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STORY: UN / LE ROY
TRT: 2.43
SOURCE: UNTV / UNIFIL / UNAMID / UNMIS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 4 AUGUST 2010, NEW YORK CITY
RECENT 2010, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
4 AUGUST 2010, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, press conference
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Alain Le Roy, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, United Nations:
“As you know the Commission for the Referendum of Southern Sudan has been established but still they are lacking a General-Secretary, they are lacking operational activities and they’re very important here ands also as you know also in Abyei the Commission for the Referendum has not been yet established for several reasons; and its very important we keep insisting on the parties that its absolutely crucial if we want to have a peaceful sequence in the Sudan for the coming months, both Commissions on for southern Sudan and the one for Abiye should be established.”
4. Cutaway, journalist
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Alain Le Roy, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, United Nations:
“We need to check completely with the GIS, Geographical Information System and we have done that job, UNIFIL is mandated to do that job, has done that job and has confirmed today in a statement that the tree was on the Israeli side, yes.”
6. Cutaway, journalists taking notes
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Alain Le Roy, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, United Nations:
“So we have now demarcated more than 20 percent of the ‘blue line’. Of course it’s a long process because we have to have the agreement of both parties to ensure they agree with the demarcation of the ‘blue line’ and there is also some de-mining before demarcating we have a de-mining team; so that takes some time. So that being said, as I said the parties have still some reservations on the part of the ‘blue line’ but as I said and its clear in the statement of UNIFIL that both parties have agree that although they have reservation its only for the UNIFIL to ensure that the ‘blue line’ is fully respected, the ‘blue line’ as it is.”
8. Cutaway, press conference
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Alain Le Roy, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, United Nations:
“I’m very concerned by the situation in Kalma Camp because also the situation can unravel to other camps. About the level of casualties the figures we have so far, we have still confirmed three dead in the camp. How all that started; it started within the camps, within the four, those opposed to the Doha talks and those who were pro Doha talks, specially with those who came back from Doha; and of course we were in full disagreement with those who was asked to reject any discussion on the peace process.”
FILE / UNMIS / 6 JULY 2010, KHARTOUM, SUDAN
10. Med shot, Sudanese President Omar Al Bashir walking into room
11. Various shots, Southern Sudan Referendum Commission members seated
FILE / UNIFIL / 4 MAY 2009, NAQOURA, SOUTHERN LEBANON
12. Med shot, Le Roy, UNIFIL Force Commander Major General Claudio Graziano, and Roxane Bazergan Tripartite office explaining about the Blue Line and the Technical Fence
13. Tilt down, Le Roy and Bazergan Tripartite office pointing to the Blue Line and map
FILE / UNAMID / 25 NOVEMBER 2008, KALMA CAMP, SOUTH DARFUR
14. Wide shot, Kalma internally displaced camp
FILE / UNAMID / 10 AUGUST 2008, NYALA, DARFUR, SUDAN
15. Wide shot, local sheik (tribal leader) addressing points to the Deputy Joint Special Representative
16. Med shot, Deputy UN-AU Joint Special Representative for Darfur Anyidoho listening
Alain Le Roy, the top United Nations peacekeeping official, briefed reporters today (4 August) at the UN in New York on the situation in Sudan, Darfur and Lebanon.
Sudanese are slated to go to the polls early next year to vote on whether the south should secede from the rest of the country and also to determine the final status of Abyei an oil-rich area in the centre of the country.
Le Roy said that the Southern Sudan’s Referendum Commission were still lacking a General-Secretary and operational activities. He added that in Abyei the Commission for the Referendum had not been yet established for several reasons.
Le Roy said emphasized the importance of insisting on the parties that it was “absolutely crucial” in order for peace to happen that both commissions be established.
On the situation in Lebanon following yesterday’s (3 August) violent incidents triggered by Israel’s announcement of its intention to cut down a tree in the proximity of the Blue Line, Le Roy said that UN Mission in Lebanon (UNIFIL) announced in a statement issued today that the tree was located south of the line, on the Israeli side.
Both Lebanon and Israel had some reservations regarding the Blue Line in this area when it was demarcated in 2000 as the line of withdrawal of Israeli forces from Lebanon, UNIFIL noted in a press statement.
“The parties have still some reservations on the part of the ‘blue line’ but as I said and it’s clear in the statement of UNIFIL that both parties have agreed that although they have reservation its only for the UNIFIL to ensure that the ‘blue line’ is fully respected, the ‘blue line’ as it is,” he said.
Le Roy moved on to the recent violent acts at the Kalma IDP Camp in Darfur.
Tensions in Kalma rose last week after the conclusion of the latest round of peace talks in Doha, Qatar, with some groups contending they were unrepresented. The camp was the scene of violent protests on Thursday (29 July) in which hundreds of internally displaced persons (IDPs) demonstrated.
Le Roy said that he was “very concerned by the situation in Kalma Camp because also the situation can unravel to other camps.” He added that he had confirmed three dead in the camp.
The UN-African Union Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID) said that a reconciliation committee has been mediating a peaceful settlement between the opposing sides.
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