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STORY: UN / SUDAN
SOURCE: UNTV
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 18 JANUARY 2011, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior UN building
18 JANUARY 2011, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council showing video conference screen
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Haile Menkerios, Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) for the Sudan and head of UNMIS:
“Sudan is on the eve of a new dawn and it is going to need a heavy dose of encouragement and support from the international community to make sure committed implementation of the CPA signifies a final and definitive break with the past and opens a new era of prosperity and stability for all Sudanese.”
4. Med shot, delegates
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Benjamin Mkapa, Head of the Secretary General’s Panel on the Referenda in the Sudan:
“The panel has so far found no evidence to suggest that there was any systematic or widespread attempt to undermine the polling process. We are now closely following the aggregation of results. The process of transmitting the results from nearly 3,000 referendum centres to country sub-committees and the state’s high committees, and then to Juba and Khartoum, is proceeding. We understand any alleged errors or fraud will be thoroughly investigated and that any results tainted by verified cases of error or fraud will be dealt with appropriately.”
6. Wide shot, Rice walks to the stakeout position
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7. Close up, cameras
18 JANUARY 2011, NEW YORK CITY
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Susan Rice, Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations:
“I had the opportunity to underscore the congratulations that President Obama expressed to the people of Sudan for the historic referendum that has just occurred peacefully, and by all accounts, credibly. It was a real milestone in the history of Sudan and for the people of Sudan, and we obviously, like the people of Sudan await the process of determining the results and we urge all to remain calm and peaceful as they have been throughout this process.”
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
9. Close up, reporter’s notepad
18 JANUARY 2011, NEW YORK CITY
10. Med shot, Rice walks away from the stakeout position
11. Wide shot, Osman walks to the stakeout position
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12. Close up, reporter’s notepad
18 JANUARY 2011, NEW YORK CITY
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Daffa-Alla Elhag Ali Osman, Permanent Representative of the Sudan to the United Nations:
“That was ignited by the members of Dinka Ngok and Misseriya. It was not, you know, an engagement or clashes between the armed forces, Government armed forces or SPLM armed forces. And then, as a result of that, both parties of the CPA, that is the Government of Sudan and the SPLM, they intervened and they contained the situation promptly.”
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
14. Close up, photographer
18 JANUARY 2011, NEW YORK CITY
15. Med shot, Osman walks away from the stakeout position
The Security Council today (18 January) heard briefings via teleconference from the Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) for the Sudan, Haile Menkerios, and the Head of the Panel on the Referenda in the Sudan, Benjamin Mkapa. Both officials expressed confidence that the polls were conducted in a largely peaceful and credible manner.
Menkerios said that Sudan is “on the eve of a new dawn” and stressed that it will need “a heavy dose of encouragement and support from the international community” to ensure that the remaining steps of the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) are thoroughly implemented.
He added that he hoped this will signify a “final and definitive break with the past” and “a new era of prosperity and stability for all Sudanese.”
Mkapa told the Council that the panel under his charge “has so far found no evidence to suggest that there was any systematic or widespread attempt to undermine the polling process.”
He said that it is now “closely following the aggregation of results” and assured that “any alleged errors or fraud will be thoroughly investigated” and “dealt with appropriately.”
Outside the Security Council, United States Ambassador Susan Rice told reporters that she had relayed President Barack Obama’s congratulations to the people of Sudan for the “historic referendum that has just occurred peacefully, and by all accounts, credibly.”
She added that the successful polls were “a real milestone in the history of Sudan” and urged the Sudanese people “to remain calm and peaceful as they have been throughout this process” while awaiting the results.
Sudanese Ambassador Daffa-Alla Elhag Ali Osman told reporters that the clashes in the Abyei region during the first days of the referendum were “ignited” by members of Dinka Ngok and Misseriya tribes and was not ”an engagement or clashes” between the Government armed forces or the Sudan Peoples' Liberation Movement (SPLM) armed forces.
He added that both parties to the CPA, the Government and the SPLM “intervened and they contained the situation promptly.”
The 9-15 January plebiscite will determine whether the south remains part of Sudan or chooses independence, and is part of the CPA, which ended two decades of civil war between the north and the south.
It is estimated that the 60 per cent of the nearly four million voters registered to take part in the referendum necessary for the outcome to be valid had been easily surpassed.
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