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STORY: UN / CAR MINUSCA
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / FRENCH / NATS
DATELINE: 21 FEBRUARY 2024, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior, United Nations Headquarters
21 FEBRUARY 2024, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Valentine Rugwabiza, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the Central African Republic and Head of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA):
“I therefore wish to request the Council’s support for an urgent, dedicated and truly multidimensional response to this threat both for the protection of civilians, and safety and security of our peacekeepers. We need to do the utmost to prevent this spread of these lethal weapons to other regions of the CAR. This approach should include investing in situational awareness, as well as focused cross-border cooperation on the origins, and sources of supply of these weapons.”
4. Wide shot, Security Council
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Valentine Rugwabiza, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the Central African Republic and Head of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA):
“As we prepare soon to initiate MINUSCA’s budget deliberations, we count on the Council members and all Member States to avail MINUSCA with the requisite transport and logistic means to consolidate and expand MINUSCA’s logistical support to Government of the Central African Republic and national defense and internal security forces to fulfil their primary responsibility of Protection of Civilian and exercise sovereignty of its territory.”
6. Wide shot, Security Council
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Valentine Rugwabiza, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the Central African Republic and Head of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA):
“The Mission will continue to enhance its close cooperation and joint patrols with FACA and the internal forces, especially in border areas and conflict hotspots. This is coupled with the urgent need for security sector reform to which we continue to lend considerable support.”
8. Wide shot, Security Council
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Valentine Rugwabiza, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the Central African Republic and Head of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA):
“I therefore encourage Member States and partners with relevant expertise and institutional capabilities to support the Central African national defense and security forces and, in doing so, support Central African Republic’s efforts and progress in building a professional national Army and Internal Security Forces. There is no alternative to lasting securisation of CAR population and preservation of the sovereignty of the Central African territory.”
10. Wide shot, Security Council
11. SOUNDBITE (French)
“We recognize that merely restoring state authority will not be enough to solidify peace and security. That's why the Central African Republic also places significant emphasis on socio-economic revitalization as a cornerstone for stability.”
The head of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA), Valentine Rugwabiza, requested the Council’s support for “an urgent, dedicated and truly multidimensional response” to the threat by Explosive Ordnance Devices (EODs) both for the protection of civilians, and safety and security of peacekeepers.
Rugwabiza today (21 Feb) presented the most recent report of the Secretary-General on the Central African Republic, and updated Council members on the recent developments in the country as well as the implementation of MINUSCA’s mandate.
She said that the country is a landlocked country with no internal connectivity roads. This not only constitutes a major challenge to the mobility of MINUSCA’s troops and the national defense and security forces and therefore to the Protection of Civilians and extension of CAR state authority over its territory.
The chief of the Mission reiterated, “As we prepare soon to initiate MINUSCA’s budget deliberations, we count on the Council members and all Member States to avail MINUSCA with the requisite transport and logistic means to consolidate and expand MINUSCA’s logistical support to Government of the Central African Republic and national defense and internal security forces to fulfil their primary responsibility of Protection of Civilian and exercise sovereignty of its territory.”
Rugwabiza also said that Resolution 2907 (2023) through which the Council renewed the mandate of MINUSCA elevated the mission’s support to the restoration and extension of state authority (RESA) to a priority task.
She noted that MINUSCA, in coordination with UN Agencies, has in key areas including the redeployment of civil servants and other state agents from Bangui to their places of assignment in prefectures and sub-prefectures, the construction, refurbishment, and equipment of administrative buildings.
MINUSCA also provided logistic, security and capacity-building support to the Ministry of Public Service and Administrative Reform and the Ministry of Territorial Administration, Decentralization and Local Development, she noted.
The chief of the Mission reiterated, “The Mission will continue to enhance its close cooperation and joint patrols with FACA and the internal forces, especially in border areas and conflict hotspots.”
“This is coupled with the urgent need for security sector reform to which we continue to lend considerable support,” she added.
Rugwabiza also encouraged Member States and partners with relevant expertise and institutional capabilities to support the Central African national defense and security forces and, “in doing so, support Central African Republic’s efforts and progress in building a professional national Army and Internal Security Forces.”
She concluded, “There is no alternative to lasting securisation of CAR population and preservation of the sovereignty of the Central African territory.”
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