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UN / HEGLIG BORDER DISPUTE WRAP
STORY: UN / HELGIG BORDER DISPUTE WRAP
TRT: 2.21
SOURCE: UNTV / UNMISS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/ NATS
DATELINE: 19 APRIL 2012, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
19 APRIL 2012, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at the stakeout position
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
3. Wide shot, cameramen
19 APRIL 2012, NEW YORK CITY
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“The last thing the people of these two countries need is another war — a war that could claim countless lives, destroy hope and ruin the prospects of peace and stability and prosperity of all Sudanese people. I urge both sides to exercise maximum restraint, return to the negotiation table and resolve their differences.”
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
5. Close up, reporter’s notepad
19 APRIL 2012, NEW YORK CITY
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“I call on South Sudan to immediately withdraw its forces from Heglig. This is an infringement on the sovereignty of Sudan and a clearly illegal act. I also call on the Government of Sudan to immediately stop shelling and bombing South Sudanese territory and withdraw its forces from disputed territories, in particular Abyei. Both must stop supporting proxy forces against each other.”
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
7. Close up, reporter’s notepad
19 APRIL 2012, NEW YORK CITY
8. Zoom in, Rice walks up to the stakeout position
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
9. Close up, reporter’s notepad
19 APRIL 2012, NEW YORK CITY
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Susan Rice, Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations:
“Both sides need to return to the negotiating table. The escalation of rhetoric on both sides is indeed worrying and it’s only fanning the flames when we think, to the contrary, the effort ought to be made to reduce the flames, douse them and return to the table to resolve the outstanding issues that have made relations between north and south so difficult in the wake of independence.”
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
11. Close up, reporter’s notepad
FILE – UNMISS - 18 APRIL 2012, JUBA SOUTH SUDAN
12. Various shots, demonstration in support of South Sudan’s People’s Army’s capture of oil rich Heglig.
FILE – UNMISS - 13 APRIL 2012, JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN
13. Various shots, demonstrators carrying banners and flags gathered outside the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) compound in support of the seizure and occupation of the town of Heglig
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today (19 April) urged Sudan and South Sudan to end their hostilities, stressing that they must avoid a return to conflict, which has already cost them millions of lives over two decades.
Ban, at a press encounter at UN Headquarters in New York, said that “the last thing the people of these two countries need is another war” as it could “claim countless lives, destroy hope and ruin the prospects of peace and stability and prosperity of all Sudanese people.”
He urged both sides “to exercise maximum restraint, return to the negotiation table and resolve their differences.”
South Sudan became independent from Sudan in July last year, six years after the signing of the peace agreement that ended decades of warfare between the north and the south. However, the peace between the two countries has been threatened recently by clashes along their common border and outstanding post-independence issues that have yet to be resolved.
Ban called on South Sudan to immediately withdraw its forces from the oil-producing region of Heglig in Sudan’s South Kordofan state, describing this as “an infringement on the sovereignty of Sudan and a clearly illegal act.”
He also called on the Government of Sudan to immediately stop shelling and bombing South Sudanese territory and withdraw its forces from disputed territories, in particular Abyei and said that “both must stop supporting proxy forces against each other.”
United States Ambassador Susan Rice, who is the Council’s President for the month of April told reporters outside the Council that “both sides need to return to the negotiating table” and noted that “the escalation of rhetoric on both sides is indeed worrying.
She added that “the effort ought to be made to reduce the flames, douse them and return to the table to resolve the outstanding issues that have made relations between north and south so difficult in the wake of independence.”
Last week, the Security Council voiced growing alarm at the escalating conflict between the two countries, warning that fighting threatens to take them both to full-scale war.
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