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STORY: UN / CAR UPDATE
TRT: 01:33
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 24 DECEMBER 2020, NEW YORK CITY / RECENT
RECENT - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, United Nations Headquarters
24 DECEMBER 2020, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric walks up to podium
3. Wide shot, journalists
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“The Security Council has approved on 23 December the Secretary-General’s proposal for the temporary redeployment, for a two-month period, of two infantry companies and two military utility helicopters from the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) to assist the UN Mission in the Central African Republic. This is to reinforce the operational capabilities of the Peacekeeping Mission in the CAR during this electoral context. And on the security front, the peacekeepers are continuing to actively engage in mitigating growing threats from armed groups throughout the country. The Mission is also continuing to provide support to the preparations of the presidential and legislative elections. The Peacekeeping Mission also reported that the deployment of sensitive elections materials to all prefectures was completed yesterday, while voter card distribution continued all over the country. The Mission reported that 85 percent of voter card distribution centres were open and had high turnout, despite the security challenges. And yesterday, the Peacekeeping Mission also contributed $500,000 to the fund managed by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to further help financing the elections.”
5. Wide shot, Dujarric walks away from the podium
Days before Sunday’s election, the Security Council has approved Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ proposal “for the temporary redeployment, for a two-month period, of two infantry companies and two military utility helicopters from the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) to assist the UN Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA), a UN spokesperson said today (24 Dec).
The Spokesman for the Secretary-General, Stéphane Dujarric, said, “this is to reinforce the operational capabilities of the Peacekeeping Mission in the CAR during this electoral context. And on the security front, the peacekeepers are continuing to actively engage in mitigating growing threats from armed groups throughout the country.”
The spokesperson noted that the Mission is continuing to provide support to the preparations of the presidential and legislative elections, and deployment of sensitive elections materials to all prefectures was completed yesterday, while voter card distribution is ongoing.
MINUSCA has reported that “85 percent of voter card distribution centres were open and had high turnout, despite the security challenges,” Dujarric said.
