UN / SOUTH SUDAN LADSOUS

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1. Wide shot, exterior of the UN Headquarters

26 APRIL 2016, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, Security Council Chamber
3. Close up, President banging gavel
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Hervé Ladsous, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, United Nations:
“After almost two and half years of conflict and of economic decline it is now more than half of the South Sudanese population in dire need of humanitarian assistance. The so-called coping mechanisms of people are exhausted. And for far too many, survival is a challenge of every minute.”
5. Cutaway, delegates
6. SOUNDBITE (French) Hervé Ladsous, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, United Nations:
“Generally, Mr. President, the situation remains precarious. Extremely precarious. But we need to take into account that in the last 48 hours we have seen positive development, starting with the return of Dr. Riek Machar to Juba.”
7. Cutaway, Security Council Chamber
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Hervé Ladsous, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, United Nations:
“The security situation in South Sudan remains precarious with intermittent fighting witnessed in several areas of the country. Of particular concern are the recent clashes between the SPLA and armed groups in Wau County in western Bahr el Ghazal, where is mostly SPLA against a group of young people, all these leading to killing and further displacement of the civilians.”
9. Cutaway, Security Council Chamber
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Hervé Ladsous, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations:
“The government continues to impose restrictions on the movement of UNMISS and of humanitarian workers in violation of the status of forces agreement. These restrictions, I am thinking in particular of those of night patrols in Juba have severely impacted the ability of the mission to move and to protect civilians as well as the ability of the United Nations to deliver the humanitarian assistance which is more than ever badly needed.”
11. Cutaway, South Sudanese ambassador at the meeting
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Hervé Ladsous, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations:
“Dissent is not tolerated, free speech is penalized and despite the government claims to the contrary, there is a real and deliberate environment of intimidation.”
13. Cutaway, delegates
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Hervé Ladsous, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations:
“The South Sudan’s peace process is extremely fragile. It will require concerted, sustained efforts at every level – national, regional, international.”
15. Wide shot, end of the meeting