COTE D'IVOIRE / LE ROY

Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Alain Le Roy arrives in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire as part of a three-day trip to West Africa. ONUCI

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:00:56
• Production Date: 11 June 2009
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS OPERATIONS IN COTE D'IVOIRE - UNOCI
• Subject Topical: POLITICAL AFFAIRS; LAW; INTERNATIONAL LAW; POLITICAL CONDITIONS; PEACE AND SECURITY
• Geographic Subject: COTE D'IVOIRE
• MAMS Id: U090611f

Description

STORY : COTE D’IVOIRE / LE ROY
TRT : 0:56
SOURCE : ONUCI
RESTRICTIONS : NONE
LANGUAGE : FRENCH / NATS

DATELINE : 10-11 JUNE 2009, ABIDJAN, COTE D’IVOIRE

Shotlist

10 JUNE 2009, ABIDJAN, COTE D’IVOIRE

1. Med shot, UN Under-Secretary-General Alain Le Roy and Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Cote d’Ivoire, Y. J. Choi arriving in Abidjan airport lobby
2. SOUNDBITE (French) Alain Le Roy, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations:
“This mission, ONUCI is very important and I came to support the work done by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr Choi and his team.”
3. Med shot, ONUCI delegation and USG sitting in airport lobby
4. SOUNDBITE (French) Alain Le Roy, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations:
“I appreciate the progresses made since March 2007 and hopefully until the election, which should take place very soon now that the date has been determined.”
5. Wide shot, convoy driving in Abidjan

11 JUNE 2009, ABIDJAN, COTE D’IVOIRE

6. Med shot, UN Under-Secretary-General Alain Le Roy and Principal Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Cote d’Ivoire, Abou Moussa arriving to a meeting
7. Med shot, Le Roy meeting with a Special Representative of Facilitator of the Ougadougou Peace Agreement, Bureima Badini and his delegation
8. Med shot, Le Roy meeting with opposition leader Alassane Dramane Ouattara and his delegation
9. Close up, Le Roy listening to Alassane Ouattara
10. Med shot, Le Roy shaking hands with Ouattara

Storyline

The UN’s top peacekeeping official Alain Le Roy arrived on Wednesday (10 June) evening in Abidjan for his first visit to Cote d’Ivoire as Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations.

Le Roy’s four-day visit is intended to assess the progress achieved by the UN Operation in Cote d’Ivoire (ONUCI) since a major political agreement was signed in 2007 in Ouagadougou by the main actors of the seven year long crisis in Cote d’Ivoire.

SOUNDBITE (French) Alain Le Roy, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations:
“This mission, ONUCI is very important and I came to support the work done by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr Choi and his team.”

Le Roy is also going to see how the mission can better assist Ivorian people in the forthcoming election on 29 November 2009, which has been delayed for four years over identification and disarmament issues.

SOUNDBITE (French) Alain Le Roy, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations:
“I appreciate the progresses made since March 2007 and hopefully until the election, which should take place very soon now that the date has been determined.”

In Abidjan the Under-Secretary-General today (11 June) met with the Special Representative of the Facilitator of the Ougadougou Accord, Bureima Badini and the leader of the RDR opposition party Alassane Outtara.

Over the next three days, he is expected to meet with President Laurent Gbagbo, Prime Minister Guillaume Soro and the Facilitator President of Burkina Faso Blaise Compaore.

This will lead him to Yamoussoukro, Bouake and Ouagadougou, before meeting with a delegation of the United Nations Mission in Liberia at the Liberian border.

In addition to Côte d’Ivoire, Le Roy’s ten-day trip to West Africa will take him to Burkina Faso, Liberia, Mali and Nigeria, where he will meet with government officials and local authorities.