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STORY: UN / SUDAN
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SOURCE: UNTV
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 8 JANUARY 2013, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
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1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
8 JANUARY 2013, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, John Ging Director of the Operational Division, OCHA approaches the mic
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3. Cutaway, reporters
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) John Ging, Director of the Operational Division, OCHA:
“We are engaged incredibly intensively in negotiations and discussion in an endeavour to broker an agreement. But we have to call it as it is. So far we have failed. What are the prospects? Continued failure unless there is more political will to turn that failure into success. We don't need more process we need more access. And again we need it urgently and desperately and that was my message to the Council.”
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5. Cutaway, reporters taking notes
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) John Ging, Director of the Operational Division, OCHA:
“We humanitarian organizations are standing by with very large stocks of humanitarian assistance to help these people. So we have thousands of tonnes of food. We have the medicines. We have the vaccines for the children. So we are ready to go. We have the logistical capacity in place. All we need is the green light to commence our operations.”
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7. Cutaway, reporters taking notes
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8. SOUNDBITE (English) John Ging, Director of the Operational Division, OCHA:
“We humanitarians are very distressed by the humanitarian plight of the people in south Kordofan and Blue Nile state. We’re appealing to the Security Council for help. It has been eight months since the resolution was passed by the Security Council calling for immediate and unfettered access for humanitarian organizations to these two states. there are 900,000 people in need in either displaced or severe humanitarian need in South Kordofan and blue Nile state or have fled.”
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9. Cutaway, reporters taking notes
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10. Wide shot, US Ambassador Susan Rice approaches mic
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11. Cutaway, reporters taking notes
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12. SOUNDBITE (English) Susan Rice, Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations:
“The parties must now finally move from rhetoric to action, by clearing implementing the agreements reached in Addis Ababa without further delay.”
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13. Cutaway, reporters taking notes
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15. Wide shot, US Ambassador walking away
A UN humanitarian officer today (8 January) told the Security Council that aid attempts for Sudan and South Sudan are failing and doomed to further failure unless there is a political will to work towards gaining access to the areas in need.
John Ging, Director of the Operational Division of the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) told the council that the UN and other agencies have enough food and essentials to serve the 900,000 people in need in the area and all they need is access.
“We don't need more process we need more access,” he told reporters after a closed meeting of the Security Council, “and again we need it urgently and desperately and that was my message to the council.”
“We are engaged incredibly intensively in negotiations and discussion in an endeavour to broker an agreement. But we have to call it as it is. So far we have failed. What are the prospects? Continued failure unless there is more political will to turn that failure into success,” he said.
US Ambassador Susan Rice reminded reporters that leaders of Sudan and South Sudan had reached an agreement on humanitarian access last September and had met again over the last weekend.
She said, “the parties must now finally move from rhetoric to action, by clearing implementing the agreements reached in Addis Ababa without further delay.”
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