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UN / COTE D’IVOIRE WRAP
STORY: UN / COTE D’IVOIRE
TRT: 2.45
SOURCE: UNTV / ONUCI
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / FRENCH / NATS
DATELINE: 23 JULY 2009, NEW YORK CITY
RECENT 2009, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, Security Council
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Choi Yong-jin, Special representative of the Secretary-General for Cote D’Ivoire (ONUCI):
“As it stands now, non-political challenges, such as the bureaucratic, managerial and planning aspects of the electoral process, are rapidly emerging as the major impediments to respecting the 29 November deadline. These non-political impediments are not to be under-estimated. We have already seen that the identification and voter registration operation, originally planned to last six weeks, eventually lasted nine months and two weeks, from September 2008 to June 2009.”
3. Cutaway, delegates
4. SOUNDBITE (French) Alcide Djedje, Permanent Representative of Cote D’Ivoire, United Nations:
“It is during this stage where the process is nearing completion that the peace process and the institutions of Cote D’Ivoire are being attacked by some. My delegation is referring to the recent statements by French personalities who made unfair and unjustified remarks against the Ivorian authorities and the ongoing process.”
5. Cutaway, delegates
6. SOUNDBITE (French) Alcide Djedje, Permanent Representative of Cote D’Ivoire, United Nations:
“This heavy responsibility as well as the influence and the consequences that the attitude and comments of France can have in Cote D’Ivoire should be a reason for a greater sense of restraint and responsibility on its parts.”
7. Wide shot, Security Council
8. Wide shot, Choi Yong-jin approaches microphone
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Y.J. Choi, Special representative of the Secretary-General for Cote D’Ivoire (ONUCI):
"Our job is to accompany the Ivoirian process and we're not there to judge the process. We are not in a position to tell you whether the date will be respected or no, that's not our job. Our job is to accompany you [Ivorians] to raise the chances that the date will be respected."
10. Wide shot, Choi Yong-jin leaves microphone behind
FILE – ONUCI - 15 SEPTEMBER 2008, YAMOUSSOUKRO, COTE D'IVOIRE
11. Various shots, demonstrators and Force Nouvelles soldiers
12. Pan right, from SRSG Choi Yong-jin (left), President of Independent Electoral Commission (middle) and Mayor of Yamoussoukro (right) to example of registration
13. Various shots, example of people being registered
FILE – ONUCI - : 4 NOVEMBER 2008 / 7 OCTOBER 2008, ABIDJAN, COTE D'IVOIRE
14. Wide shot, line of people waiting to be identified in a school used as an identification center
15. Various shots, leader of an opposition party and presidential candidate Henri Konan Bedie undergoing identification process
16. Close up, document used for the identification
17. Med shot, police officers securing the identification center
18. Wide shot, people entering an identification center
19. Wide shot, people waiting to be identified
The UN Special Representative for Cote d’Ivoire Choi Yong-jin said the announcement that the country’s presidential elections would be held on 29 November this year was a very positive step towards resolving the Ivorian crisis.
Speaking to the Security Council today, he said that the UN Mission (UNOCI) would leave, “no stone unturned” in its provision of assistance so that elections and reunification could take place without further delay.
But at the same time, he warned that the Ivorian elections management body appears to be struggling with questions of managing and planning the electoral process.
Choi said that given the mixed picture of worrying signs amid solid progress there might be a need, in the run up to the next Security Council meeting, to finding ways to reconcile the contradictions currently facing the Ivorian electoral and reunification processes.
Cote d’Ivoire’s Ambasador Alcide Djedje said that at a time where the peace process was moving ahead that the institutions of Cote D’Ivoire were, “being attacked by some French personalities”, that were implying a possible delay in the elections.
Djedje also said that the attitude and comments of France could have in Cote D’Ivoire should be a reason for a greater sense of restraint and responsibility on its part.
After the meeting, Choi spoke to journalists outside the council. Asked about the idea of withdrawing international support for Cote d'Ivoire in case the elections were not held on 29 November 2009 as planned, Choi said that the mission’s job was to accompany the Ivorian process not to judge it.
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