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STORY: UN / DR CONGO
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SOURCE: UNTV
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 28 MARCH 2013, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
28 MARCH 2013, NEW YORK CITY
2. Various shots, Security Council vote
3. Med shot, delegates
4. SOUNDBITE (French) Gérard Araud, Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations:
“The resolution aims to reduce the threat of armed groups to civilians and allows for the first time for the deployment of an intervention brigade with an offensive mandate so as to stop the spread of armed groups and to neutralize them, taking away their weapons with the goal of stabilizing the Eastern DRC.”
5. Med shot, delegates
6. SOUNDBITE (French) Raymond Tshibanda N'tungamulongo, Minister for Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation and Francophonie of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC):
“Let the deployment of this brigade be as swift as possible. The life and dignity of men, women and children in North Kivu, South Kivu, Ituri and North Katanga hangs in the balance as does the effective credibility of this Organization.”
7. Wide shot, Security Council
8. Zoom in, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Hervé Ladsous, walks up to the stakeout position
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
9. Close up, reporter’s notepad
28 MARCH 2013, NEW YORK CITY
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Hervé Ladsous, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations:
“This, of course, is a very new tool because it means, for the first time, that there will be a police enforcement capacity which will carry out targeted offensive operations, either in support of the Congolese Army or unilaterally in order to neutralize the armed groups, the negative forces that have created so much suffering over the years.”
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
11. Close up, reporter’s laptop
28 MARCH 2013, NEW YORK CITY
12. Zoom in, Ladsous, walks away from the stakeout position
The Security Council today (28 March) unanimously approved a resolution setting up an intervention brigade to help the Congolese National Army combat rebel groups in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC.)
Ambassador Gérard Araud of France told the Council the resolution is aimed at reducing the threat of armed groups to civilians and for the first time includes a mandate “so as to stop the spread of armed groups and to neutralize them, taking away their weapons with the goal of stabilizing the Eastern DRC.”
The resolution strengthens the role of the UN peacekeeping mission in the country (MONUSCO) and endorses the Secretary-General’s comprehensive approach to addressing the root causes of instability in the Great Lakes region.
The intervention brigade will be a special force within MONUSCO that would have the ability to conduct, with or without the Congolese national army, offensive operations against all armed groups that threaten peace in the eastern part of the country.
The Congolese Minister for Foreign Affairs, Raymond Tshibanda N'tungamulongo, welcomed the resolution and called for “the deployment of this brigade be as swift as possible.”
He said “the life and dignity of men, women and children in North Kivu, South Kivu, Ituri and North Katanga hangs in the balance as does the effective credibility of this Organization.”
Fighting resumed in eastern DRC in April of last year, when the M23 – made up of former national army troops – mutinied. Since then, clashes between M23 fighters and the DRC’s national army (FARDC) have displaced nearly a million people in North Kivu province, and in February, more than 300,000 people were displaced by additional fighting in the south-eastern province of Katanga.
Outside the Council, the Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Hervé Ladsous, said this was “a very new tool” as “for the first time, that there will be a police enforcement capacity which will carry out targeted offensive operations, either in support of the Congolese Army or unilaterally in order to neutralize the armed groups, the negative forces that have created so much suffering over the years.”
Last week, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appointed former Irish president Mary Robinson as his new Special Envoy for the Great Lakes region. She will support the implementation of the implementation of the Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework for the DRC.
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