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SUDAN / AMOS
STORY: SUDAN / AMOS
TRT: 1:43
SOURCE: UNMIS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 9 NOVEMBER 2010, KHARTOUM, SUDAN
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Valerie Amos, Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator:
“In Abyei and in Darfur, growing insecurity is a major concern and is limiting the freedom of movement of humanitarian workers and their ability to offer assistance to people in need. I have asked for renewed commitment from the authorities in the South, in Darfur and that the federal level to ensure the delivery of humanitarian assistant is unhampered and free from any political ethnic or religious consideration.”
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5. SOUNDBITE (English) Valerie Amos, Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator:
“Twenty-seven international aid workers and peace keepers have been kidnapped since March 2009. Four are still held being captives. I welcome the government efforts to resolve kidnapping cases and call for perpetrators to be apprehended and brought to justice. Stopping impunity is the only way to address this worrying trend.”
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The United Nations (UN) Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Valerie Amos has said that growing trends of insecurity in Sudan were affecting the work of humanitarian workers in the country.
Speaking on Tuesday (9 November) at a press conference in Khartoum at the end of her six-day visit in different parts of the country, Valerie Amos said insecurity was limiting freedom of movement of humanitarian workers.
“Humanitarian agencies have reported a worrying deterioration in the operating environment in recent month in the South, in Abyei and in Darfur. Growing insecurity is a major concern and is limiting the freedom of movement of humanitarian workers and their ability to offer assistance to people in need. I have asked for renewed commitment from the authorities in the South, in Darfur and that the federal level to ensure the delivery of humanitarian assistant is unhampered and free from any political ethnic or religious consideration,” said Valerie Amos.
Amos said her trip was aimed at seeing for herself the status of the humanitarian response in the country, strengthening working relationships with key stakeholders in Darfur and southern Sudan, and to seek assurance from authorities on their responsibility to protect and up-hold the rights of the population.
At the press conference, she also highlighted the growing concern of repeated abductions of aid workers and peacekeepers.
“Twenty-seven international aid workers and peace keepers have been kidnapped since March 2009. Four are still held being captives. I welcome the government efforts to resolve kidnapping cases and call for perpetrators to be apprehended and brought to justice. Stopping impunity is the only way to address this worrying trend,” said Amos.
She traveled to Juba, Yambio and Izo in southern Sudan and to Agok and Abyei in the three-Protocol areas, and to El Fasher and Nyala in Darfur, where she talked to beneficiaries of humanitarian assistance, including people displaced by violence and with families wanting to return to their places of origin to rebuild their lives.
She also met with government officials in Khartoum and Juba and representatives of non-governmental organizations and the UN.
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