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STORY: UN / HAITI
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DATELINE: 05 OCTOBER 2020, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Aerial shot, exterior UN Headquarters
05 OCTOBER 2020, NEW YORK CITY
2. Med shot, Russian Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Helen La Lime, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH):
“As the police and judicial authorities struggle to address their persistent challenges in meeting the Haitian population’s legitimate demands for security and accountability, violence persists, and human rights violations continue to be committed. The widespread perception of impunity which these dynamics elicit can only be countervailed by ensuring that the rights of victims of human rights violations and abuses are upheld and that perpetrators are held to account.”
4. Med shot, Nebenzia
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Helen La Lime, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH):
“The continued lack of trust between political forces is impeding all but the slightest progress on priorities that had previously garnered a wide consensus across the political spectrum, such as the necessity to undertake constitutional reform to better reflect current Haitian realities and address key shortcomings of the 1987 Constitution prior to holding new elections.”
6. Med shot, Nebenzia
7. SOUNDBITE (English) SOUNDBITE (English) Helen La Lime, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH):
“Above all else, it is the ability of Haiti’s political and economic classes to compromise and resolve their differences without resorting to violence, as well as the capacity of the country’s fledgling institutions to take the necessary steps that will determine whether free, fair and inclusive elections will be held in a conducive climate; whether attempts to restart the economy and put the country back on a positive development trajectory will succeed; and, whether the perennial issue of impunity will finally be addressed.”
8. Med shot, Nebenzia
The United Nations top official in Haiti today (5 Oct) told the Security Council that the country is once again struggling with instability and said, “the widespread perception of impunity” can only be countered “by ensuring that the rights of victims of human rights violations and abuses are upheld and that perpetrators are held to account.”
The Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH), Helen La Lime, said, “as the police and judicial authorities struggle to address their persistent challenges in meeting the Haitian population’s legitimate demands for security and accountability, violence persists, and human rights violations continue to be committed.”
Among other security incidents in the reporting period, on 28 August the president of the Port-au-Prince Bar Association, Monferrier Dorval, was assassinated.
La Lime said, “the continued lack of trust between political forces is impeding all but the slightest progress on priorities that had previously garnered a wide consensus across the political spectrum, such as the necessity to undertake constitutional reform to better reflect current Haitian realities and address key shortcomings of the 1987 Constitution prior to holding new elections.”
Above all else, she said, “it is the ability of Haiti’s political and economic classes to compromise and resolve their differences without resorting to violence, as well as the capacity of the country’s fledgling institutions to take the necessary steps that will determine whether free, fair and inclusive elections will be held in a conducive climate; whether attempts to restart the economy and put the country back on a positive development trajectory will succeed; and, whether the perennial issue of impunity will finally be addressed.”
The Council adopted a resolution renewing BINUH’s mandate.
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