SOUTH SUDAN / BAN KI-MOON

In an interview today, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who attended the independence ceremony in South Sudan, said the UN and its agencies "are committed and stand ready to work with the new Sudanese Government leaders and people." UNMISS

 

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:56
• Production Date: 9 July 2011
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS MISSION IN SOUTH SUDAN – UNMISS
• Subject Topical: POLITICAL AFFAIRS; LAW; INTERNATIONAL LAW; POLITICAL CONDITIONS; POLITICAL CONDITIONS; POLITICAL MOVEMENTS; INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; PEACE AND SECURITY; DISARMAMENT
• Geographic Subject: SUDAN
• MAMS Id: U110709a

Description

STORY: SOUTH SUDAN / BAN KI-MOON
TRT: 1:56
SOURCE: UNMISS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 9 JULY 2011, JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN

Shotlist

1. Med shot, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon with interviewer
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“The challenges are enormous. The security is still unstable. There is a huge lack of infrastructure. There are huge socio-economic problems and rule of law. You have to have for all these things established as soon as possible. The United Nations will mobilize all resources possible. Agencies are committed and stand ready to work with the new Sudanese Government leaders and people.”
3. Med shot, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon with interviewer
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“We have to establish immediately rule of law, institutions and capacity building of this new government and you have to change, transform the way you have been doing. The SPLM (Sudan People's Liberation Movement) is longer a liberation movement, it should be a national security forces. And the leadership of South Sudan, they are the most responsible country. This country should bare all the responsibility as a state.”
5. Med shot, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon with interviewer
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“I’ve discussed this matter and strongly appeal to the Government of the Republic of Sudan to extent even for a limited time for practical reasons so that people in UNMIS, the peacekeepers can continue to provide protection to civilian population so that there should be no security vacuum.”
7. Med shot, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon with interviewer

Storyline

United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who was among the dozens of dignitaries from across the world attending the independence ceremony in South Sudan, said the UN and its agencies “are committed and stand ready to work with the new Sudanese Government leaders and people.”

During an interview earlier today (9 July) in Juba, Ban urged the new government to “establish immediately rule of law, institutions and capacity building.”

On the issue of security, he said that Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) “is longer a liberation movement, it should be a national security forces.”

Ban, who arrived in Sudan yesterday, reiterated his concern over the ongoing violence in border state of Southern Kordofan and its impact on civilians.

He also appealed to the Government of the Republic of Sudan to extent the mandate of the UN Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) for a limited time “to provide protection to civilian population so that there should be no security vacuum.”

On the eve of South Sudan's independence, the Security Council voted unanimously to set up a new UN mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) to help Africa's newest nation consolidate peace and lay the foundation for longer-term state-building, conflict prevention and economic development.

UNMISS will take over from UNMIS, which was created following the signing of the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) that ended the north-south civil war and paved the way for the referendum through which the people of South Sudan chose independence.