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COTE D'IVOIRE / ELECTION RESULTS WRAP
STORY: COTE D'IVOIRE / ELECTION RESULTS WRAP
TRT: 2.18
SOURCE: UNTV / ONUCI
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / FRENCH / NATS
DATELINE: 2 DECEMBER 2010, NEW YORK CITY, 1 DECEMBER 2010, COTE D’IVOIRE
RECENT 2010, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, United Nations headquarters
2. Med shot, UN flag
2 DECEMBER 2010, NEW YORK CITY
3. Wide shot, US Ambassador Susan Rice approaches microphone
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ambassador Susan Rice, Permanent Representative of the United States, President of the Security Council for the month of December, United Nations:
“The members of the Security Council reminded the leaders that they bear primary responsibility for ensuring a peaceful process and called upon them to exercise restraint, refrain from any interference in the work of the Independent Electoral Commission, and honour their commitments to respect the results, to address their complaints through the legal procedures and to resolve their differences peacefully. They further urged the supporters of the candidates to refrain from any provocation or recourse to violence through the election process.”
1 DECEMBER 2010, ABIDJAN, COTE D’IVOIRE
5. Wide shot, Commissioner IEC, International journalist and Bamba Yacouba, IEC spokesperson
6. SOUNDUP (French) Tokpa Vehy Etienne, Member of the IEC, IEC Commissioner:
"We did not consolidate the results the electoral commission did not consolidate the results"
7. SOUNDUP (French) Damana Pickass:
"So we can’t place an ad the resulting output here, so we wait''
8. SOUND UP (French) Tokpa Vehy Etienne, Member of the IEC, IEC Commissioner:
"We wanted you to make a note of all the press, these were not consolidate Rest of the Commissioners of the IEC are not informed. Mr. Bamba Yacouba avails itself of the title of spokesperson to provide information that the Central Committee did not validate. We have a procedure that has not been respected, the same thing that was done yesterday, yesterday we gave you the results of the diaspora who have been bound by the commission and Mr Bamba came to apologize there at the Central Commission '”
9. SOUNDUP (French) Damana Pickass:
"Bend, Bend. Must be allowed that, we did not consolidate the results”
10. SOUNDBITE (French) Yacouba Bamba, IEC spokesperson:
“We came this morning to consolidate the results, the procedure is as follows, as and when we consolidate the results, we inform the representatives of political parties, so we give them the representative of political parties the result which is consolidated by region and we have communicated, there he was giving the results coming from the region Agneby, South Comoé and Middle Comoé therefore have results that we've come and how you communicate can see you saw that the commissioners came tearing these results, these results are beautiful and well consolidated by the IEC.”
11. Wide shot, CIS spokesman Bamba Yacouba leaves press conference behind
12. Med shot, Tokpa Vehy Etienne, Member of the IEC, IEC Commissioner speaking to the media as the IEC Deputy President arrives and stops it
13. SOUNDUP (French) Youssouf Soumahoro, IEC Deputy President:
“He can’t do press conference go enough, he has no right to make statements here.”
12. Various shots, Special Representative of Secretary General Y.J. Choi talks to media and leaves building behind
The Security Council today welcomed the announcement by Côte d’Ivoire’s electoral authorities of the provisional results of Sunday’s presidential run-off, while urging calm amid reported violence in the West African nation.
According to press reports, the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) today declared former Prime Minister Alassane Ouattara the winner of the elections in which he ran against incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo.
In a statement read by United States Ambassador Susan Rice, the announcement of the provisional results was welcomed by the Security Council, but the Council urged supporters of the candidates to refrain from any provocation or recourse to violence through the election process.
Yesterday, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned all sides not to interfere with the work of the IEC, and requested them to demonstrate responsibility and to refrain from any initiative until the announcement of the provisional results.
His call came after Damana Pickass, a representative of incumbent Laurent Gbagbo tore up the first announcements of partial results and reports that journalists were barred from entering the IEC.
Meanwhile, according to an official release of the Defence Forces and security of Ivory Coast, an army on patrol during the curfew responded to automatic gunfire late Thursday leaving four dead and 14 wounded.
The West African country, the world’s largest cocoa exporter, was split by civil war in 2002 into a Government-controlled south and a rebel-held north, and UNOCI, with a current strength of over 9,000 uniformed personnel, has been supporting reunification efforts, of which Sunday’s vote was a principal step.
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