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DATELINE: 29 JANUARY 2024, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior UN Headquarters
29 JANUARY 2024, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Karim Khan, Prosecutor, International Criminal Court (ICC):
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“Based on the work of my office, it's my clear finding, my clear assessment that there are grounds to believe that presently Rome Statute crimes are being committed in Darfur by both the Sudanese Armed Forces and Rapid Support Forces affiliated groups.”
4. Wide shot, Security Council
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Karim Khan, Prosecutor, International Criminal Court (ICC):
“7.1 million people have been displaced in Sudan - internally displaced - since April. 1.5 million people have fled to neighboring countries around Sudan. More than 555,000 Darfuris have fled into Chad up to December of last year alone.”
6. Wide shot, Security Council
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Karim Khan, Prosecutor, International Criminal Court (ICC):
“Judicial orders and court judgments alone cannot solve the problem – it would be wonderful if it could. It requires the Security Council, the whole of the United Nations family, the ICC, Member States, the International Community writ large to not get overwhelmed by an intractable problem but to come up with innovative solutions in order to address the catastrophe and also to prevent the contagion of violence from spreading even wider.”
8. Wide shot, Security Council
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Karim Khan, Prosecutor, International Criminal Court (ICC):
“The failure of the international community to execute the warrants that have been issued by independent judges of the ICC has invigorated a climate of impunity and the outbreak of violence that commenced in April and continues today.”
10. Wide shot, Security Council
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Karim Khan, Prosecutor, International Criminal Court (ICC):
“As conflicts spread up in other parts of the world, there's a real risk that many Darfuris fear. That that plight -the situation in Darfur - will be a forgotten atrocity. If it does, it will be the second time that people in Darfur have been failed. Humanity at large failed, and we must not collectively allow that to happen.”
12. Wide shot, Security Council
13. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Al-Harith Idriss Al-Harith Mohamed, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Sudan:
“We reiterate that the Armed Forces do not call for war. However, they are compelled to defend the state against these aggressions. The Armed Forces spare no effort in order to minimize the collateral damage and comply with the principles of necessity, proportionality, distinguishment, and feasible precautions.”
14. Wide shot, Security Council
15. Pan left, delegates walking to stakeout
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Nathalie Broadhurst, Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations, France:
“Since the beginning of the conflict in April 2023, different forms of conflict-related sexual violence, including rapes gang rapes, abductions, sexual slavery, and exploitation trafficking, sometimes used as a tactic of war, have been reported in all conflict-affected areas in particular, in Khartoum, Al Jazirah, Darfur states and the Kordofan regions.”
17. Wide shot, delegates at stakeout
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Nathalie Broadhurst, Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations, France:
“We call upon all parties to the conflict to immediately cease hostilities and to respect their obligations under international humanitarian law, including by refraining from targeting civilians’ objects, including medical facilities, and by allowing and facilitating rapid, safe, and unhindered humanitarian access.”
19. Pan right, delegates leaving stakeout
20. Wide shot, delegates at stakeout
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Shino Mitsuko, Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Japan:
“International law must be upheld at all times, and justice and accountability must be ensured for all violations. As the ongoing conflict in Sudan demonstrates once again, accountability for past atrocities is an essential prerequisite for peace and stability.”
22. Pan right, delegates leaving stakeout
The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Khan, told the Security Council today (29 Jan), “There are grounds to believe that presently Rome Statute crimes are being committed in Darfur by both the Sudanese Armed Forces and Rapid Support Forces affiliated groups.”
Addressing the Security Council from N'Djamena, Chad, Khan reported that 7.1 million people have been displaced in Sudan - internally displaced - since April.
He also said that 1.5 million people have fled to neighboring countries around Sudan and that more than 555,000 Darfuris have fled into Chad up to December of last year alone.
He noted, “Judicial orders and court judgments alone cannot solve the problem – it would be wonderful if it could. It requires the Security Council, the whole of the United Nations family, the ICC, Member States, the International Community writ large to not get overwhelmed by an intractable problem but to come up with innovative solutions in order to address the catastrophe, and also to prevent the contagion of violence from spreading even wider.”
Khan highlighted, “The failure of the international community to execute the warrants that have been issued by independent judges of the ICC has invigorated a climate of impunity and the outbreak of violence that commenced in April and continues today.”
He stressed, “As conflicts spread up in other parts of the world, there's a real risk that many Darfuris fear. That that plight -the situation in Darfur - will be a forgotten atrocity. If it does, it will be the second time that people in Darfur have been failed. Humanity at large failed, and we must not collectively allow that to happen.”
Al-Harith Idriss Al-Harith Mohamed, Permanent Representative of Sudan to the United Nations, said, “We reiterate that the Armed Forces do not call for war. However, they are compelled to defend the state against these aggressions. The Armed Forces spare no effort in order to minimize the collateral damage and comply with the principles of necessity, proportionality, distinguishment, and feasible precautions.”
Early this morning, Nathalie Broadhurst, Deputy Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations, addressed the press in a joint statement of the 11 Security Council signatories of the Statement of Shared Commitments for the principles of Women, Peace, and Security — Ecuador, France, Guyana, Japan, Malta, the Republic of Korea, Sierra Leone, Slovenia, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
She said, “Since the beginning of the conflict in April 2023, different forms of conflict-related sexual violence, including rapes gang rapes, abductions, sexual slavery, and exploitation trafficking, sometimes used as a tactic of war, have been reported in all conflict-affected areas in particular, in Khartoum, Al Jazirah, Darfur states and the Kordofan regions.”
She also said, “We call upon all parties to the conflict to immediately cease hostilities and to respect their obligations under international humanitarian law, including by refraining from targeting civilians’ objects, including medical facilities, and by allowing and facilitating rapid, safe and unhindered humanitarian access.”
After this morning's meeting, Shino Mitsuko, Deputy Permanent Representative of Japan to the United Nations, made a statement on behalf of the Members of the Security Council that are State Parties to the Rome Statute of the ICC (Ecuador, France, Guyana, Malta, the Republic of Korea, Sierra Leone, Slovenia, the United Kingdom, and our own countries, Japan and Switzerland).
She stated, “International law must be upheld at all times, and justice and accountability must be ensured for all violations. As the ongoing conflict in Sudan demonstrates once again, accountability for past atrocities is an essential prerequisite for peace and stability.”
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