UN / SOUTH SUDAN

Secretary-General António Guterres told the Security Council that The conflict in South Sudan “continues to generate profound suffering” to civilians, “who face seemingly endless violence and are being forced to flee their homes.” The Council issued a statement expressing “deep alarm” at the situation in the country. UNIFEED

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:42
• Production Date: 23 March 2017
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: ANTONIO GUTERRES; BORIS JOHNSON
• Corporate Name: SECURITY COUNCIL
• Subject Topical: HUMANITARIAN CRISIS; HUNGER; PEACE AGREEMENTS; PEACE AND SECURITY
• Geographic Subject: SOUTH SUDAN
• MAMS Id: 1854875
• Parent Id: 1854875
• Alternate Title: unifeed170323e

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STORY: UN / SOUTH SUDAN
TRT: 02:42
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 23 MARCH 2017, NEW YORK CITY / FILE

Shotlist

FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters

21 MARCH 2017, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“The conflict in South Sudan continues to generate profound suffering. The Sudan People’s Liberation Army and the opposition are conducting military operations in a number of areas, with devastating consequences for civilians, who face seemingly endless violence and are being forced to flee their homes.”
4. Med shot, delegates
5. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“The humanitarian crisis continues to deepen. One hundred thousand people are enduring famine, one million are on the verge of that fate, and 5.5 million may be severely food insecure by this summer. At least 7.5 million people across South Sudan, almost two thirds of the population, need humanitarian assistance. Three years of conflict have eroded livelihoods and disrupted farming, including in the Equatorias, the country’s breadbasket.”
6. Med shot, delegates
7. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“There is a strong consensus that South Sudanese leaders need to do more to demonstrate their commitment to the well-being of the country’s people, who are among the poorest in the world. If there is to be any hope of those leaders changing their current calculations, greater pressure is needed. This means first and foremost that the region and the Security Council must speak with one voice.”
8. Med shot, delegates
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Boris Johnson, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, United Kingdom:
“The Security Council expresses deep alarm at the situation in South Sudan, stresses again that there is no military solution to the conflict, and renews its condemnation of continued fighting across the country. The Security Council reiterates its call upon all parties to immediately adhere to the permanent ceasefire as called for in the agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in South Sudan.”
10. Med shot, delegates
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Boris Johnson, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, United Kingdom:
“The Security Council condemns any undermining of the ceasefire and restrictions and attacks on humanitarian personnel and their facilities as well as on the United Nations Mission in the Republic of South Sudan (UNMISS) to the delivery of humanitarian assistance, especially to famine-affected locations and calls for an immediate cessation of such actions and immediate and unhindered access to all those in need.”
11. Wide shot, Council

Storyline

Secretary-General António Guterres told the Security Council today (23 Mar) that the conflict in South Sudan “continues to generate profound suffering” to civilians, “who face seemingly endless violence and are being forced to flee their homes.”

The Secretary-General stressed that the humanitarian crisis in the country “continues to deepen.”

He said “one hundred thousand people are enduring famine, one million are on the verge of that fate, and 5.5 million may be severely food insecure by this summer. At least 7.5 million people across South Sudan, almost two thirds of the population, need humanitarian assistance.

Three years of conflict, the Secretary-General added, “have eroded livelihoods and disrupted farming, including in the Equatorias, the country’s breadbasket.”

Guterres said “there is a strong consensus that South Sudanese leaders need to do more to demonstrate their commitment to the well-being of the country’s people, who are among the poorest in the world.”

He called for greater pressure on them “if there is to be any hope of those leaders changing their current calculations” and said “the region and the Security Council must speak with one voice.”

The Council issued a statement, read by the United Kingdom’s Secretary of State, expressing “deep alarm” at the situation in the country.

The Council reiterated its call upon all parties “to immediately adhere to the permanent ceasefire as called for in the agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in South Sudan.”

The Council statement also condemned “any undermining of the ceasefire and restrictions and attacks on humanitarian personnel and their facilities as well as on the United Nations Mission in the Republic of South Sudan (UNMISS) to the delivery of humanitarian assistance, especially to famine-affected locations and calls for an immediate cessation of such actions and immediate and unhindered access to all those in need.”