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DATELINE: 6 MARCH 2014, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior UN building
6 MARCH 2014, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. Med shot, delegations
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Hervé Ladsous, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations:
“In the early phase of its deployment, the objectives of the United Nations peacekeeping operation will focus on providing a secure environment, a sine qua non for progress in other areas, supporting the Transitional Government to exercise basic state functions, supporting peace and mediation efforts, extension of State authority, protecting basic human rights, and facilitation the delivery of humanitarian assistance.”
5. Med shot, delegations
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Valerie Amos, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs:
“The humanitarian Strategic Response Plan for 2014 requests $551 million for humanitarian interventions in CAR. It is modest, given the scale of need. But it is only funded at 16 per cent. Many pledges made at the January Brussels conference –which I co-chaired with EU Commissioner Georgieva- have yet to translate into funds. I ask Member States and international organizations who made pledges to honour them as soon as possible.”
7. Wide shot, Security Council
8. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees:
“Since early December we have effectively witnessed a “cleansing” of the majority of the Muslim population in western CAR. Tens of thousands of them have left the country, the second refugee outflow of the current crisis, and most of those remaining are under permanent threat.”
9. Med shot, delegations
10. SOUNDBITE (French) Toussaint Kongo Doudou, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Central African Republic:
“I can assure you here, on behalf of the government of the Central African Republic, that we will provide all the necessary political support and full preparation with respect of the implementation of the different recommendations.”
11. Wide shot, zoom out Security Council
12. SOUNDBITE (French) Gérard Araud, Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations:
“We will need to have a sort of –I should say - sequential approach. First, to emphasize the protection of the civilians, the support of the delivery of humanitarian aid; and after that, on a second phase, it will depend on what we will be told by the Special Representative to go to a different phase of a peacekeeping operation. So it means that we will need a sort of strategic planning of having an evolutive peacekeeping operation.”
WFP – FILE - 12 FEBRUARY 2014 - BANGUI AIRPORT – BANGUI, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
13. Wide shot, WFP-chartered Boeing 747 cargo landing next to IDP camp at Bangui airport
14. Wide shot, airport vehicle drives in front of IDP camp
15. Med shot, cargo being moved from inside of the plane
16. Close up, cargo being moved
WFP – FILE - 6 FEBRUARY 2014 - BANGUI, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
17. Various shots, children waiting to receive a nutritious ready to eat food
18. Various shots, houses and shops looted at formerly bustling with Muslims traders and shoppers, now completely deserted
The head of UN peacekeeping operations said that the establishment of a UN peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic would take six months and it will require “a unified approach, through the deployment of a multidimentional peacekeeping operation, with the protection of civilians as its utmost priority.”
Hervé Ladsous told members of the Security Council Council that “in the early phase of its deployment, the objectives of the United Nations peacekeeping operation will focus on providing a secure environment, a sine qua non for progress in other areas, supporting the Transitional Government to exercise basic state functions, supporting peace and mediation efforts, extension of State authority, protecting basic human rights, and facilitation the delivery of humanitarian assistance.”
He added that although the situation in the capital Bangui has stabilized to some extent, civilians are still being killed everyday by other civilians and by armed groups because of their religious affiliations.
The Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Valerie Amos told the 15-member body that “the humanitarian Strategic Response Plan for 2014 requests $551 million for humanitarian interventions in CAR. It is modest, given the scale of need. But it is only funded at 16 per cent.”
She added “many pledges made at the January Brussels conference –which I co-chaired with EU Commissioner Georgieva- have yet to translate into funds.”
Amos, who recently visited the country, asked Member States and international organizations who made pledges to honor them as soon as possible.
She stressed that the situation in CAR remains extremely grave and urgent action by all – including the Security Council- is required to prevent further bloodshed.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees told Security Council that the most important protection and humanitarian objective inside CAR is to re-establish security and law and order.
António Guterres, who was also recently in CAR, stressed that he was shocked by what he saw in the country.
He said “since early December we have effectively witnessed a “cleansing” of the majority of the Muslim population in western CAR. Tens of thousands of them have left the country, the second refugee outflow of the current crisis, and most of those remaining are under permanent threat.”
Guterres noted that in addition to those displaced within the country, over 290,000 people have fled to neighboring Cameroon, Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the Republic of Congo.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Central African Republic Toussaint Kongo Doudou told the Security Council that a UN peacekeeping mission is urgently needed in his country to bolster French and African troops struggling to contain sectarian killing between Muslims and Christians.
He said “I can assure you here, on behalf of the government of the Central African Republic, that we will provide all the necessary political support and full preparation with respect of the implementation of the different recommendations.”
Speaking to reporters after the Security Council meeting, French ambassador Gérard Araud said “we will need to have a sort of –I should say - sequential approach. First to emphasize the protection of the civilians, the support of the delivery of humanitarian aid”.
He added “after that, on a second phase, it will depend on what we will be told by the Special Representative to go to a different phase of a peacekeeping operation. So it means that we will need a sort of strategic planning of having an evolutive peacekeeping operation.”
Araud noted that France will table in the coming weeks a draft resolution which will authorize the creation of a peacekeeping operation in Central African Republic.
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