SOUTH SUDAN / SECURITY COUNCIL MOGAE

As the United Nations Security Council wrapped up a three-day visit to South Sudan, the Chairperson of the commission monitoring the peace agreement said the visit was evidence that the international community is “determined to bring peace to South Sudan.” UNIFEED - UNMISS

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:35
• Production Date: 6 September 2016
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: FESTUS MOGAE; SAMANTHA POWER
• Corporate Name: SECURITY COUNCIL; UNITED NATIONS MISSION IN SOUTH SUDAN – UNMISS
• Subject Topical: PEACE PROCESS
• Geographic Subject: SOUTH SUDAN
• MAMS Id: 1702037
• Parent Id: 1702037
• Alternate Title: unifeed160906g

Description

STORY: SOUTH SUDAN / SECURITY COUNCIL MOGAE
TRT: 02:35
SOURCE: UNMISS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 5, 6 SEPTEMBER 2016, JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN

Shotlist

6 SEPTEMBER 2016, JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN

1. Med shot, JMEC Chairperson Festus Mogae being interviewed
2. Close up, journalist’s notes
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Festus Mogae, Chairperson, Joint Monitoring Evaluation Commission (JMEC):
“As evidenced by the visit of the Security Council of the United Nations, the international community are determined to bring peace to South Sudan.”
4. Close up, Mogae’s hands
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Festus Mogae, Chairperson, Joint Monitoring Evaluation Commission (JMEC):
“There was serious misgivings on the part of the government, because it felt that this was an invasion force which was going to violate their sovereignty. And we, and they had to explain as much as possible that was not the case because it was said that they are going to work collaboratively with the government.”
6. Close up, Mogae
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Festus Mogae, Chairperson, Joint Monitoring Evaluation Commission (JMEC):
“The envisaged protection force is nothing but what it says; a protection force, protection of civilians in every word, here, including key institutions that are important to the nation and to everybody here.”
8. Med shot, end of interview

5 SEPTEMBER 2016, JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN

9. Wide shot, Security Council delegation motorcade
10. Wide shot, US Ambassador Samantha Power walking on tarmac
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Samantha Power, Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations:
“I think there was a lot of mistrust between the Security Council and the Government of National Unity, the transitional government, and we have the UN General Assembly coming up, where a large South Sudanese delegation is going to be coming to New York. I think that we, I certainly personally will see if we can build upon the conversations we had here, make sure that there has been followed through for what’s been committed to last night, and hope that we have a new partnership.”
12. Wide shot, Senegalese Ambassador Fodé Seck walking to plane
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Fodé Seck, Permanent Representative of Senegal to the United Nations:
“Composition, generation, and deployment, takes time. But as you read again in the communiqué, by the end of September things must get moving. And you have seen it in the resolution creating the force, authorizing the creation of the force; the force will be deployed until the end of December.”
14. Various shots, Security Council delegation leaving South Sudan

Storyline

As the United Nations Security Council wrapped up a three-day visit to South Sudan, the Chairperson of the commission monitoring the peace agreement today (6 Sep) said the visit was evidence that the international community is “determined to bring peace to South Sudan.”

Festus Mogae, who is the Chairperson of the Joint Monitoring Evaluation Commission (JMEC) said “there was serious misgivings on the part of the government, because it felt that this was an invasion force which was going to violate their sovereignty.”

Mogae said the delegation stressed the message that the force is “going to work collaboratively with the government.”

The envisaged protection force, he said “is nothing but what it says; a protection force, protection of civilians in every word, here, including key institutions that are important to the nation and to everybody here.”

Before departing on Sunday, United States Ambassador Samantha Power said “there was a lot of mistrust between the Security Council and the Government of National Unity, adding that she expected to meet South Sudanese officials during this month’s General Assembly debate in New York, to “see if we can build upon the conversations we had here, make sure that there has been followed through for what’s been committed to last night, and hope that we have a new partnership.”

Senegalese Ambassador Fodé Seck, said “composition, generation, and deployment, takes time. But as you read again in the communiqué, by the end of September things must get moving. And you have seen it in the resolution creating the force, authorizing the creation of the force; the force will be deployed until the end of December.”

The visit followed the Council's recent renewal of the mandate of the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), which included the approval of a 4,000-strong regional protection force to aid with security in the capital, Juba. It also came before the UN Secretary-General has to provide his first report on the progress achieved in implementing the new mandate.

A joint communique issued on Sunday indicates that the government is committed to remove impediments to the ability of UNMISS to implement its mandate. This would include reviewing procedures related to movement of UNMISS and streamlining bureaucratic processes.