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SOUTH SUDAN / SHEARER STRATEGIC REVIEW
STORY: SOUTH SUDAN / SHEARER STRATEGIC REVIEW
TRT: 01:46
SOURCE: UNMISS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 16 NOVEMBER 2017, JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN / FILE
FILE - 30 AUGUST 2017, YAMBIO, SOUTH SUDAN
1. Wide shot, patrol vehicles
2. Tilt up, Rwandan patrol team
FILE - 29 JANUARY 2016, JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN
3. Med shot, Chinese patrol team inside the car
4. Wide shot, APC
FILE - 17 MAY 2017, ABUROC, SOUTH SUDAN
5. Wide shot, peacekeepers with IDP
6. Wide shot, APC with IDPs
7. Tilt Up, IDPs carrying humanitarian package
16 NOVEMBER 2017, JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN
8. Wide shot, press conference
9. Med shot, journalist
10. SOUNDBITE (English) David Shearer, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of UNMISS:
“What we would like to do through the strategic review that we are having here is to be able to canvass and understand some of the issues and the opinions of people here so that we can feed into that decision that will be made ultimately by the Security Council.”
FILE - 1 NOVEMBER 2017, BOR, SOUTH SUDAN
11. Various shots, IDPs at POC
12. Close up, scars from bullet wounds
13. Wide shot, IDPs at POC
FILE – UNDATED, BENTIU, SOUTH SUDAN
14. Wide Shot, peacekeeper guarding IDPs
16 NOVEMBER 2017, JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN
15. SOUNDBITE (English) David Shearer, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of UNMISS:
“We are not looking at the mandate not being renewed at the moment. There is no plan B, there is only plan A, that the mandate will be renewed. So, inshallah, I hope it is and we are able to continue as we are. If it does not, then we will frantically start planning.”
16. Various shots, press conference
A strategic review of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan’s (UNMISS) peacekeeping role in the conflict-affected country will begin later this month ahead of consideration of its mandate by the Security Council.
The current mandate, which came into force in December 2016, authorizes UNMISS to use “all necessary means” to protect civilians. It also authorizes the mission to monitor and investigate human rights, create conditions conducive to the delivery of humanitarian assistance, and to support the implementation of the peace agreement. That mandate expires next month.
In the next few weeks, a review team from the UN Headquarters will travel to South Sudan to consider the security and humanitarian situation, consult with a wide range of people in the capital as well as in more remote parts of the country. It will also speak with other South Sudanese groups based in Addis Ababa, including the opposition.
SOUNDBITE (English) David Shearer, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of UNMISS:
“What we would like to do through the strategic review that we are having here is to be able to canvass and understand some of the issues and the opinions of people here so that we can feed into that decision that will be made ultimately by the Security Council.”
It is the 15-member Security Council based in New York that will decide whether to extend the mandate, not UNMISS. The review team’s findings as well as other consultation processes will simply inform their decision-making.
The Security Council is expected to consider the issue of the UNMISS mandate at a meeting next month.
SOUNDBITE (English) David Shearer, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of UNMISS:
“We are not looking at the mandate not being renewed at the moment. There is no plan B, there is only plan A, that the mandate will be renewed. So, inshallah, I hope it is and we are able to continue as we are. If it does not, then we will frantically start planning.”
South Sudan has been plagued by ongoing conflict since the outbreak of civil war in 2013 - two years after the country won independence and joined the UN to become the world’s newest nation.
Four million people have fled to neighbouring countries to escape the violence or are internally displaced with 213,000 people living in sites protected by UN peacekeepers.
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