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DATELINE: 5 APRIL 2016, NEW YORK CITY / 13 FEBRUARY 2016, KIDAL, MALI / RECENT
RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations Headquarters by drone
5 APRIL 2016, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council meeting
3. SOUNDBITE (French) Herve Ladsous, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, United Nations:
“Each day lost in the implementation of the peace agreement is a day gained for extremist and terrorist groups that have made the bet to lead to failure of the peace process in Mali and are targeting indiscriminately representatives of the Malian state, signatory groups and international forces Barkhane and the MINUSMA forces.”
4. Med shot, Foreign Minister of Mali attending the Security Council meeting
5. SOUNDBITE (French) Herve Ladsous, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, United Nations:
“We are willing in this respect to continue to explore with other actors, including the African Union, the ways and means to strengthen cooperation between countries in the sub-region in terms of intelligence and border security and control to fight against the expansion of the terrorist threat. I take note of the efforts of the subregion have already allowed the dismantling of some terrorist cells and also the arrest by the Malian authorities of the leader of Ansar-Dine for the southern region, Souleymane Keita and suspects in Grand Bassam bombing in separate operations.”
6. Pan left, Foreign Minister of Mali approaching the stakeout
RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
7. Med shot, cameras
5 APRIL 2016, NEW YORK CITY
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Abdoulaye Diop, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mali:
“In Mali today, for the past six months or so, we haven’t seen any fighting among the Malian parties. We hope that this will remain the trend. This means that if Malians are not fighting among themselves, the only threat, or the major threat, remains the activities of the terrorist networks, which by definition is transnational, regional, or global. For that to be addressed – the MINUSMA mandate is only for Mali while the threat is transnational. So we need to encourage and support the regional initiative – like the one coming from the G5 - the Sahel 5 countries - Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger Chad, and Mauritania, who have decided to pull their efforts and to put in place a regional mechanism to fight against the terrorist networks.”
13 FEBRUARY 2016, KIDAL, MALI
9. Pan right, soldiers clearing rubble from the UN compound
10. Wide shot, soldiers standing on top of a container
11. Tilt up, from destroyed equipment to a UN delegation visiting the attack site
12. Zoom out, soldiers on a truck bed through barbwire
United Nations (UN) peacekeeping chief Hervé Ladsous told the Security Council this morning (5 Apr) that while important steps had been achieved in the implementation of the peace agreement in Mali, progress was still too slow regarding defense and security.
Ladsous said “each day lost in the implementation of the peace agreement is a day gained for extremist and terrorist groups that have made the bet to lead to failure of the peace process in Mali.” He encouraged the government and the armed groups who signed the peace agreement to establish a timeline to resolve all pending questions of the agreement.
Ladsous also noted that the upsurge of insecurity in northern Mali and the Mopti region, combined with the rise of terrorism in the sub-region called for greater attention to the security threat in West Africa. He welcomed regional efforts to reduce the influence of terrorist groups against this threat and said that the UN stands ready to explore ways to “to strengthen cooperation between countries in the sub-region in terms of intelligence and border security and control to fight against the expansion of the terrorist threat.”
Speaking to reporters following the Security Council meeting, Malian Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop said his government was “absolutely confident” that the current mandate of the UN’s mission in Mali (MINUSMA) is not adequate to respond to the situation on the ground which is “mainly about the terrorism.” Diop said his government was looking for the operational capacity of MINUSMA to be strengthened to make it more proactive.
The Foreign Minister said in the past six months there hasn’t been any fighting among the Malian parties. He said if Malians are not fighting among themselves, the only threat remains the activities of the terrorist networks, which by definition is transnational, regional, or global.
The Agreement for Peace and Reconciliation in Mali was signed in June by the Coordination of Movements of Azawad (CMA), following its signature in May by the Government and a third party, the Platform coalition of armed groups.
In mid-February, a MINUSMA camp in the northern region of Kidal was attacked by the Ansar Dine terrorist group. The attacks left seven Guinean peacekeepers dead and more than 30 wounded. The militants reportedly used a vehicle packed with explosives to attack the base, before attacking it with mortar and machine gunfire.
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