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SOUTH SUDAN / ELLEN MARGARETHE LOEJ
STORY: SOUTH SUDAN / ELLEN MARGARETHE LOEJ
TRT: 2.15
SOURCE: UNMISS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/ NATS
DATELINE: 2 SEPTEMBER 2014, JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN
1. Wide shot, Kenya Airways arriving in Juba airport
2. Med shot, SRSG Ellen walking towards VIP
3. Med shot, SRSG greeting South Sudan government representative and UNMISS officials
4. Med shot, SRSG greeting UNMISS officials
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ellen Margrethe Løj - Special Representative of the UN Secretary General (SRSG) to South Sudan:
“I am very happy to be here. I look forward to start my new function as special representative. I will need a lot of briefings and I will need to get to know South Sudan. But it is a huge challenge and I looking forward looking it.”
6. Med. Shot, UN car moving.
7. Wide shot, UN compound
8. Med shot, SRSG , Ellen Margrethe Løj entering Radio Miraya studio
9. Med shot, SRSG , Ellen Margrethe Løj and Miray reporter in studio
10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ellen Margrethe Løj - Special Representative of the UN Secretary General (SRSG) to South Sudan:
“There are around one hundred thousand in UN premises but don’t forget there are probably more than a million internally displaced in the whole county. So it is really a challenge that peace be established and weapons silent because that would give the citizens confidence to go back to their homes to their villages to take care of their land and other chores and I certainly hope that that situation will come as soon as possible.”
11. Med shot, control panel
12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ellen Margrethe Løj - Special Representative of the UN Secretary General (SRSG) to South Sudan:
“The people of South Sudan have fought hard for their independence and I strongly believe that each and every citizen anywhere in the world including in South Sudan deserves a better future, I strongly believe that your sons and daughters should be able to focus on realizing their potential and not worry whether they would be killed tomorrow or whether they would go hungry to bed. “
13. Med shot, Miraya reporter asking question
The new Special Representative of the UN Secretary General (SRSG) to South Sudan, Ellen Margrethe Løj of Denmark, arrived in Juba today.
Upon arrival Løj, who is also the new head of the UN Mission in the country, said that she is happy to be in South Sudan and look forward to start her new function as Special Representative.
She was met at Juba International Airport by UNMISS senior management, led by Deputy SRSG Toby Lanzer and the Undersecretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Charles Manyang,
Løj, who served as SRSG to the UN Mission in Liberia from 2008 to 2012, succeeds Hilde F. Johnson of Norway, who completed her assignment on 7 July.
The new mission chief also previously held a number of senior positions in the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, including as Ambassador to the Czech Republic, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, and Ambassador to Israel.
In an interview with Radio Miraya (a UN Radio) in Juba Løj said, South Sudan needs peace, fighting should stop to give citizens the confidence to go back to their homes.
She added that the challenge is huge and difficult. The people of South Sudan have fought hard for their independence and added that the sons and daughters should be able to focus on realizing their potential and not worry they could be killed tomorrow or go to bed hungry.
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