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SOURCE: UNIFEED / UNAMID / MINUSMA / UNIFIL / MINUSCA / UNMISS
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LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 20 FEBRUARY 2021, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, United Nations headquarters
20 FEBRUARY 2021, NEW YORK CITY
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations:
“A4P is a comprehensive initiative. It’s about improving performance; it’s about improving the impact of peacekeeping; It’s about improving the safety and security of our peacekeepers, but it’s also the protection of the communities we serve.”
FILE - 28 MARCH 2018, NEW YORK CITY
4. Various shots, Secretary-General António Guterres launching the Action for Peacekeeping (A4P) initiative at a Security Council
20 FEBRUARY 2021, NEW YORK CITY
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations:
“Peacekeeping is ultimately about supporting political efforts. It’s about supporting political solutions, political settlements but these political efforts need to be, not only supported by our partners, but we need to work collectively to support them. That is why I have worked a lot and will continue to work a lot with the African Union. This is why the partnership that we have with the other organizations such as ECCAS or ECOWAS in Africa, the European Union, of course.”
FILE – UNAMID - UNDATED, DARFUR
6. Wide shot, African Union-United Nations Hybrid Opration in Darfur (UNAMID) convoy crossing river
7. Various shots, peacekeepers interacting with local population
20 FEBRUARY 2021, NEW YORK CITY
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations:
“I was recently in Mali, last year I was in the DR Congo, I was also in the Central African republic, I visited many places in some cases in quite remote areas, where our peacekeepers are deployed, I met with the communities, I met with the people who are protected by the peacekeepers and I can tell you that the presence of our peacekeepers in those areas, make a difference between life and death for these communities.”
FILE – MINUSMA - 20 JUNE 2019, MOPTI, MALI
9. Med shot, Lacroix arrival at Mopti airport
10. Med shot, meeting with Malian Government representative
11. Various shots, delegation visiting a United Nations project
FILE – UNIFIL - 13 MARCH 2019, NAQOURA / CHAMAA, SOUTH LEBANON
12. Various shots, Lacroix interacting with peacekeepers
20 FEBRUARY 2021, NEW YORK CITY
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations:
“You cannot help but think of the families and you cannot help but think of the loved ones of these fallen peacekeepers. We think of their comrades as well. But you also have in mind as a USG of the Department of Peace Operations, you also have in mind what can we do to better protect our peacekeepers how can we continue and even enhance our efforts to make sure that these kind of attacks will not result in fatalities or injuries.”
FILE - MINUSCA - 4 OCTOBER, BANGUI, CAR
14. Med shot, Senegalese blue helmets carrying the coffins of their three comrades
15. Wide shot, military band
16. Wide shot, Jean-Pierre Lacroix lays flowers on the coffin of a Senegalese pilot
20 FEBRUARY 2021, NEW YORK CITY
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations:
“Our peacekeeping missions could have been potentially paralyzed by COVID-19 and this is what we had feared last year. But there was a lot that was made to avoid that risk. Preventative measures were enforced, we worked on doing things differently, social distancing, changing the way in which we interact with communities and the population, changing the way in which we interact with the stakeholders, the political parties and other leaders and also working on critical issues such as rotations.”
FILE – UNMISS - 19 NOVEMBER 2020, MARIDI, SOUTH SUDAN
18. Wide shot, UN peacekeepers on patrol
FILE – UNMISS - 03 DECEMBER 2020, IBBA, SOUTH SUDAN
19. Various shots, awareness of COVID-19 campaign
20 FEBRUARY 2021, NEW YORK CITY
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations:
“Peacekeeping needs to be reflective of the communities in which it operates. It needs to be reflective of the fact that in the host countries as well as anywhere else, there is 50 percent men 50 percent women and also reflective of the fact that there is nothing in peacekeeping that cannot be performed either by men or by women.”
FILE – UNMISS - 12 NOVEMBER 2020, JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN
21. Med shot, Stephanie Palfrey-Sneddon showing book to local family
22. Med shot, Palfrey-Sneddon showing book to local family
FILE – UNMISS - 27 NOVEMBER 2020, MALAKAL, SOUTH SUDAN
23. Wide shot, female Rwandan peacekeeper commanding parade
Ahead of the third anniversary since Action for Peacekeeping (A4P) was launched by Secretary-General António Guterres, Peacekeeping Chief Jean-Pierre Lacroix said, “A4P is a comprehensive initiative. It’s about improving performance; it’s about improving the impact of peacekeeping; It’s about improving the safety and security of our peacekeepers, but it’s also the protection of the communities we serve.”
The Secretary-General launched the A4P initiative at a Security Council High-Level Debate on 28 March 2018. The initiative focuses its efforts in three areas: refocusing peacekeeping with realistic expectations; making peacekeeping missions stronger and safer; and mobilizing greater support for political solutions and for well-structured, well-equipped, well-trained forces.
In a recorded interview, Lacroix highlighted the importance of working with regional organizations. He said, “peacekeeping is ultimately about supporting political efforts. It’s about supporting political solutions, political settlements but these political efforts need to be, not only supported by our partners, but we need to work collectively to support them.”
The peacekeeping official said in some areas of operation, the presence of peacekeepers “make a difference between life and death for these communities.”
A total of 129 peacekeepers died in the line of duty in 2020.
Lacroix said, “you cannot help but think of the families and you cannot help but think of the loved ones of these fallen peacekeepers. We think of their comrades as well. But you also have in mind as a USG of the Department of Peace Operations, you also have in mind what can we do to better protect our peacekeepers how can we continue and even enhance our efforts to make sure that these kind of attacks will not result in fatalities or injuries.”
On the role of women in peacekeeping, he said, “peacekeeping needs to be reflective of the communities in which it operates. It needs to be reflective of the fact that in the host countries as well as anywhere else, there is 50 percent men 50 percent women and also reflective of the fact that there is nothing in peacekeeping that cannot be performed either by men or by women.”
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