SOUTH SUDAN / LADSOUS WRAP

United Nations (UN) peacekeeping chief Hervé Ladsous said a new page has been opened in the relations between South Sudan and the UN mission to the country (UNMISS). UNMISS

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:10
• Production Date: 13 June 2016
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: HERVÉ LADSOUS
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS MISSION IN SOUTH SUDAN – UNMISS
• Subject Topical: PEACE AND SECURITY; PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS
• Geographic Subject: SOUTH SUDAN
• MAMS Id: 1642734
• Parent Id: 1642734
• Alternate Title: unifeed160613a

Description

STORY: SOUTH SUDAN / LADSOUS WRAP
TRT: 2:11
SOURCE: UNMISS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 11-13 JUNE 2016, JUBA / MALAKAL / BENTIOU, SOUTH SUDAN

Shotlist

13 JUNE 2016, JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN

1. Wide shot, meeting room
2. Med shot, Special Representative Ellen Loej and her deputy
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Hervé Ladsous, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, United Nations:
“A new page has opened and the relationship of the United Nations with South Sudan similarly is now on a new footing.”
4. Med shot, reporters
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Hervé Ladsous, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, United Nations:
“Tension remains high in the region of Malakal. We know that it’s not easy. We also know there are a number of spoilers quite separate from SPLA (Sudan People’s Liberation Army) and IOs (opposition), who have their own plans and whose objective no doubt, in more than one case, is to try to throw a spanner in the works.”

12 JUNE 2016, MALAKAL SOUTH SUDAN

6. Various shots, Ladsous speaking to UNMISS personnel
7. Med shot, Ladsous getting into boat
8. Close shot, boat taking off
9. Wide shot, UNMISS boats

13 JUNE 2016, JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN

10. SOUNDBITE (English) Hervé Ladsous, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, United Nations:
“Both our military and our police components will do all they can, first of course about what is the core of our mandate which is the protection of civilians and everything to be done to isolate from the violence, but also to do everything we can to support the building of trust, confidence. That doesn’t happen overnight.”

11 JUNE 2016, BENTIOU, SOUTH SUDAN

11. Various shots, Ladsous walking with military and police personnel
12. Med shot, river
13. Wide shot, Ladsous speaking to UNMISS police personnel
14. Pan right, protection of civilians site

Storyline

United Nations (UN) peacekeeping chief Hervé Ladsous said a new page has been opened in the relations between South Sudan and the UN mission to the country.

Speaking to reporters in Juba today (13 Jun) at the end of a three day visit, Ladsous said the mission had positive views of the security situation despite several issues hindering the peace process which needed to be addressed. Ladsous pointed particularly to the tensions in Malakal. He said “spoilers” other than government and opposition forces had their “own plans and whose objective no doubt, in more than one case, is to try to throw a spanner in the works.”

The peacekeeping chief said the mission intended to remain as proactive as possible. He stressed that UNMISS military and police components would do all they can to protect civilians and build trust and confidence in the country. He said this would not happen overnight given the amount of issues that accumulated over time but it was a process and the end result must be national reconciliation.