DRC / LACROIX

The head of United Nations peacekeeping operations on Saturday arrived in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) where he met with government officials and visited wounded Tanzanian peacekeepers at a local hospital. MONUSCO

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:07
• Production Date: 18 December 2017
• Asset Language: French
• Personal Subject: JEAN-PIERRE LACROIX
• Corporate Name: DEPARTMENT OF PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS - DPKO
• Subject Topical: CONFLICT SITUATION; PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS; VIOLENCE
• Geographic Subject: DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO; TANZANIA
• MAMS Id: 2062178
• Parent Id: 2062178
• Alternate Title: unifeed171218d

Description

STORY: DRC / LACROIX
TRT: 02:07
SOURCE: MONUSCO
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: FRENCH / NATS

DATELINE: 16 DECEMBER 2016, KINSHASA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO (DRC)

Shotlist

1. Wide shot, UN airplane arriving at N’Djili Airport
2. Pan right, USG LaCroix deplaning
3. Various shots, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
4. Various shots, USG LaCroix meeting DRC Minister of Foreign Affairs, Okitundu She
5. SOUNDBITE (French) Jean-Pierre Lacroix of France - Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations:
“We work together, and we must work together in the future to ensure to bring to justice those perpetrators for this monstrous deed because harming peacekeepers is a war crime and those responsible must be held accountable for their act, and we also need to work together to counter the acts of those armed groups that cause so much harm to the country and its population and that now do not hesitate to attack MONUSCO, the United Nations.”
6. Wide shot, exterior, Hopital Du Cinquantenaire
7. Med shot, Lacroix welcomed outside hospital
8. Various shots, Lacroix and delegation walking through hospital
9. Various shots, Lacroix visited wounded soldiers

Storyline

The head of United Nations peacekeeping operations on Saturday (16 Dec) arrived in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) where he met with government officials and visited wounded Tanzanian peacekeepers at a local hospital.

SOUNDBITE (French) Jean-Pierre Lacroix of France - Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations:
“We work together, and we must work together in the future to ensure to bring to justice those perpetrators for this monstrous deed because harming peacekeepers is a war crime and those responsible must be held accountable for their act, and we also need to work together to counter the acts of those armed groups that cause so much harm to the country and its population and that now do not hesitate to attack MONUSCO, the United Nations.”

14 peacekeepers were killed and more than 50 were injured in an attack by suspected Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) elements that took place at the base of the peacekeepers in Semiliki in North Kivu of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on 7 December.