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DATELINE: 11 JUNE 2009, NEW YORK CITY/ FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior UN building
11 JUNE 2009, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. SOUNDBITE (English) John Holmes, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator:
“We continue to believe that the expulsions of the fourth of March were wrong and unjustified; to deplore the often brutal way that they were carried out; and to regret the increase dangers created for hundreds of thousands of people in need in Darfur and elsewhere. The difficult weeks that followed the expulsions were filled with reports of violence targeting NGOs – both those expelled and those remaining in Darfur and negative rhetoric in the media that put agencies and individuals at increased risk.”
FILE - UNAMID - 24 MARCH 2009, ELFASHER, NORTH DARFUR, SUDAN
4. Wide shot, UNAMID water truck reversing
5. Med shot, internally displaced people (IDPs) bringing water Jerri cans
6. Close up, woman collecting water
11 JUNE 2009, NEW YORK CITY
7. SOUNDBITE (English) John Holmes, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator:
“Following the joint assessment carried out in March by the Government and United Nations, the humanitarian community has worked with Government lined ministries to fill the most critical life saving gaps left by the expulsions. While it has not been possible to do this in a fully satisfactory or sustainable way, it seems these efforts have significantly narrowed the gaps and prevented – for now at least – the feared extra humanitarian crisis and deaths.”
FILE - UNAMID - 24 MARCH 2009, ELFASHER, NORTH DARFUR, SUDAN
8. Med shot, UNAMID peacekeepers patrolling the camp
9. Close up, peacekeeper
10. Wide shot, UNAMID peacekeeper in an armed pick-up overlooking
11 JUNE 2009, NEW YORK CITY
11. SOUNDBITE (English) John Holmes, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator:
“With around thirty-thousand people displaced and possibly more than one thousand killed or taken prisoner, including women and children, tribal reconciliation and disarmament must be a high priority for the Government of South Sudan, and indeed for the international community. Such tribal conflicts, here and elsewhere, with their political undercurrents could even come to threaten progress since the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement.”
8 MAY 2009, AKOBO, SOUTH-EASTERN SUDAN
12. Wide shot, crowd of IDPs
13. Wide shot, Holmes and his entourage arriving at the camp
14. Med shot, Holmes talking to IDPs
11 JUNE 2009, NEW YORK CITY
15. SOUNDBITE (English) John Holmes, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator:
“What we are trying to do in Southern Sudan is to make sure we can address the humanitarian consequences of the dispersal of the LRA following the military attacks on them at the end of last year. Unfortunately the humanitarian consequences of the dispersal of the LRA have been very severe, not only in Southern Sudan but also in the North of the Democratic Republic of Congo. So we are trying to address those humanitarian consequences, it is very difficult to do anything about the LRA themselves.”
8 MAY 2009, AKOBO, SOUTH-EASTERN SUDAN
16. Close up, soldier carrying a machine gun marked SPLA
17. Med shot, armed soldier walking
18. Wide shot, crowd of IDPs
19. Close up, woman
Following his May visit to Sudan, the top United Nations humanitarian official today (11 June) told the Security Council that while the Sudanese Government has taken some positive steps, humanitarian gaps still remain since their expulsion of thirteen NGOs back in March.
Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs John Holmes said that “the expulsions of the fourth of March were wrong and unjustified”, deploring “the often brutal way that they were carried out” and expressing regret for “the increase dangers created for hundreds of thousands of people”, as well as for the “negative rhetoric in the media that put agencies and individuals at increased risk.”
Holmes said that following a joint assessment by the Sudanese Government and the United Nations after the expulsions, the humanitarian community has worked with the Government “to fill the most critical life saving gaps”. He added that these efforts have prevented “the feared extra humanitarian crisis and deaths”.
An estimated 300,000 people have died and another 3 million have been displaced in Darfur, where rebels have been fighting Government forces and allied Arab militiamen, known as the Janjaweed, since 2003.
Speaking about the situation in Southern Sudan, he told the Council that “tribal reconciliation and disarmament must be a high priority” for both the Government of South Sudan and the international community, as tribal conflicts could “threaten progress since the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement”.
Outside the Security Council, Holmes told reporters that the priority is to “address the humanitarian consequences of the dispersal of the LRA following the military attacks on them at the end of last year” as “it is very difficult to do anything about the LRA themselves.”
The 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) that ended a 21-year civil war between north and south Sudan. At least 66 people have died from the recent surge in deadly ethnic violence in Southern Sudan.
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