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STORY: GA / SOUTH SUDAN WRAP
TRT: 02:47
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 23 SEPTEMBER 2016, NEW YORK CITY / RECENT
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
2. Wide shot, General Assembly Hall with SDG logo on screen
3. Wide shot, First Vice President of the Republic of South Sudan, Taban Deng Gai walks up to the podium
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Taban Deng Gai, First Vice-President of the Republic of South Sudan:
“I want to assure the august house that our government has consented to the UN Security Council resolution 2304 (2016) and its implementation is being discussed by and with UNMISS, Transition Government of National Unity, and the region. My government position is that we have to engage more with UN on the details pertaining to the implementation of this resolution. This is in order to avoid derailing national healing and reconciliation.”
5. Med shot, South Sudan delegation
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Taban Deng Gai, First Vice-President of the Republic of South Sudan:
“External intervention often affects negatively internal reconciliation. The tasks of the Regional Protection Force (RPF) can be advanced through collaboration and cooperation with TGoNU.”
7. Wide shot, Deng Gai at the podium
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Taban Deng Gai, First Vice-President of the Republic of South Sudan:
“The Republic of South Sudan will cooperate with UNMISS, the regional bodies, IGAD, EAC, AU, Troika, EU and all our friends in our journey towards recovery from the tragedy that befell us. We promise to bring peace, justice and rebuild strong and credible Institutions in our country. It is our plan to move the country forward on its major development projects: roads, bridges, new cities, power, education, health, modernizes agriculture so that we can feed our people. We are going to commit our endowed resources from oil, minerals, human resources, etc. for the development of the youngest nation in the world.”
9. Med shot, South Sudan delegation
10. Wide shot, Deng Gai walks away from the podium
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11. Close up, reporter’s notepad
23 SEPTEMBER 2016, NEW YORK CITY
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Hervé Ladsous, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations:
“We are in contact with them about the regional protection force. We are trying to elucidate a number of points that were raised by somewhat contradictory – maybe – statements from Juba, but we are watching this very closely, and you may be sure that the Security Council is indeed watching very, very closely because they expect, and I think it was said so, that the government of South Sudan does uphold the commitments it made in that joint communiqué. When you agree to something, you have to live to your promises.”
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13. Close up, reporter’s notepad
Adresing the General Assembly, the First Vice-President of the Republic of South Sudan, Taban Deng Gai, made assurances that the South Sudanese government has consented to the provisions of Security Council resolution 2304, which authorises an expanded peacekeeping force to bolster civilian protection efforts.
Deng Gai said the implementation of the resolution “is being discussed by and with UNMISS, Transition Government of National Unity, and the region.”
The South Sudanese government’s position, he said, “is that we have to engage more with UN on the details pertaining to the implementation of this resolution” in order to “avoid derailing national healing and reconciliation.”
The First Vice-President said “external intervention often affects negatively internal reconciliation” but insisted that “the Republic of South Sudan will cooperate with UNMISS, the regional bodies, IGAD, EAC, AU, Troika, EU and all our friends in our journey towards recovery from the tragedy that befell us.”
Deng Gai made promises to “bring peace, justice and rebuild strong and credible institutions” to the country.
Speaking to reporter after a high level meeting on South Sudan, UN peacekeeping chief Hervé Ladsous, said “we are in contact with them about the regional protection force. We are trying to elucidate a number of points that were raised by somewhat contradictory – maybe – statements from Juba, but we are watching this very closely, and you may be sure that the Security Council is indeed watching very, very closely because they expect, and I think it was said so, that the government of South Sudan does uphold the commitments it made in that joint communiqué. When you agree to something, you have to live to your promises.”
Core regional and international partners of the South Sudan peace process met to exchange views on how best to advance the political process and create the required political conditions for the successful implementation of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) mandate.
Participants urged the Transitional Government of National Unity to cooperate fully and without further delay with the deployment of the UNMISS Regional Protection Force (RPF), as a key operational enabler to this process, and agreed that continued impediments to UNMISS freedom of movement are not acceptable and must end.
