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STORY: UN / SOUTH SUDAN
TRT: 03:30
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 15 DECEMBER 2021, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations Headquarters
15 DECEMBER 2021, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. Med shot, SRSG Nicholas Haysom at the Security Council dais
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Nicholas Haysom, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for South Sudan and Head, United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS):
“The steps taken so far in the implementation of the Revitalized Peace Agreement are welcome, however, they are not sufficient if the peace process is to be sustained. The failure of the parties to reach an agreement on command ratios have promoted a fracturing of the SPLM/A-IO. Since my last briefing, mediation efforts that began in Khartoum—seeking to bridge the divide on Chapter II issues, and to heal the SPLM/A-IO split with its Kitgwang faction—have been undermined by the political crisis in Sudan.”
5. Med shot, Council President
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Nicholas Haysom, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for South Sudan and Head, United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS):
“The President has announced that the elections will be held in 2023. While I note that members of presidency are yet to coalesce around an electoral timetable, the next year presents a dramatic challenge if South Sudan is to graduate through its transition. It will require both technical and political preparation including an agreement on the constitution as well as on the rules governing the election.”
7. Med shot, delegates
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Nicholas Haysom, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for South Sudan and Head, United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS):
“We expect the domestic political temperature to rise as elections draw closer. I am, therefore, deeply concerned at the restrictions on civic space, including in response to calls for non-violent demonstrations by the People’s Coalition for Civil Action. I urge the government to promote the fundamental human rights of all South Sudanese, including freedom of expression, to create a platform for a democratic dialogue in a free and fair electoral process.”
9. Med shot, delegates
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Agok Anyar Madut, Charge d’Affaires, Permanent Mission to the United Nations, South Sudan:
“We call on the Security Council and the international community at large to stop sitting on the fence, cherry-picking while you remain actively seized of the matter. Financial weight of the Revitalized Agreement is too heavy to be left for the parties to fund alone. Let’s put the money where our mouths are.”
11. Med shot, delegates
12. Wide shot, Council
13. Zoom in, Haysom at the Security Council stakeout
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Nicholas Haysom, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for South Sudan and Head, United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS):
“Among its political challenges, is the fact that it has to – in a relatively short period of time – accomplish quite significant political benchmarks, including a new constitution, preparation for free and fair elections, establishment of basic government structures, and restoration of basic delivery of goods and services. So, this really require South Sudanese to work together, and to implement some of the areas that have been neglected up to now.”
15. Pan right, Haysom walks away
The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for South Sudan Nicholas Haysom today (15 Dec) welcomed steps taken so far in implementing South Sudan’s Revitalized Peace Agreement, however, he said, “they are not sufficient if the peace process is to be sustained."
Haysom, who was presenting Secretary-General António Guterres’ report on South Sudan to the Security Council, said “the failure of the parties to reach an agreement on command ratios have promoted a fracturing” of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-in-Opposition (SPLM-IO), a political party and rebel group that split from the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) in 2013.
The UN official highlighted than South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir’s announcement that elections will be held in 2023. He noted that members of the presidency “are yet to coalesce around an electoral timetable,” and said, “the next year presents a dramatic challenge if South Sudan is to graduate through its transition.”
He said, this will require “both technical and political preparation including an agreement on the constitution as well as on the rules governing the election.”
Haysom, who is also the Head of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), said, “we expect the domestic political temperature to rise as elections draw closer,” expressing concern “at the restrictions on civic space, including in response to calls for non-violent demonstrations by the People’s Coalition for Civil Action.”
He urged the government “to promote the fundamental human rights of all South Sudanese, including freedom of expression, to create a platform for a democratic dialogue in a free and fair electoral process.”
In his address to the Council, South Sudan’s Representative Agok Anyar Madut called on Council Members “to stop sitting on the fence, cherry-picking while you remain actively seized of the matter.”
He said, “financial weight of the Revitalized Agreement is too heavy to be left for the parties to fund alone. Let’s put the money where our mouths are.”
Outside the Council, Haysom spoke with reporters and said that among South Sudan’s political challenges, is that it must “in a relatively short period of time – accomplish quite significant political benchmarks, including a new constitution, preparation for free and fair elections, establishment of basic government structures, and restoration of basic delivery of goods and services.”
He said, “this really require South Sudanese to work together, and to implement some of the areas that have been neglected up to now.”
The revitalized peace agreement, signed on 12 September 2018 by President Kiir and Riek Machar, on behalf of the SPLM-IO as well as by other opposition parties.
