Media Home
UN Web TV
UN Audiovisual Library
UN PhotoUnifeed
UN / LE ROY
STORY: UN / LE ROY
TRT: 2:15
SOURCE: UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGAUGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 15 APRIL 2011, UNITED NATIONS, NEW YORK CITY / RECENT
RECENT - UNITED NATIONS, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior UN headquarters
15 APRIL 2011, UNITED NATIONS, NEW YORK CITY
2. Med shot, Head of Peacekeeping Alain Le Roy arriving at press conference
3. Cutaway, journalists
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Alain Le Roy, Under-Secretary-General, Peacekeeping Operations:
“Forty-four killed in the last ten days from 30 March – 9 April, just to show and pay tribute to all the peacekeepers and all working in UN operations. They are working in very difficult circumstances. Of course, they are not perfect, they are not able to prevent any killings but at the same time 44 people have been killed in the last 10 days.”
5. Cutaway, journalists
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Alain Le Roy, Under-Secretary-General, Peacekeeping Operations:
“One of my tasks and the whole task of the DPKO and DFS is not to repeat when happened in the 90s where, we all have in mine, when I started my job having in mind, of course, Srebrenica, Rwanda or Somalia of the 90s. And I must say collectively the UN, after the Brahimi report and what we all have in mind have been able not to have this kind of failure anymore.”
7. Cutaway, journalists
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Alain Le Roy, Under-Secretary-General, Peacekeeping Operations:
“I don’t call it success in Ivory Coast, Haiti and Sudan. There are still many challenges. We stood firm and we clearly made a difference compared to few months ago and in none of the cases we have left the places.”
9. Cutaway, journalists
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Alain Le Roy, Under-Secretary-General, Peacekeeping Operations:
“The Security Council took side and decided that Mr. (Laurent) Gbagbo should step aside. That was very clear, unanimously. What we did ourselves is to target heavy weapons. If we had heavy weapons from President (Alassane) Ouattara targeting us or targeting the civilian population, we would have done the same. So that’s my point, our point is to protect civilians from all the places. Maybe in Duékoué, we have not been form enough, have not done enough but the clear instructions was to target heavy weapons targeting the civilian population.”
11. Cutaway, journalists
12. Med shot, end of press conference
Head of United Nations (UN) peacekeeping operations Alain Le Roy said today (15 Apr) that he doesn’t “call it success” in Côte d'Ivoire, Haiti and Sudan and that there were still “many challenges,” adding “we stood firm and we clearly made a difference compared to few months ago and in none of the cases we have left the places.”
Le Roy, who briefed journalists at the UN headquarters, talked about the loss of life in the peacekeeping missions in Afghanistan, Darfur and Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in recent weeks.
A total of 44 UN staff were killed over ten days beginning 30 March. The combined death toll mainly came from the attack on the UN mission in Afghanistan's operations center in Mazar Sharif and the plane crash in the DRC.
In Afghanistan, the recent incident was the third direct attack against UN personnel in the past 18 months.
On the UN’s role in protecting civilians, Le Roy said that both the UN’s and his task as the head of peacekeeping “is not to repeat” the incidents in Srebrenica, Rwanda or Somalia in the 90s that left thousands of people dead.
On the recent military action carried out by peacekeeping troops in Côte d'Ivoire, Le Roy said the UN acted impartially following Security Council resolutions.
He said that it was the Council that “took side and decided that Mr. (Laurent) Gbagbo should step aside” adding that what the UN did was “target heavy weapons” in an effort to protect civilians.
Earlier this week, former Côte d'Ivoire President Gbagbo surrendered after the UN and France destroyed his heavy weapons.
Download
There is no media available to download.
