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CAR / LACROIX TOUADERA
CAR / LACROIX TOUADERA
TRT: 2:55
SOURCE: MINUSCA
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: FRENCH /NATS
DATELINE: 29 OCTOBER 2020, BANGUI, CAR
1. Wide shot, CAR presidency
2. Med shot, CAR flag
3. Wide shot, Touadera enters, everyone standing
4. Various shots, Touadéra speeking in the meeting with the joint delegation AU-UN-CEEAC
5. SOUNDBITE (French), Jean-Pierre Lacroix, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations:
"Preparations are already advanced. Voters were registered in much better conditions than in the last election, with sophisticated technical tools and means to check and recheck who is on the lists and who is not. And we are confident that this process can be completed. But, of course, it is above all the Central Africans’ affair. It is essential that they be able to vote. The stronger the participation, the more the process will have marked the anchoring of democracy in the Central African Republic and the Central African people's attachment to the democratic process.”
6. Cutaway, Lacroix, Touadera and Chergui at the stakeout
7. SOUNDBITE (French) Gilberto da Piedade Veríssimo President of the Commission of the Economic Community of Central Africa (CEEAC):
“The election of December 27 is for us, the international community, and, in particular, the states of the Economic Community of Central Africa, the first step towards peace and development in the Central African Republic. The CAR is at the heart of our agenda and our strategy because, what is at stake here in the Central African Republic, is peace in the entire Central African region. This is the message we passed on to President Touadéra ".
8. Cutaway, Lacroix, Touadera and Chergui at the stakeout
9. SOUNDBITE (French), Smail Chergui, Peace and Security Commissioner, African Union:
"He reaffirmed his commitment to implementing the peace and reconciliation agreement in the Central African Republic and creating all the conditions necessary to hold the forthcoming elections in a peaceful environment. But also, so that the elections are transparent, regular, and giving the same possibilities to all the candidates who will be officially selected.”
10. Wide shot, departure of the members of the joint delegation
Speaking to reporters after a meeting with the president of Central African Republic Faustin-Archange Touadera, the UN peacekeeping chief Jean-Pierre Lacroix encouraged Central-Africans to go to polls at the elections in December. He said, “the stronger the participation, the more the process will have marked the anchoring of democracy in the Central African Republic.”
“It is essential that they be able to vote,” Lacroix underlined.
The United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, the African Union Peace and Security Commissioner, Ambassador Smaïl Chergui, and the Chairman of the Commission of the Economic Community of Central African States Ambassador Gilberto da Piedade Veríssimo, are in capital Bangui since October 27 for a four-day visit to the Central African Republic.
On Thursday (29 Oct) the high-level delegation met with the CAR’s president Faustin-Archange Touadéra. After the meeting dedicated mostly to the forthcoming elections, the three members of the delegation briefed the press.
"Preparations are already advanced,” Under-Secretary-General Lacroix said about elections. “Voters were registered in much better conditions than in the last election, with sophisticated technical tools and means to check and recheck who is on the lists and who is not. And we are confident that this process can be completed. But, of course, it is above all the business of the Central Africans. It is essential that they be able to vote. The stronger the participation, the more the process will have marked the anchoring of democracy in the Central African Republic and the Central African people's attachment to the democratic process.”
“The election of December 27 is for us, the international community, and, in particular, the states of the Economic Community of Central Africa, the first step towards peace and development in the Central African Republic,” said the President of the Commission of the Economic Community of Central Africa (CEEAC), Ambassador Gilberto da Piedade Veríssimo. ” The CAR is at the heart of our agenda and our strategy because, what is at stake here in the Central African Republic, is peace in the entire Central African region. This is the message we passed on to President Touadéra ".
Peace and Security Commissioner of the African Union, Ambassador Smail Chergui said after the meeting with President Touadera: "He [Touadera] reaffirmed his commitment to implementing the peace and reconciliation agreement in the Central African Republic and creating all the conditions necessary to hold the forthcoming elections in a peaceful environment. But also, so that the elections are transparent, regular, and giving the same possibilities to all the candidates who will be officially selected.”
This high-level joint visit takes place eight months after the signing of the Political Agreement for Peace and Reconciliation and two months before the general elections in the Central African Republic.
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