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STORY: UN / CAR MINUSCA
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DATELINE: 12 JUNE 2017, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
12 JUNE 2017, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Parfait Onanga-Anyanga, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the Central African Republic and Head of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA):
“MINUSCA has been under harsh public criticism within CAR. The accusations are effectively an expression of the frustration over the State’s flagrant lack of capacities. They and also reflects the population’s impatience over the persistent insecurity, which is unfortunately largely self-inflicted. Sadly, much of this criticism mirrors the deep divisions that persist in CAR, with each side expecting MINUSCA to fight its perceived enemy.”
4. Med shot, CAR Ambassador Ambroisine Kpongo
5. SOUNDBITE (French) Parfait Onanga-Anyanga, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the Central African Republic and Head of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA):
“No single person or institution will make it alone. But all together, and there can be no doubt as to this, we will be successful in seeing the Central African Republic break definitively with the infernal cycle of recurring conflict so it can finally embrace forcefully, in a determined way, the greatness with its rich heritage and huge potential predisposes to.”
6. Wide shot Security Council with ASG Andrew Gilmour on screen
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Andrew Gilmour. Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights:
“While police, justice, and corrections officials have begun to deploy in several parts of the country, they continue to lack many of the resources to carry out their functions. And I believe we must step up efforts to build the capacity of police, justice and corrections authorities especially in those areas mist affected by the conflict. Re-establishing such services is crucial to avoid fuelling further resentment. In order to build on the positive momentum that the launch of the Mapping report has successfully created, I really hope that the Council can support the Central Africans and MINUSCA’s incredible efforts in such truly difficult circumstances by providing the means to implement its mandate to protect civilians, to fight impunity and to support institution building, without which we simply cannot succeed in our common goals.”
8. Wide shot, Council
9. SOUNDBITE (French) Ambroisine Kpongo, Permanent Representative of the Central African Republic to the United Nations:
“In addition to all that MINUSCA has already done, and so positively, in the area of security by displaying a proactive and muscular posture to respond to the threat posed by armed groups, it is time to endow them with greater resources so they can do more. The presence of the armed groups means that the quest for peace will be difficult.”
10. Wide shot, Council
The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the Central African Republic, Parfait Onanga-Anyanga, told the Security Council today that the UN mission in that country “has been under harsh public criticism” reflecting “the frustration over the State’s flagrant lack of capacities.”
Onanga-Anyanga, who is also the Head of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA,) said this “also reflects the population’s impatience over the persistent insecurity, which is unfortunately largely self-inflicted.”
Sadly, he said “much of this criticism mirrors the deep divisions that persist in CAR, with each side expecting MINUSCA to fight its perceived enemy.”
The Special-Representative stressed that the Central African Republic is on a path to incremental peace that will be achieved if we stay the course. However, he said, this will not be enough. He noted that we are now in a critical phase and that the UN Mission must continue to consolidate progress towards peace.
He said “no single person or institution will make it alone. But all together, and there can be no doubt as to this, we will be successful in seeing the Central African Republic break definitively with the infernal cycle of recurring conflict so it can finally embrace forcefully, in a determined way, the greatness with its rich heritage and huge potential predisposes to.”
Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights, Andrew Gilmour, also briefed on the new human rights Mapping Report in the CAR.
He stressed the need to send an unequivocal message to the perpetrators of violations that they will be held accountable.
Gilmour said that “while police, justice, and corrections officials have begun to deploy in several parts of the country, they continue to lack many of the resources to carry out their functions.”
He said “re-establishing such services is crucial to avoid fueling further resentment. In order to build on the positive momentum that the launch of the Mapping report has successfully created, I really hope that the Council can support the Central Africans and MINUSCA’s incredible efforts in such truly difficult circumstances by providing the means to implement its mandate to protect civilians, to fight impunity and to support institution building, without which we simply cannot succeed in our common goals.”
For her part, the Central African Republic’s Ambassador Ambroisine Kpongo, said “in addition to all that MINUSCA has already done, and so positively, in the area of security by displaying a proactive and muscular posture to respond to the threat posed by armed groups, it is time to endow them with greater resources so they can do more. The presence of the armed groups means that the quest for peace will be difficult.”
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