UN / SPLM PAGN AMUM

Pagan Amum, Secretary-General of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM), said his party had "concrete and credible evidence" on the ground of the involvement of the National Congress Party (NCP) in the destabilization of Southern Sudan through "training, arming and financing militia groups."

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:10
• Production Date: 21 March 2011
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS ASSISTANCE MISSION IN SUDAN - UNMIS
• Subject Topical: POLITICAL AFFAIRS; LAW; INTERNATIONAL LAW; POLITICAL CONDITIONS; POLITICAL CONDITIONS; POLITICAL MOVEMENTS; INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; PEACE AND SECURITY
• Geographic Subject: SUDAN
• MAMS Id: U110321l

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STORY: UN / SPLM PAGAN AMUN
TRT: 2.10
SOURCE: UNTV / UNMIS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 21 MARCH 2011, NEW YORK CITY / FILE

Shotlist

RECENT 2011, UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS, NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters

21 MARCH 2011, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, SPLM Secretary-General Pagan Amun Okech approaches microphone
3. Cutaway, cameramen
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Pagan Amun Okech, Secretary-General, SPLM:
“We have concrete and credible evidence both documentary evidence as well as material evidence on the ground on the involvement of the National Congress Party (NCP) in the destabilization of Southern Sudan through creating, training, arming and financing militia groups to desstabilize Southern Sudan.”
5. Cutaway, journalists taking notes
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Pagan Amun Okech, Secretary-General, SPLM:
“We’re here to call for the help of the Security Council of United Nations to help the parties first of all to call on the National Congress Party to desist from desestabilizing Southern Sudan and focus on negotiating agreements that would be the basis for a cooperative relations between the two states of Southern Sudan and Northern Sudan.”
7. Cutaway, journalists taking notes
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Pagan Amun Okech, Secretary-General, SPLM:
“The National Congress party have deployed police and armed forces inside Abyei in violation of all agreements that we have signed with them and that were breached too including the Quadugi agreement that we wanted to be implemented but it calls for the withdrawal of military forces in from the area and South is having forces in the Northern part of Abyei. This is they should withdraw them.”

FILE / UNMIS / 2, 3 MARCH 2011 ABYEI, KADGULI, SUDAN

9. Wide shot, burnt huts
10. Wide shot, security officers walking towards burnt huts
11. Med shot, security officers walking with gun
12. Wide shot, wounded policemen being carried
13. Med shot, wounded policeman being laid in a van
14. Med shot, dead policeman being put in the van
15. Wide shot, more people leaving Abyei town
16. Med shot, peacekeepers

Storyline

Pagan Amum, Secretary-General of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM), said his party had “concrete and credible evidence” on the ground of the involvement of the National Congress Party (NCP) in the destabilization of Southern Sudan through “training, arming and financing militia groups.”

Speaking to reporters today prior to a closed Security Council meeting on the issue,
Amum accused Khartoum’s National Congress Party (NCP) of backing militias with the intention of destabilizing the region as it approaches independence.

He said he was in New York to ask the Security Council to call on the NCP to desist from destabilizing Southern Sudan and also to focus on negotiating agreements that would be the basis for cooperative relations between Southern Sudan and Northern Sudan.

He also noted that the NCP had deployed police and armed forces inside Abyei in violation of all signed agreements including the recently signed Kadugli agreement (6 March) that calls for the withdrawal of military forces from the Northern part of Abyei.