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STORY: UN / DRC
TRT: 2.08
SOURCE: UNTV / MONUSCO
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 13 JANUARY 2014, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
13 JANUARY 2014, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. Med shot, delegates
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Martin Kobler, Special Representative for Democratic Republic of Congo and Head of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO):
“In 2013, 151 children, including babies caught in cross-fire and primary students summarily executed, were killed or maimed as a result of conflict related violence. 260 underage girls were documented by MONUSCO as having been raped by parties to the conflict. This is only the tip of the iceberg. Their childhood is destroyed; their future is brutally burdened. We cannot remain silent and passive. This is the very reason you sent us to the DRC.”
5. Med shot, delegates
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Martin Kobler, Special Representative for Democratic Republic of Congo and Head of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO):
“Our position is clear, we are not in the DRC to react but to act, we are not there to deter but to prevent, and we do not only keep the peace, but we must make peace a long term reality. With the Force Intervention Brigade and our Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, all armed groups are aware now that we have the will and the means to take robust action at any time.”
7. Med shot, delegates
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Mary Robinson, Special Envoy for the Great Lakes Region:
“The region is going through a period of renewed turbulence. On 25 December, the ADF rebel group attacked the town of Kamango during which more than 50 people were killed. On 30 December, the FARDC repelled a series of coordinated attacks in Kinshasa, Lubumbashi and Kindu, leading to the death of more than 100 people.”
9. Wide shot, Security Council with Video screen on background
FILE – MONUSCO - 27 DECEMBER, 2013, BWEREMANA VILLAGE, GOMA, DRC
10.Med shot, men carrying bananas on bicycles
11. Close shot, UN trucks with containers
12. Wide shot, ex-combatants chanting
FILE – MONUSCO - 3 DECEMBER 2013, GOMA, DR CONGO
13. Various shots, UAV on land
14. Various shots, UAV taking off
UN officials today (13 Jan) voiced concern about renewed violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) after a year marked by significant milestones.
The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the DRC, Martin Kobler, told the Security Council that “in 2013, 151 children, including babies caught in cross-fire and primary students summarily executed, were killed or maimed as a result of conflict related violence.”
Kobler said 260 underage girls were documented by the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) “as having been raped by parties to the conflict.”
The Special Representative said “we cannot remain silent and passive” and noted that “this is the very reason” MONUSCO was mandated in the DRC.
Kobler said MONUSCO’s position was clear, “we are not in the DRC to react but to act, we are not there to deter but to prevent, and we do not only keep the peace, but we must make peace a long term reality.”
Kobler told the Council that the signing last year of the Framework was a major milestone, along with the creation of the intervention brigade within MONUSCO.
He said that in 2013, with the deployment of the Force Intervention Brigade (FIB) and the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), “all armed groups are aware now that we have the will and the means to take robust action at any time.”
Addressing the Council via videoconference, the Special Envoy for the Great Lakes Region, Mary Robinson, said the positive atmosphere that had followed the defeat of the M23 rebel group was now gone.
Robinson said “the region is going through a period of renewed turbulence” and noted that on 25 December, the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) rebel group attacked the town of Kamango during which more than 50 people were killed.
On 30 December, she added, the Congolese Armed Forces (FARDC) “repelled a series of coordinated attacks in Kinshasa, Lubumbashi and Kindu, leading to the death of more than 100 people.”
Robinson stressed the importance of the Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework for the DRC and the Region – signed by 11 nations in February 2013 – to achieve sustainable peace, security, cooperation and development in the Great Lakes Region.
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