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STORY: UN / COTE D’IVOIRE
TRT: 1.59
SOURCE: UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: FRENCH / NATS
DATELINE: 28 APRIL 2011, NEW YORK CITY
RECENT 2011, UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations Headquarters
28 APRIL 2011, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. Cutaway, delegates
4. SOUNDBITE (French) Youssoufou Bamba, Permanent Representative of Cote D’Ivoire to the United Nations:
The extended sanctions regime extended for an extra year till the 30th of April 2012 is necessary we believe in particular to consolidate the end of the state of belligerence of from which Cote D’Ivoire has suffered the last 4 months. My county in fact, like other nations, would like to work for its socioeconomic development in a climate of peace and security and so we cannot allow those efforts to be compromised by an environment with a lot of illicit arms flows.”
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6. SOUNDBITE (French) Youssoufou Bamba, Permanent Representative of Cote D’Ivoire to the United Nations:
“The President of the Republic, his Excellency Alassane Ouattara and his government are at present trying to deal with urgent matters in order to improve the daily life of our people. Among his primary concerns is the restoration of public order and security, particularly in the economic capital of Abidjan.”
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8. SOUNDBITE (French) Youssoufou Bamba, Permanent Representative of Cote D’Ivoire to the United Nations:
“It is unthinkable that national reconstruction could be reliably done without ownership of this noble work by all sons and daughters of Cote D’Ivoire brought together in operating in solidarity. President Ouattara is mindful of what’s at stake and therefore has decided to establish in the next few weeks a truth and reconciliation Commission according to the model that was put into South Africa by President Mandela after the fall of Apartheid.”
9. Wide shot, Security Council
The United Nations (UN) Security Council today (28 Apr) in New York voted to extend the arms embargo it imposed on Cote d’Ivoire to curb illegal trafficking of weapons for one more year.
Addressing the members of the Council, Cote d’Ivoire’s Ambassador Youssoufou Bamba said the extension was necessary to consolidate the end of “the state of belligerence” his country had suffered in the last four months.
He added that Cote D’Ivoire like other nations, wanted to develop socio-economically in a climate of peace and security and those efforts couldn’t be compromised by an environment with illicit arms flows.
Bamba noted that normalcy in the every day life was gradually returning to Cote D’Ivoire following former President Laurent Gbagbo’s departure.
“The President of the Republic, his Excellency Alassane Ouattara and his government are at present trying to deal with urgent matters in order to improve the daily life of our people. Among his primary concerns is the restoration of public order and security, particularly in the economic capital of Abidjan,” Bamba said.
He added that the lack of understanding, the divisions, the intolerance, and unjustifiable hate and blind violence, as well as the mourning and traumatism suffered in some extent by every Ivorian and family, made it unthinkable that national reconstruction could be reliably done without ownership.
Bamba noted that President Ouattara was mindful of what was at stake and therefore he had decided to establish, in the next few weeks, a truth and reconciliation commission based on the South African model created President Nelson Mandela following the Apartheid.
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