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SOURCE: UNTV / UNMIS / NEWS HANDOUT
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DATELINE: 27 APRIL 2011, NEW YORK CITY/ FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior UN building
27 APRIL 2011, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. Med shot, delegates
4. Med shot, Representative of Sudan
5. Various shot, Security Council vote
FILE - UNMIS - 30 JANUARY 2011, JUBA, SUDAN
6. Various shots, people jumping and singing celebrating South Sudan’s independence
FILE - UNMIS - 2, 3 MARCH 2011 ABYEI, KADGULI, SUDAN
7. Tracking shot burnt huts
8. Med shot, security officer walking with gun
9. Wide shot, wounded policemen being carried
10. Med shot, wounded policeman being laid in a van
FILE - UNMIS - 2 MARCH 2011, ABYEI, SUDAN
11. Wide shot, displaced people walking
FILE – NEWS HANDOUT - 7 FEBRUARY 2011, FANGAK, SUDAN (ACCESS ALL)
12. Med shot, dead body being pulled out of a river
13. Med shot, various dead bodies
14. Various shots, dead bodies being carried away
15. Med shot, bodies in mass grave
16. Med shot, men putting the bodies in the grave
17. Various shots, dead bodies in the grave
18. Wide shot, people standing near the mass grave
FILE – 20 APRIL 2011, NEW YORK CITY
19. Wide shot, Security Council
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Atul Khare, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the Sudan, United Nations:
“It is our view that third party engagement will remain necessary to bring the CPA to a satisfactory conclusion and to further support the African union High Level Implementation Panel (AUHIP) in its efforts to negotiate a post-referendum package.”
FILE – UNMIS - 6 APRIL 2011, KHARTOUM, SUDAN
21. Various shots, UN mission headquarters moment of silence for victims
Security Council members today (27 April) agreed to extend the mandate of the United Nations (UN) peacekeeping mission set up at the end of the north-south civil war in Sudan and establish a replacement operation once the south formally separates in July.
In a unanimous resolution the 15-member Council voted to extend the mandate of the UN Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) until 9 July, the date on which Southern Sudan will become an independent State and break away from the rest of Sudan.
Millions of Southern Sudanese voted overwhelmingly in January in favour of separation in a referendum conducted as part of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), the 2005 pact that ended the long-running civil war.
In today’s resolution the Council said it plans to set up a successor mission to UNMIS and asked Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to submit a report by 16 May on the post-independence options for a UN presence.
Senior UN officials have voiced concern in recent weeks about the violence and tensions within Southern Sudan ahead of independence, as well as ongoing disputes between the north and south over such issues as the status of the Abyei area and border demarcation.
Hundreds of people have been reportedly killed since the start of the year in clashes in various states of the south, often involving Southern Sudanese forces and renegade militia groups.
Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Atul Khare told the Council last week that key elements of the CPA may not be resolved before 9 July, and that these disputes threaten to pull the parties back into open conflict.
SOUNDBITE (English) Atul Khare, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the Sudan, United Nations:
“It is our view that third party engagement will remain necessary to bring the CPA to a satisfactory conclusion and to further support the African union High Level Implementation Panel (AUHIP) in its efforts to negotiate a post-referendum package.”
UNMIS, which has been in place since 2005, currently has more than 10,000 uniformed personnel deployed, as well as more than 4,000 local and international civilian staff and volunteers.
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