SOUTH SUDAN / LADSOUS PRESSER

The United Nations peacekeeping chief Hervé Ladsous told reporters today in Juba the UN will begin deploying a regional protection force to South Sudanese capital “in the next few weeks.” UNMISS

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:56
• Production Date: 21 March 2017
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: HERVÉ LADSOUS
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS MISSION IN SOUTH SUDAN – UNMISS
• Subject Topical: CONFLICT SITUATION; FOOD SECURITY; HUNGER; PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS
• Geographic Subject: SOUTH SUDAN
• MAMS Id: 1853031
• Parent Id: 1853031
• Alternate Title: unifeed170321b

Description

STORY: SOUTH SUDAN / LADSOUS PRESSER
TRT: 02:56
SOURCE: UNMISS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 21 MARCH 2017, JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN

Shotlist

1. Various shot, meeting room
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Hervé Ladsous, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, United Nations:
“The deployment of the regional protection force; we are working actively on it. We did lose time because there were number of slownesses in getting clearances, authorizations, here but we are sparing no efforts to speed up. And I think I can say that in the next few weeks you will see the first vanguard of the regional protection force being deployed, actually, here in Juba. And that I think will be a very important signal, you know, that things are moving.”
3. Med shot, David Shearer at presser
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Hervé Ladsous, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, United Nations:
“The continuation of hostility is not a solution because there will always be a group or sub-group, and we do not fail to notice that there are further division, further defections, that picture is getting very complex indeed. So you cannot hope that a solution will come by the use of weapons. The solution has to be political.”
5. Close up, journalist
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Hervé Ladsous, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, United Nations:
“It is a tragic situation and I believe two counties in Unity, Mayendit and Leer, have been formerly declare in a state of famine, and that is not going to improve because right now would be normally the planting, the crop planting season, but farmers simply are not there, are moving around, or have gone abroad; and so the mitigation of the famine after the next cropping season is not going to happen in a satisfactory way.”
7. Med shot, videographers
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Hervé Ladsous, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, United Nations:
“South Sudan is one of the countries in the world where we had the most incident of humanitarian workers being prevented from doing their work, for humanitarian workers being actually killed or injured while on the job, so I welcome, of course, the assurances of the president that this is not going to happen further.”
9. Tracking shot, President Silva Kiir shaking hands with Ladsous
10. Wide shot, meeting between Ladsous and South Sudanese President
11. Med shot, Ladsous leaving presidential palace

Storyline

The United Nations peacekeeping chief Hervé Ladsous told reporters in Juba the UN will begin deploying a regional protection force to South Sudanese capital “in the next few weeks.”

Speaking today (21 Mar) at the end of a two-day visit to the country, Ladsous said the UN “was sparing no effort to speed up” the deployment of the Security Council mandated force adding that some time was lost due to a “number of slownesses in getting clearances.” He said the first troops to arrive for the regional protection force will be from Rwanda, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Ethiopia. The 4,000-strong protection force was authorized by the Security Council in August of last year in response to a surge in violence in the country. Ladsous stressed that the solution to South Sudanese crisis was political adding that parties to the conflict could not “come by the use of weapons.”

Ladsous said the situation in Unity State was tragic as two counties were already experiencing famine. He said the situation was not going to improve as farmers were not in those areas for crop planting season.

Earlier today, the peacekeeping chief met the South Sudanese President Salva Kiir and discussed the challenges hindering the work of humanitarian workers in the country. Ladsous told reporters South Sudan was “one of the countries in the world where we had the most incident of humanitarian workers being prevented from doing their work, (and) for humanitarian workers being actually killed or injured while on the job.” He welcomed the assurances given to him by President Kiir “that this is not going to happen further.”