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STORY: SOUTH SUDAN / LOEJ PRESSER
TRT: 2.33
SOURCE: UNMISS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /NATS
DATELINE: 7 OCTOBER 2014, JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN
1. Wide shot, press room
2. Med shot, journalists
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Ellen Margrethe Loej Special Representative of the Secretary General:
“In the meantime until a peace agreement has been reached sooner rather than later , we need to ensure protection of civilians we need to ensure that humanitarian assistance reaches areas of need and we need to ensure that there is accountability for human rights violations “.
4. Med shot, journalists
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Ellen Margrethe Loej, Special Representative of the Secretary General:
"UNMISS and the Humanitarian partners are working very closely on durable and sustainable solution including encouraging the voluntary and I underline: voluntary return of IDPs to their homes”.
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7. SOUNDBITE (English) Ellen Margrethe Loej Special Representative of the Secretary General:
“The challenges in South Sudan are enormous; these challenges are both internal and external. And for the Mission to implement our mandate we require cooperation and support by all parties in South Sudan: the Government, the opposition and other interest groups and it requires cooperation and support from our partners, interlocutors and our colleagues in New York”.
8. Med. Shot journalists
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Ellen Margrethe Loej Special Representative of the Secretary General:
“As soon as the guns are silent the quicker can both the Mission and the Aid agencies focus on assisting people in need both in terms of Humanitarian assistance but also in terms of other development needs in this Country and we hope that once we get the guns to silent we can focus on assisting the South Sudanese people in rebuilding or in really in building and developing this new Nation that saw the light of day just three years ago”.
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At her first press conference in capacity of chief of the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS Ellen Margrethe Loej stressed today in Juba the vital need for South Sudan’s political leaders “to make the necessary compromise for peace”.
In the meantime, Loej said the priorities are ensuring protection of civilians, humanitarian assistance and accountability for human rights violations.
Reiterating her commitment to impartially implement the mission’s mandate, Ms. Loej also described the first month of her tenure as an “informative and learning experience” which had had a “sobering impact”.
Outlining the mission’s new mandate, Ms. Loej stressed that protection of civilians remained central to the country’s stability and was a core priority of the UNMISS mandate.
Underlining that “these protection of civilian sites are not viable long term solutions for plight of the inhabitants” she said that the UNMISS and its humanitarian partners are working on “durable and sustainable solution” which will also include a “voluntary return of IDPs to their homes”.
Chief of UNMISS noted that there were over one million people displaced in the country in addition to the thousands seeking shelter on the mission’s bases.
Asked about President Salva Kiir’s recent call for the mission to include capacity building in its mandate, Loej stressed that such a decision lay solely in the hands of the Security Council.
She said she was not looking backwards at past poor relations with the government, but rather forward to fruitful interactions and constructive dialogue.
