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STORY: UN / MALI
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SOURCE: UNTV
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / FRENCH / NATS
DATELINE: 16 JANUARY 2014, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior UN building
16 JANUARY 2014, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. Med shot, Mali Representative
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Bert Koenders, Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA):
“Mali is at a crossroad and the international community should continue to actively support ongoing national efforts to steer the country in the right direction and avoid relapsing into old habits that gave rise to the unprecedented crisis a year ago. In that sense, the real work in Mali is only just starting. That work remains fraught with risks and takes place in a volatile regional setting.”
5. Various shots, delegates
6. SOUNDBITE (French) Bert Koenders, Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA):
“The year which has just closed was a decisive one for the Malian people. In spite of challenges, the Malian people have demonstrated the will and the desire to move forward after a multifaceted crisis which rocked the country in 2012. In this manner, presidential and legislative elections were freely and fairly conducted across the country. This allowed Mali to reinstate its territorial integrity as well a return to constitutional order.”
7. Med shot, delegates
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Bert Koenders, Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA):
“The security challenges and the expectations of the population are enormous. It is therefore essential that the international community continues to back without delay efforts to accelerate the generation and deployment of the remaining MINUSMA units in the North of the country.”
9. Med shot, delegates
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Sékou Kassé, Permanent Representative of Mali to the United Nations:
“It is important that MINUSMA be provided with adequate means, and I repeat, adequate means so as to be allowed to carry its mandate in line with the strategic objectives of the Malian Government with the key goal being the reestablishments of the Malian State across the country, including in the Kidal region.”
11. Wide shot, Security Council
12. Wide shot, Koenders walks up to the stakeout mike
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
13. Close up, reporter’s notepad
16 JANUARY 2014, NEW YORK CITY
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Bert Koenders, Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA):
“90 percent of the needed forces are committed; now, the question is the pace of deployment in the next couple of weeks and months. And I think we all urge the troop contributing countries and those who support the troop contributing countries by ensuring that they have the right equipment, that they can work in very difficult circumstances, that they can be there as soon as possible.”
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
15. Close up, reporter’s notepad
16 JANUARY 2014, NEW YORK CITY
16. Wide shot, Koenders walks away from the stakeout mike
The United Nations top official in Mali told the Security Council today (16 January) that the country “is at a crossroad” and urged the international community to continue to support efforts “to steer the country in the right direction and avoid relapsing into old habits that gave rise to the unprecedented crisis a year ago.”
Bert Koenders, who is the Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), said “the real work in Mali is only just starting” and the work “remains fraught with risks and takes place in a volatile regional setting.”
The official said that 2013 “was a decisive one for the Malian people” and pointed out that presidential and legislative elections were “freely and fairly conducted across the country” which “allowed Mali to reinstate its territorial integrity as well a return to constitutional order.”
Koenders said “the security challenges and the expectations of the population are enormous” and stressed that it was “essential that the international community continues to back without delay efforts to accelerate the generation and deployment of the remaining MINUSMA units in the North of the country.”
Also addressing the Council, Malian Ambassador Sékou Kassé said it was important that MINUSMA be provided with “adequate means” in order to be able to carry its mandate “in line with the strategic objectives of the Malian Government with the key goal being the reestablishments of the Malian State across the country, including in the Kidal region.”
Outside the Council, Koenders told reporters that 90 percent of the needed forces have been committed, but “the question is the pace of deployment in the next couple of weeks and months.”
He urged the troop contributing countries “and those who support the troop contributing countries” and ensure “that they have the right equipment, that they can work in very difficult circumstances, that they can be there as soon as possible.”
The Security Council set up the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) in April to support the West African country's recovery from a coup and the occupation of its north by Islamist fundamentalists, its transition back to stability and democratic governance, and the promotion of human rights and provision of humanitarian aid.
Elections were held last month in Mali. The second round of Parliamentary elections was the last step in democratic transition after the military coup in 2012.
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