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SOUTH SUDAN / INDEPENDENCE CELEBRATIONS
STORY: SOUTH SUDAN / INDEPENDENCE CELEBRATIONS
TRT: 4.09
SOURCE: UNMISS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / ARABIC / NATS
DATELINE: 9 JULY 2011, SOUTH SUDAN
1. Pan left, crowds during celebrations looking at soldiers marching by
2. Med shot, soldiers march by
3. Med shot, Salva Kiir and Omar Hassan Ahmed Al Bashir at podium with US
Ambassador Susan Rice and former US Secretary of State Collin Powell standing behind
4. Med shot, soldiers marching by
5. Wide shot, march
6. Med shot, crowd of people looking at march
7. Wide shot, crowd monument of John Garang being unveiled with huge crowd around it waving flags
8. Zoom in, John Garang monument
9. SOUND-UP (English) Salva Kiir Mayardit, President, South Sudan:
“I General Salva Kiir Mayardit do here swear by the all mighty God that as President of the Republic of South Sudan shall be faithful and bare true allegiance to the Republic of South Sudan.”
10. Med shot, crowd cheering
11. SOUND-UP (English) Salva Kiir Mayardit, President, South Sudan:
“For many generations this land has seen untold suffering and death. We have been bombed, maimed, enslaved and treated worse than a refugee in our own country; but we have to forgive although we will not forget.”
12. Med shot, crowd
13. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Omar Hassan Ahmed Al Bashir, President, Sudan:
“Although we were working hard for voluntary unity, but for the sake of peace we have accepted the separation of the South out of the united Sudan so that they can form a new country. As we declared yesterday in Khartoum, we have confessed the formation of the new country. Although we believe that the unity of Sudan was best for the north and the South.”
14. Wide shot, crowd cheering
15. SOUND-UP (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Few aspects of the peace process have not been completed. The referendum in Abyei has yet to take place. The voices of the people of South Kordofan and Blue Nile have not yet been heard in popular consultations, and in recent weeks we have seen due violence and human suffering inflamed by potentially dangerous rhetoric. So today let this be a moment for north and south to declare unequivocally that they remain committed to addressing the unfinished business of the comprehensive peace agreement.”
16. Various shots, helicopters fly by holding the new South Sudan flag
Amid great jubilation, South Sudan today (9 July) became the world's newest State, formally seceding from Sudan to attain independence in the culmination of a United Nations-facilitated peace process that ended decades of conflict.
The huge crowd that gathered in Juba to witness the independence ceremony erupted in loud cheers and ululations as the Sudanese flag was lowered for the last time and the new colours of the Republic of South Sudan were hoisted, following which Salva Kiir took the oath of office as President and signed a new interim constitution.
SOUND-UP (English) Salva Kiir Mayardit, President, South Sudan:
“For many generations this land has seen untold suffering and death. We have been bombed, maimed, enslaved and treated worse than a refugee in our own country; but we have to forgive although we will not forget.”
Speaking after Kiir was President Omar Al Bashir, President of Sudan.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Omar Hassan Ahmed Al Bashir, President, Sudan:
“Although we were working hard for voluntary unity, but for the sake of peace we have accepted the separation of the South out of the united Sudan so that they can form a new country. As we declared yesterday in Khartoum, we have confessed the formation of the new country. Although we believe that the unity of Sudan was best for the north and the South.”
United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who was among the dozens of dignitaries from across the world attending the independence ceremony in the new country's capital, Juba, congratulated the people of South Sudan, pledging that the UN would help the new nation establish effective institutions of governance.
SOUND-UP (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Few aspects of the peace process have not been completed. The referendum in Abyei has yet to take place. The voices of the people of South Kordofan and Blue Nile have not yet been heard in popular consultations, and in recent weeks we have seen due violence and human suffering inflamed by potentially dangerous rhetoric. So today let this be a moment for north and south to declare unequivocally that they remain committed to addressing the unfinished business of the comprehensive peace agreement.”
On the eve of South Sudan's independence, the Security Council voted unanimously to set up a new United Nations mission to help Africa's newest nation consolidate peace and lay the foundation for longer-term state-building, conflict prevention and economic development.
The Council's resolution 1996 (2011) established the UN Mission in the Republic of South Sudan (UNMISS) for an initial period of one year. Headed by the newly appointed Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Hilde Johnson of Norway, the peacekeeping mission will consist of up to 7,000 military personnel and up to 900 police personnel as well as a civilian component.
UNMISS will take over from the UN Mission in Sudan (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.
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