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SUDAN / ABYEI CLASHES
STORY: SUDAN / ABYEI CLASHES
TRT: 2.07
SOURCE: UNMIS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/ NATS
DATELINE: 11 JANUARY 2010, ABYEI, SUDAN
1. Wide shot, helicopter landing
2. Wide shot, Abyei Chief Administrator, UN and SPLM officials walking to meet UN Special Representative of the Secretary General and some SPLM officials arriving
3. Med shot, officials walking
4. Wide shot, reverse view of officials walking and chopper in the background
5. Med shot, Abyei Chief Administrator Deng Alor greeting Pagan Amun, Hale Menkerios and other officials
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Haile Menkerios, UN Special Representative of the Secretary General for the Sudan:
“It is important that there is calm and to do that the leaders – both the governor here and the governor in Kordofan – and they are doing a good job actually – need to be encouraged to have meetings to resolve those that need to be, in other words, an address so that conflicts like happened last time don’t happen.”
7. Various shots, meeting of SPLM delegation and Chief Administrator of Abyei
8. SOUNDBITE (English): Pagan Amun, SPLM Secretary General:
“We came as a delegation from the SPLM to visit the Administration in Abyei and to bring a message from the leadership of SPLM to call on the people of Abyei to maintain calm despite their disappointment. The 9th of January has come and the people of Abyei have missed their right, or their opportunity to determine their future to choose between returning to the south or remaining in northern Sudan.”
9. Wide shot, residential area in Abyei town
Upon arrival in Abyei, Sudan Peoples' Liberation Movement (SPLM) Secretary-General Pagan Amun and the UN Special Representative of the Secretary General for the Sudan, Haile Menkerios, both separately urged residents to maintain their calm despite their disappointment for the lack of a referendum in the area.
Unverified reports indicate there have been several deaths from clashes in the outskirts of Abyei town and that tensions were building up around the area.
Menkeiros called on local leaders to overcome their differences.
SOUNDBITE (English) Haile Menkerios, UN Special Representative of the Secretary General for the Sudan:
“It is important that there is calm and to do that the leaders – both the governor here and the governor in Kordofan – and they are doing a good job actually – need to be encouraged to have meetings to resolve those that need to be, in other words, an address so that conflicts like happened last time don’t happen.”
The visit comes a day ahead of an expected meeting between Misseriya and Dinka leaders who are expected to hold talks to decide a way forward to various stalemates that have plagued the two main tribes living in the Abyei area.
Amun expressed understanding for local population’s disappointment and plead for calm.
SOUNDBITE (English): Pagan Amun, SPLM Secretary General:
“We came as a delegation from the SPLM to visit the Administration in Abyei and to bring a message from the leadership of SPLM to call on the people of Abyei to maintain calm despite their disappointment. The 9th of January has come and the people of Abyei have missed their right, or their opportunity to determine their future to choose between returning to the south or remaining in northern Sudan.”
Oil-rich Abyei region was meant to hold a concurrent referendum on whether to join the North or South, but an agreement on the modalities for such a vote has not been reached.
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