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STORY: UN / SOUTH SUDAN
TRT: 2.17
SOURCE: UNIFEED-UNTV /RECENT
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /NATS
DATELINE: 8 AUGUST 2014, NEW YORK CITY /RECENT
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1. Wide shot, exterior of the UN Headquarters
8 AUGUST 2014, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council Chamber
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Lyall Grant, President of the Security Council and the Permanent Representative of the UK to the United Nations:
“The Security Council expresses grave alarm and concern regarding the substantial deterioration of the political and security situation and developing humanitarian catastrophe in South Sudan resulting from the internal Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) political dispute and unrelenting violence, including against civilians, caused by the country’s political and military leaders since December 15, 2013.”
4. Cutaway, delegates
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Lyall Grant, President of the Security Council and the Permanent Representative of the UK to the United Nations:
“The Security Council strongly condemns the repeated violations of the Cessation of Hostilities Agreement accepted and signed by the Republic of South Sudan and the SPLM/A (in Opposition) on January 23, 2014 and emphasizes that the actions of President Salva Kiir and former Vice President Riek Machar in continuing to pursue a military solution to this conflict are unacceptable.”
6. Wide shot, chamber
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Lyall Grant, President of the Security Council and the Permanent Representative of the UK to the United Nations:
“The Security Council underscores its grave concern about the catastrophic food insecurity situation in South Sudan that may soon reach the threshold of famine as a result of continued conflict, civilian targeting, and displacement, stresses the responsibility borne by all parties to the conflict for the suffering of the people of South Sudan and the necessity of ensuring that the basic needs of the population are met, underscores the urgent need to increase funding for humanitarian operations in South Sudan, and encourages UN member States to contribute funds critically needed now to provide life-saving assistance.”
UNICEF - 31 JULY 2014, BENTIU, SOUTH SUDAN
8. Wide shot, Bentiu POC camp
9. Wide shot IDPs walking in camp
10. Wide shot flooded camp
11. Wide shot, flooded camp
12. Wide shot, girl and baby walking through water
13. Wide shot, baby eating
Concerned with the deterioration of the political and security situation and the developing humanitarian catastrophe in South Sudan, the Security Council said it was ready to consider “all appropriate measures including targeted sanctions’ against those who undermine the peace, stability and security of South Sudan.”
In a presidential statement read by the Council’s current president, United Kingdoms' ambassador Mark Lyall Grant, the Security Council expressed “grave alarm and concern” regarding the substantial deterioration of the political and security situation and developing humanitarian catastrophe in South Sudan, the result of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) internal political dispute and unrelenting violence since December 2013.
It “strongly condemned” repeated violations of the Cessation of Hostilities Agreement accepted and signed by the warring parties on January 23, 2014 and had warned both the president Salva Kiir and former Vice President Riek Machar against pursuing “a military solution to this conflict are unacceptable.”
The Security Council also “underscored its grave concern about the catastrophic food insecurity situation in South Sudan that may soon reach the threshold of famine’ as a direct result of the conflict and had stressed the responsibility “borne by all parties to the conflict for the suffering of the people of South Sudan” and the necessity of ensuring that “the basic needs of the population are met.”
An estimated 1.5 million people have been uprooted in fighting that started with a political impasse in mid-December 2013 between President Salva Kiir and former Vice President Riek Machar. The conflict also sent nearly 100,000 civilians fleeing to UN bases around the country.
Some 3.9 million civilians are facing alarming levels of food insecurity, amidst growing concerns of a famine. Meanwhile, among the more than million people have been internally displaced by violence, some 434,000 have fled across borders. Up to 50,000 children are at risk of dying as a consequence of acute malnutrition this year alone. And the cholera epidemic continues to grow with more than 5,300 cases and 115 deaths.
