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STORY: UN / COTE D’IVOIRE
TRT: 2.47
SOURCE: UNTV/ ONUCI
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 3 MARCH 2011, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior UN building
3 MARCH 2011, NEW YORK CITY
2. Zoom in, Li walks up to the microphone
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
3. Close up, camera
3 MARCH 2011, NEW YORK CITY
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Li Baodong, Permanent Representative of China to the United Nations:
“The members of the Security Council remain deeply concerned about recent escalation of violence in Côte d’Ivoire, especially Abidjan falling reported attacks on civilians, including women. They are also deeply concerned about increasing numbers of refugees and internally displaced persons caused by the violence. They express their concern about the risk of the resurgence of civil war and urge all parties to show utmost restraint to prevent it.”
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
5. Close up, reporter’s notepad
3 MARCH 2011, NEW YORK CITY
6. Zoom out, Li walks away from the microphone
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
7. Close up, cameras
3 MARCH 2011, NEW YORK CITY
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Youssoufou Bamba, Permanent Representative of Côte d’Ivoire to the United Nations:
“We would like the statement to be stronger, to condemn the atrocities perpetrating right now. You recall, two months ago I warned about the genocide, today I will reiterate it, the genocide in the making. They are killing people along ethnic lines. They are killing nationals from foreign countries, from neighbouring countries. They are killing people who oppose Mr. Gbagbo.”
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
9. Close up, reporter’s notepad
3 MARCH 2011, NEW YORK CITY
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Youssoufou Bamba, Permanent Representative of Côte d’Ivoire to the United Nations:
“Mr. Gbagbo is trying to violate the embargo with the help of some people. So, it is true that he wanted these three helicopters to be smuggled into the country and be assembled. That’s true. This is something we heard from credible sources of intelligence who stated that.”
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
11. Close up, reporter’s notepad
3 MARCH 2011, NEW YORK CITY
12. Tracking shot, Bamba walks away from the microphone
RECENT – ONUCI - 15 FEBRUARY 2011, ABIDJAN, COTE D’IVOIRE
13. Aerial shot, charred tires in Yopougon district
14. Close up, Brazilian peacekeeper inside airplane
15. Aerial shot, Ivorian Security Defence Force tanks along Abobo district
16. Aerial shot, UNOCI tanks along Abobo district
17. Aerial shot, crowd gathered on thoroughfare
The Security Council today (3 Mar) issued a presidential statement expressing deep concern over the recent escalation of violence in Côte d’Ivoire, especially in its capital, Abidjan, where there have been multiple reported attacks on civilians, including women.
The statement, read by China’s Ambassador Li Baodong, also shows concerned about the increasing numbers of refugees and internally displaced persons caused by the violence, and “about the risk of the resurgence of civil war”, urging all parties to the conflict ”to show utmost restraint to prevent it.”
The Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Alain Le Roy, in his briefing to the Council this morning had discussed the mounting tensions in the troubled African nation, reporting an increased number of clashes, escalating violence and further incidents of the harassment of peacekeepers.
Ivorian Ambassador, Youssoufou Bamba, who represents United Nations(UN)-certified President-elect Alassane Ouattara, told reporters that he would have liked the statement to be stronger and “to condemn the atrocities perpetrating right now.”
He reiterated that the violence constitutes “genocide in the making” as government forces “are killing people along ethnic lines” as well as killing nationals “from neighbouring countries.”
The country was thrown into turmoil by former President Laurent Gbagbo refusal to leave office despite opposition Ouattara’s victory in last November’s run-off poll.
Commenting on the UN’s public apology to Belarus over a report that Belarus had supplied attack helicopters to Gbagbo in violation of an arms embargo, Bamba said that although that particular report was inaccurate, Gbagbo indeed “wanted these three helicopters to be smuggled into the country and be assembled.”
He said that this was “something we heard from credible sources of intelligence.”
The UN Mission in Côte d’Ivoire (UNOCI) reported that 50 people have died during the last week in violent clashes between the Forces de défense et de sécurité (FDS) and the Forces Nouvelles or other groups across the country. Twenty-six people died in the Abobo district alone and 200,000 people have fled the neighbourhood, according to the Mission.
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