union all appropriate measures including targeted sanctions against those who take action did undermine the peace stability and security of South Sudan including those who prevent implementation of this agreement there is a very clear statement by all fifteen members of the security council that there will be consequences for those who try to undermine agreement there with Addis Ababa talks.”
7. Med shot, journalists
8. Med shot, Ambassador Samantha Power
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Ambassador Samantha Power, Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations:
“This Security Council visit comes in a way as an emergency visit to this country to underscore to the leadership here just how important it is to follow through on the commitments made to put together a transitional governing body in a run up to election we will engage Riek Machar as well probably tomorrow and we will deliver a very tuft massage to him as well that the international community will not tolerate the violation of the secession of hostility and the people who spoil the peace agreement people who commit growth violation of human rights must be held accountable.”
9. Med shot, journalists

Storyline

The United Nations Security Council has repeated threats to impose sanctions on South Sudan if conflict in the country continues.

Speaking in South Sudan’s capital Juba, after meeting with the country’s President Salva Kiir, the Security Council President, Ambassador said calls for possible sanctions against South Sudan were made five days ago ahead of the Security Council’s travel to troubled South Sudan, where unrest started in mid-December 2013.

The Council’s trip to the conflict ridden country is expected to push for peace, and comes just after the lapse of an agreed deadline expected to form a transitional government.

The fifteen member Council arrived in South Sudan to personally deliver messages to leaders of warring factions, and to see for themselves the effects of fierce conflict.

SOUNDBITE (English) Ambassador Mark Lyall Grant,President of the United Nations Security Council:
"The Security Council express its readiness to consider in consultation with relevant parties including IGAD and the African Union all appropriate measures including targeted sanctions against those who take action did undermine the peace stability and security of South Sudan including those who prevent implementation of this agreement there is a very clear statement by all fifteen members of the security council that there will be consequences for those who try to undermine agreement there with Addis Ababa talks.”

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.

SOUNDBITE (English) Ambassador Samantha Power, Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations:
“This Security Council visit comes in a way as an emergency visit to this country to underscore to the leadership here just how important it is to follow through on the commitments made to put together a transitional governing body in a run up to election we will engage Riek Machar as well probably tomorrow and we will deliver a very tuft massage to him as well that the international community will not tolerate the violation of the secession of hostility and the people who spoil the peace agreement people who commit growth violation of human rights must be held accountable.”

In a statement last week, the Security Council strongly condemned the reported and ongoing human rights violations and abuses and violations of international humanitarian law, including those involving extrajudicial killings, ethnically targeted violence, sexual and gender-based violence, rape, recruitment, and use of children, enforced disappearances, arbitrary arrests and detention, violence aimed at spreading terror among the civilian population, and attacks on schools and hospitals as well as United Nations peacekeeping personnel, by all parties, including armed groups and national security forces, saying that such acts may amount to war crimes or crimes against humanity under international law.

In their statement, they emphasized the need to ensure accountability for serious violations and abuses of human rights and serious violations of international humanitarian law. In that regard, the Security Council underscored the importance of the ongoing work of the AU Commission of Inquiry and looks forward to its findings and recommendations, and welcomes UNMISS efforts to continue to monitor, investigate and publicly report on human rights violations and abuses in pursuit of justice and an end to impunity, as set out in resolution 2155 (2014).

Underscoring grave concern of the catastrophic food insecurity situation in South Sudan that may soon reach the threshold of famine as a result of continued conflict, the Council calls upon President Salva Kiir, former Vice President Riek Machar and all parties to implement the Agreement to Resolve the Crisis in South Sudan Security Council urgently signed on May 9, 2014 by the Republic of South Sudan and the SPLM/A (in Opposition), to engage fully and inclusively in ongoing peace talks in Addis Ababa, and uphold their commitment to establish a Transitional Government of National Unity by the deadline of August 10, 2014.