UN / DRC VOTE

The Security Council extended for one year the UN mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) – along with its Intervention Brigade – French Ambassador Gerard Araud called the  creation of the intervention brigade a, “breakthrough” for the organization.  UNTV/FILE

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:30
• Production Date: 28 March 2014
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS ORGANIZATION STABILIZATION MISSION IN THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - MONUSCO
• Subject Topical: POLITICAL CONDITIONS; POLITICAL MOVEMENTS; INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; PEACE AND SECURITY; DISARMAMENT
• Geographic Subject: DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO
• MAMS Id: U140328c

Description

STORY: UN / DRC VOTE
TRT: 2.30
SOURCE: UNTV / FILE
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE 28 MARCH 2014, NEW YORK CITY

Shotlist

FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters

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2. Wide shot, Security Council voting
3. Wide shot, French ambassador walking to stakeout position

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4. Close up, camera

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5. SOUNDBITE (English) Gérard Araud, Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations:
“The main one being the defeat of the rebel group M23. This first success shouldn’t make us to forget two elements. The first one is that we have to neutralize the other armed groups. The MONUSCO has started with DADF and has also started its operation against the FDLR. We have in our text a specific paragraph on that.”

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6. Close up, notepad

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7. SOUNDBITE (English) Gérard Araud, Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations:
“The second element is that if we want our military success be solid and sustainable we have to move now to the civilian field, which means that the DRC State has to deploy State institutions in the Eastern DRC.”

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8. Close up, journalist’s notepad

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9. SOUNDBITE (English) Gérard Araud, Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations:
“Actually, the creation of the intervention brigade is really in essence a breakthrough in this organization because so far –as you know- the peacekeeping operations were to keep peace. While the mandate of the intervention brigade is very clearly –you know- to go and fight the armed groups. So, it is quite different from simply keeping peace. So, in essence this creation of the intervention brigade was very new and the UN like any organization doesn’t like very much what it is new.”

FILE - 17 JULY 2013, SAKE FIB CAMP NEAR GOMA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO (DRC)

10. Wide shot, intervention brigades soldiers walking
11. Close up, walking boots
12. Med shot, soldiers aiming guns to shoot
13. Med shot, two commanders
14. Various shots, soldiers aiming guns
15. Med shot, commander shouting orders
15. Various shots, manoeuvres

Storyline

The Security Council today extended for one year the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) – along with its Intervention Brigade – noting the need for the mission to strengthen its support so the Congolese government can address security challenges in line with the aims of a regional peace and security accord.

Unanimously adopting a wide-ranging resolution, the Council renewed the mandate of both MONUSCO and its Intervention Brigade until 31 March 2015.

Later, speaking to reporters outside of the Security Council, French Ambassador Gerard Araud said that there has been progress made on the ground.
Asked why the negotiations of the intervention brigade was so difficult, Araud said that the creation of the intervention brigade was a actually a “breakthrough” for the organization.

The Council decided that future reconfigurations of MONUSCO and its mandate should be determined on the basis of the evolution of the situation on the ground and, in the context of implementation by the Government of DRC and all other signatories of the region-wide 2013 Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework.

The Council today authorized MONUSCO to take all necessary measures to perform a range of tasks, including, among others: protect civilians; neutralize armed groups through the Intervention Brigade in a “robust, highly mobile and versatile manner and in strict compliance with international law;” monitor implementation of the arms embargo; and provide support to national and international judicial processes in the DRC.

Running throughout the resolution is the Council’s deep concern about the humanitarian situation in the DRC and its strong condemnation of all armed groups operating in the region and their violations of international law, and abuses of human rights.