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STORY: UN / SOUTH SUDAN
TRT: 02:44
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTION: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 24 JANUARY 2018, NEW YORK CITY
RECENT – NEW YORK CITY
1. Exterior, United Nations Headquarters
24 JANUARY 2018, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, United Nations:
“The South Sudanese parties must realize that the international community and the region will not continue to tolerate Agreements being signed, only to be violated in total impunity urge your Council to speak out very clearly against these violations, and to take the decisive actions necessary to impose real consequences for the violators.”
4. Med shot, delegates
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, United Nations:
“I call on President Kiir to put to an end to this impunity. South Sudanese women and girls cannot continue to be victimized and brutalized with no justice served.”
6. Med shot, delegates
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, United Nations:
“I call on the Transitional Government of National Unity to work towards compliance with President Kiir's directive of unfettered humanitarian access, and call on all other parties to allow humanitarians to carry out their life-saving tasks across the country.”
8. Wide shot, Security Council
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Festus Mogae, Chairperson of the Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission:
“I condemn these acts of violence and call upon all the signatories to exercise the Cessation of Hostilities Agreement, to disseminate the terms of the Agreement to their supported commanders, and ensure immediate and consistent compliance.”
10. Med shot, delegates
11. SOUNDBITE (English) UrsuJa Mueller, Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator:
“I am also deeply disturbed and concerned by the continued high rates of sexual violence. In 2018, humanitarian partners estimate that 1.8 million women and girls are at risk of gender-based violence. In response to such staggering figures, partners are aiming to scale up support services to reach nearly 400,000 more vulnerable people than last year.”
12. Wide shot, Security Council
13. SOUNDBITE (English) UrsuJa Mueller, Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator:
“This challenging operating environment is restricting the ongoing dry season pre- positioning of supplies and overall programme delivery. Health, nutrition, food security and the provision of other life-saving assistance and support are regularly interrupted and cutting off hundreds of thousands of people from assistance for extended period of time.”
14. Wide shot, Security Council
15. SOUNDBITE (English) UrsuJa Mueller, Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator:
“I call upon the Council members to help mobilize timely investment in the 2018 Humanitarian Response Plan, to ensure life-saving assistance reaches those most in need. To use their influence to ensure that the parties to conflict comply with all their obligations under International Humanitarian Law.”
16. Wide shot, Security Council
The United Nations Peacekeeping chief today (24 Jan) said that the international community will not tolerate the violation of the Cessation of Hostilities in South Sudan, urging the Security Council to “speak out very clearly against the violations” and take “decisive actions” towards the violators.
Speaking to Security Council today (24 Jan), Jean-Pierre Lacroix, the United Nations (UN) Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations call on President Kiir to” put to an end to this impunity.”
He added “South Sudanese women and girls cannot continue to be victimized and brutalized with no justice served.”
Expressing his concern on the humanitarian situation in the country, Lacroix called on the Transitional Government of National Unity to “work towards compliance with President Kiir's directive of unfettered humanitarian access, and call on all other parties to allow humanitarians to carry out their life-saving tasks across the country.”
Festus Mogae, the Chairperson of the Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission condemned the recent acts of violence in the country and called upon “all the signatories to exercise the Cessation of Hostilities Agreement, to disseminate the terms of the Agreement to their supported commanders, and ensure immediate and consistent compliance.”
UrsuJa Mueller, Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator told the Council that she is “deeply disturbed and concerned by the continued high rates of sexual violence.”
She said “in 2018, humanitarian partners estimate that 1.8 million women and girls are at risk of gender-based violence. In response to such staggering figures, partners are aiming to scale up support services to reach nearly 400,000 more vulnerable people than last year.”
On the humanitarian front, Mueller said “this challenging operating environment is restricting the ongoing dry season pre- positioning of supplies and overall programme delivery. Health, nutrition, food security and the provision of other life-saving assistance and support are regularly interrupted and cutting off hundreds of thousands of people from assistance for extended period of time.”
Mueller called upon the Council members to help “mobilize timely investment in the 2018 Humanitarian Response Plan, to ensure life-saving assistance reaches those most in need. To use their influence to ensure that the parties to conflict comply with all their obligations under International Humanitarian Law.”
