Media Home
UN Web TV
UN Audiovisual Library
UN PhotoUnifeed
SUDAN / POST REFERENDUM TALKS
Download
There is no media available to download.
STORY: SUDAN / POST REFERENDUM TALKS
TRT: 2:21
SOURCE: UNMIS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / ARABIC / NATS
DATELINE: 10 JULY 2010, KHARTOUM, SUDAN
1. Wide shot, Vice President of Government of Southern Sudan, Reik Machar, First Vice President Ali Osman and former South African President and Chairman of the Africa Union Panel on Darfur Thabo Mbeki
2. Med shot, United Nations Mission in Sudan Special Representative of the Secretary General Haile Menkerios
3. Cutaway, sign board reads “Post Referendum Arrangements Talks”
4. Med shot, a number of guests sitting
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Pagan Amun, Secretary-General, Sudan People’s Liberation Movement:
“Today the SPLM stand here to give a promise to the people of Sudan whether southerners - northerners that we shall negotiate with good faith with National Congress Party (NCP) and strive to reach an agreement on all post referendum issues. Our aim is to ensure peace, protect all the livelihood, respect customary rights of our people, honor the connection of our people and their share histories, prevent discrimination or hardships, loss of human rights to honor international duties and obligations and the law prioritize reconciliations to ensure economic viability both the south and north.”
6. Med shot, Taha and Reick Mashr waving hands to dancers
7. Med shot, members of NCP
8. Wide shot, a number of people listing
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Idriss Abdulgadier, National Congress Party:
“Exercising the right of the referendum peacefully and with full responsibility is the only guarantee for sustainable peace and a protected future to attain full prosperity for this generation and the coming ones regardless the outcome of the referendum.”
10. Med shot, guests talking
The Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) and the National Congress Party (NCP) have started preparatory discussions on Post-Referendum arrangements.
These talks are initial discussions ahead of more in-depth talks which will deal with issues on the conduct of the referendum and post-referendum governance in the South.
The talks come after the swearing in of a nine-member Southern Sudan Referendum Commission which is expected to start work immediately.
The Commission, which was endorsed by the National Assembly on June 28 2010, is the independent national body that will organize and conduct the January 2011 referendum where the people of southern Sudan will exercise their right for self-determination.
At a press conference in Khartoum on Saturday (July 10), a representative of NCP Idriss Abdulgadier told journalists that it was important to go about the referendum process responsibly and peacefully.
“Exercising the right of the referendum peacefully and with full responsibility is the only guarantee for sustainable peace and a protected future to attain full prosperity for this generation and the coming ones regardless the outcome of the referendum,” said Abdulgadier.
Secretary-general of the SPLM Pagan Amun said that the SPLM was aiming at ensuring peace, protection of all livelihoods, respect of customary rights of the Sudanese people, among other pertinent issues.
“Today the SPLM stand here to give a promise to the people of Sudan whether southerners or northerners that we shall negotiate with good faith with National Congress Party (NCP) and strive to reach an agreement on all post referendum issues. Our aim is to ensure peace, protect all the livelihood, respect customary rights of our people, honor the connection of our people and their share histories, prevent discrimination or hardships, loss of human rights to honor international duties and obligations and the law prioritize reconciliations to ensure economic viability both the south and north,” said Amun.
As the talks progress, the two partners of the CPA said they received some proposals from the chairman of the Africa Union Panel on Darfur Thabo Mbeki as they map out post-referendum arrangements.
