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STORY: UN / CENTRAL AFRICA
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SOURCE: UNTV
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / FRENCH / NATS
DATELINE: 29 MAY 2013, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior UN building
29 MAY 2013, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. Med shot, delegates
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Abou Moussa, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa (UNOCA):
“The issue of poaching is another emerging and rapidly growing phenomenon that has the potential to impact negatively on an already challenging peace and security situation in some parts of the sub-region. Over the past five months or so there have been increasing and at times alarming reports underscoring the gravity posed by this threat.”
5. Med shot, delegates
6. SOUNDBITE (French) Martin Briens, Deputy Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations:
“A worrisome trend that the SRSG also touched upon is the growing scope of poaching in Central Africa to fund criminal activities, even terrorism. This phenomenon which endangers the security of the region as well as the endangered species has now been proven. Here cooperation between states of the region, ECCAS, and the African Union and the United Nations must be scaled up.”
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Philip Parham, Deputy Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations:
“Permanent eradication of the LRA requires our continued attention and the creation and consolidation of security and stability in the affected countries. Events in the Central African Republic, as others have already noted, threaten to undermine progress. The United Kingdom calls upon all regional countries to participate fully in the fight against the LRA. We must not allow the LRA to regroup as it has done previously when close to extinction.”
8. Med shot, reporter
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Susan Rice, Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations:
“The United States believes that counter-LRA operations under the AU’s Regional Task-force should resume as soon as possible. We welcome the CAR Transitional Government’s assurances that counter-LRA operations will continue through the AU’s Regional Task-force. Further suspension of military operations in the CAR could allow the LRA to reorganize and further endanger civilians.”
10. Zoom in , Security Council
Security Council members today (29 May) expressed concern about the issue of poaching in the Central African region and its impact on peace and security, linking the illegal ivory
trade to the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA).
Presenting the Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s report on the activities of the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa (UNOCA) his Special Representative, Abou Moussa, told the Council that “the issue of poaching is another emerging and rapidly growing phenomenon that has the potential to impact negatively on an already challenging peace and security situation in some parts of the sub-region.”
Moussa noted that “over the past five months or so there have been increasing and at times alarming reports underscoring the gravity posed by this threat.”
The Report identifies the spread of cross-border criminal activities, including the poaching of elephants, particularly in Cameroon, the Central African Republic (CAR), Chad and Gabon.
Ambassador Martin Briens of France told the Council that “the growing scope of poaching in Central Africa” is funding criminal activities, including terrorism.
Briens said “this phenomenon which endangers the security of the region as well as the endangered species has now been proven.”
He called for a scaling up of cooperation between states of the region, including through the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS), the African Union (AU) and the United Nations (UN).
Ambassador Philip Parham of the United Kingdom told the Council that “permanent eradication of the LRA requires our continued attention and the creation and consolidation of security and stability in the affected countries.”
He called upon “all regional countries to participate fully in the fight against the LRA” and to not allow it “to regroup as it has done previously when close to extinction.”
Ambassador Susan Rice of the United States welcomed the CAR Transitional Government’s assurances that counter-LRA operations will continue through the AU’s Regional Task-force.
She said “further suspension of military operations in the CAR could allow the LRA to reorganize and further endanger civilians.”
Fighting flared up in CAR in December 2012 when the Séléka rebel coalition launched a series of attacks. A peace agreement was reached in January, but the rebels again seized Bangui in March forcing President François Bozizé to flee.
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