UN / CAR

Briefing the Security Council, the Head of the UN Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA), Parfait Onanga-Anyanga, said “the Secretary-General’s request to increase MINUSCA’s force levels by 900 troops is part of a comprehensive strategy to address the deteriorating situation.” UNIFEED / FILE

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:40
• Production Date: 6 November 2017
• Asset Language: English; French
• Personal Subject: ANTONIO GUTERRES
• Corporate Name: AFRICAN UNION - AU; SECURITY COUNCIL; UNITED NATIONS MULTIDIMENSIONAL INTEGRATED STABILIZATION MISSION IN CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - MINUSCA
• Subject Topical: PEACE AND SECURITY; SECRETARY-GENERAL
• Geographic Subject: CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
• MAMS Id: 2029328
• Parent Id: 2029328
• Alternate Title: unifeed171106a

Description

STORY: UN / CAR
TRT: 02:40
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / FRENCH / NATS

DATELINE: 06 NOVEMBER 2017, NEW YORK CITY / FILE

Shotlist

FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters

06 NOVEMBER 2017, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. Med shot, Central African Republic Ambassador Ambroisine Kpongo
4. 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):
“The Secretary-General’s request to increase MINUSCA’s force levels by 900 troops is part of a comprehensive strategy to address the deteriorating situation, working closely with the government and to create space to advance the political process. The proposed increase should include highly mobile troops that would provide the force with greater flexibility to rapidly deploy in areas of heightened threats to civilians.”
5. Med shot, delegates
6. 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):
“The mission I have the honour to lead will spare no efforts to help the government and the Central African authorities, as well as all national actors committed to peace, to realize the aspirations of their people, especially its valiant youth, women, and children, for a safer and more prosperous future.”
7. Wide shot Security Council with Bédializoun Moussa Nébié on screen
8. SOUNDBITE (French) Bédializoun Moussa Nébié, Special Representative of the African Union to the Central African Republic:
“The people of the Central African Republic have suffered enough. It is very urgent that the international community that you represent here take measures and concrete steps that are strong measures to ease this indescribable suffering.”
9. Med shot, delegates
10. SOUNDBITE (French) Ambroisine Kpongo, Permanent Representative of the Central African Republic to the United Nations:
“The recent visit of the Secretary General to Bangui is historic and symbolic and it is heavy with significance for the Central African people who have suffered so deeply. This was I am sure an opportunity for the Secretary-General and the large delegation that accompanied him, to come to grips with the scale of the challenges that we still must address, especially the security and humanitarian challenges.”
11. Wide shot, Council

27 OCTOBER 2017, BANGUI, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC

12. Med shot, Guterres shaking hands with local community representative
13. Tracking shot, Guterres shaking hands with people
14. Med shot, Guterres and local reps

Storyline

Briefing the Security Council today (6 Nov), the Head of the UN Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA), Parfait Onanga-Anyanga, said “the Secretary-General’s request to increase MINUSCA’s force levels by 900 troops is part of a comprehensive strategy to address the deteriorating situation.”

Stressing that the security situation in the country remains volatile and the humanitarian situation disastrous, he said “the proposed increase should include highly mobile troops that would provide the force with greater flexibility to rapidly deploy in areas of heightened threats to civilians.”

The Special Representative said MINUSCA “will spare no efforts to help the government and the Central African authorities, as well as all national actors committed to peace, to realize the aspirations of their people, especially its valiant youth, women, and children, for a safer and more prosperous future.”

Onanga-Anyanga emphasized the need to engage all in an inclusive political process, adding that stability in the country will require strong State institutions at the local level.

Briefing via teleconference from Bangui, the Special Representative of the African Union to the Central African Republic, Bédializoun Moussa Nébié, said “the people of the Central African Republic have suffered enough” and urged the Council to “take measures and concrete steps that are strong measures to ease this indescribable suffering.”

For her part, the Central African Republic Ambassador, Ambroisine Kpongo, said “the recent visit of the Secretary General to Bangui is historic and symbolic and it is heavy with significance for the Central African people who have suffered so deeply.”

She said, “this was I am sure an opportunity for the Secretary-General and the large delegation that accompanied him, to come to grips with the scale of the challenges that we still must address, especially the security and humanitarian challenges.”

Secretary-General Guterres four-day visit to the Central African Republic included paying tribute to the UN peacekeepers who died while serving the UN mission in the country.

Guterres met the country’s President Faustin-Archange Touadéra as well as religious leaders and civil societies representatives.