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SOUTH SUDAN / SHEARER PEACE AGREEMENT
STORY: SOUTH SUDAN / SHEARER PEACE AGREEMENT
TRT: 02:04
SOURCE: UNMISS /FILE
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
DATELINE: 19 SEPTEMBER 2018, JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN /FILE
19 SEPTEMBER 2018, JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN
1. Wide shot, press conference
2. SOUNDBITE English) David Shearer Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for South Sudan:
“The important point is that with the Agreement being signed last Wednesday, and the disengagement of those forces, that means they should pull back so they are not in a position where they need to, or might be prone to going into conflict with each other, and that is what we are wanting to see so that we have peace in that area.”
3. Wide shot, presser
4. Close up, reporter
5. SOUNDBITE English) David Shearer Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for South Sudan:
“I think that most people have said, and pretty much overwhelmingly, that everybody is positive about the Peace Agreement going forward, one. Two, it’s the only peace agreement that’s on the table at the moment. So, in a way, we don’t have a Plan B, this is it, that’s certainly our position. Thirdly, everybody is expressing, and I even picked this up in Juba when I’m talking to South Sudanese and others, people are positive about it but cautious about it because they’ve been through this before. So, people would like to see real action on the ground.”
6. Cutaway, presser
7. SOUNDBITE English) David Shearer Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for South Sudan:
“Well funding is going to be necessary. I think what people need to do first is to digest what is in the Agreement, understand what is coming down the track next and then, feeling that this is something that they want to get behind, at that point, where there’s a demonstration on the ground that it is going forward, I think funding will be more likely to come.”
12 SEPTEMBER 2018, ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA
8. Various shots, signing of peace agreement
A top United Nations official in South Sudan welcomed the signing of the peace agreement between warring parties last week in Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa and called for pulling out of armed units to avoid “going into conflict with each other.”
Speaking at a press conference Wednesday (19 Sep) in the South Sudanese capital Juba, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for South Sudan David Shearer said a key ingredient missing between the parties is trust. However, he welcomed news that President Salva Kiir telephoned his opposition counterpart in-exile, Riek Machar, to discuss the clashes as a sign that they are working on their relationship.
SOUNDBITE English) David Shearer Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for South Sudan:
“I think that most people have said, and pretty much overwhelmingly, that everybody is positive about the Peace Agreement going forward, one. Two, it’s the only peace agreement that’s on the table at the moment. So, in a way, we don’t have a Plan B, this is it, that’s certainly our position. Thirdly, everybody is expressing, and I even picked this up in Juba when I’m talking to South Sudanese and others, people are positive about it but cautious about it because they’ve been through this before. So, people would like to see real action on the ground.”
Just a week ago, the leaders of South Sudan came together in a public display of unity to sign a fresh commitment to peace in the hope of ending the five-year civil war.
However, despite an agreement for their armed forces to disengage within 72 hours, there have been fresh clashes in the central Equatorian region as well as the shooting of a Nepalese peacekeeper on a convoy in the town of Yei.
SOUNDBITE English) David Shearer Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for South Sudan:
“Well funding is going to be necessary. I think what people need to do first is to digest what is in the Agreement, understand what is coming down the track next and then, feeling that this is something that they want to get behind, at that point, where there’s a demonstration on the ground that it is going forward, I think funding will be more likely to come.”
Discussions about funding and other support for the implementation of the Peace Agreement will continue among the parties, regional leaders, and UN Member States in New York next week.
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