MALI / ANNADIF GAO PEACEKEEPERS

After two separate incidents that took place Monday in the Gao area of Mali’s restive north, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Mali, Mahamat Saleh Annadif, told reporters in Bamako that “every minute, any wasted time in implementing the peace agreement is therefore time gained for the enemies of peace.” MINUSMA

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:03:00
• Production Date: 2 June 2016
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: MAHAMAT SALEH ANNADIF
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS MULTIDIMENSIONAL INTEGRATED STABILIZATION MISSION IN MALI - MINUSMA
• Subject Topical: PEACEKEEPERS; TERRORISM
• Geographic Subject: MALI
• MAMS Id: 1635216
• Parent Id: 1635216
• Alternate Title: unifeed160602e

Description

STORY: MALI / ANNADIF GAO PEACEKEEPERS
TRT: 03:00
SOURCE: MINUSMA
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: FRENCH / NATS

DATELINE: 2 JUNE 2014, BAMAKO, MALI / 2 JUNE 2014, GAO, MALI

Shotlist

2 JUNE 2014, BAMAKO, MALI

1. Wide shot, dais
2. Med shot, press
3. SOUNDBITE (French) Mahamat Saleh Annadif, Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Mali:
“I have always repeated that the best way to achieve the peace in Mali is to implement the peace agreement. The best way to fight terrorists and to isolate them is to effectively implement this peace agreement. Every minute, any wasted time in implementing the peace agreement is time gained for the enemies of peace.”
4. Close up, reporter’s notepad
5. SOUNDBITE (French) Mahamat Saleh Annadif, Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Mali:
“I think that we at MINUSMA must exercise our own self-criticism. There are a certain number of things at our disposition that we should make better use of for us to be more pro-active, more dissuasive and in this area we must show that we are capable.”

2 JUNE 2014, GAO, MALI

6. Wide shot, Annadif’s arrival in Gao
7. Wide shot, motorcade arriving at site of attacks
8. Various shots, Annadif touring attack site
9. Various shots, Annadif visiting injured soldiers

Storyline

After two separate incidents that took place Monday in the Gao area of Mali’s restive north, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Mali, Mahamat Saleh Annadif, told reporters in Bamako today (2 June) that “every minute, any wasted time in implementing the peace agreement is therefore time gained for the enemies of peace.”

Terrorists attacked an outpost of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission (MINUSMA), as well as the services of a local provider for the UN Mine Action Service (UNMAS), the most recent in a string of deadly attacks against the UN in the country.

Annadif said that MINUSMA “must exercise our own self-criticism” as “there are a certain number of things at our disposition that we should make better use of for us to be more pro-active, more dissuasive and in this area we must show that we are capable.”

Later in the day, Annadif flew to Gao where he toured the site of the attacks and visited injured peacekeepers.

One peacekeeper from China was killed and a dozen UN personnel were injured when a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device detonated at the MINUSMA camp. In the second incident, one civilian contractor from France and two security guards from Mali were killed when the camp of a UN contractor, in another area of the city, was attacked by unknown assailants.