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STORY: UN / SUDAN
TRT: 4:02
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / ARABIC / NATS
DATELINE: 22 MAY 23, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT – NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior, United Nations Headquarters
22 MAY 23, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Volker Perthes, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Sudan / Head of the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS):
“Representatives of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) signed a Declaration of Commitments in Jeddah on 11 May and an agreement on a short-term ceasefire and humanitarian arrangement on 20 May. It is supposed, the agreement on the short-term ceasefire is supposed to enter into force tonight, it shall remain in effect for 7 days, it is renewable, and it should allow civilians to move and humanitarian access to get to the people.”
4. Med shot, Perthes sitting, delegates, Security Council
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Volker Perthes, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Sudan / Head of the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS):
“This is a welcomed development. Those fighting and troop movements have continued even today despite the commitment of both sides not to pursue military advantage before the ceasefire takes efforts.”
6. Pan right, delegates, Security Council
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Volker Perthes, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Sudan / Head of the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS):
“Both parties have been calling on me to condemn the respective other side’s actions. I call on both to end the fighting and to return to dialogue in the interest of Sudan and its people.”
8. Pan right, delegates, Security Council
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Volker Perthes, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Sudan / Head of the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS):
“More than 860 civilians have been killed, including more than 190 children, with another 3,500 civilians injured. Many are missing. Over a million have been displaced: more than 840,000 have sought shelter in safer parts of the country, while another 250,000 or so have crossed Sudanese borders.”
10. Med shot, Perthes sitting, delegates, Security Council
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Volker Perthes, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Sudan / Head of the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS):
“I am grateful to those countries who are receiving refugees and returnees fleeing Sudan. It is vital that borders remain open to those who seek safety.”
12. Pan right, delegates, Security Council
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Volker Perthes, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Sudan / Head of the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS):
“In Khartoum, in Darfur, and elsewhere, the warring parties have fought their war with little regard for the laws and norms of war.”
14. Pan right, delegates, Security Council
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Volker Perthes, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Sudan / Head of the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS):
“The responsibility for the fighting rests with those who are waging it daily: the leadership of the two sides who have chosen to settle their unresolved conflict on the battlefield rather than at the table. It is their decision that is ravaging Sudan. And they can end it.”
16. Pan right, delegates, Security Council
17. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Al-Harith Idriss al-Harith Mohamed, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Sudan:
“For its part, the Government of Sudan will commit to the principles of the Jeddah Declaration with this agreement while respecting international humanitarian law and human rights, and will provide the conditions to provide urgent assistance and access to humanitarian workers without impediments.”
18. Med shot, delegates, Security Council
19. Pan left, Perthes walking to stakeout
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Volker Perthes, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Sudan / Head of the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS):
“A short-term ceasefire is not the goal; it is an instrument to go forward. We will need talks about a permanent cessation of hostilities, and we will need to consider and, of course, support a new political process.”
21. Wide shot, Perthes at stakeout
22. SOUNDBITE (English) Volker Perthes, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Sudan / Head of the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS):
“We have heard from both sides of the conflict for this to happen.”
23. Pan right, Perthes leaving stakeout
The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Sudan, Volker Perthes, said that the short-term ceasefire signed by both sides of the conflict “is supposed to enter into force tonight, it shall remain in effect for 7 days, it is renewable, and it should allow civilians to move and humanitarian access to get to the people.”
The Representatives of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) signed an Agreement on short-term ceasefire and Humanitarian Arrangements in Jeddah, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, on 20 May.
Briefing the Security Council today (22 May), Perthes noted, “Fighting and troop movements have continued even today despite the commitment of both sides not to pursue military advantage before the ceasefire takes efforts.”
Under the Agreement, the parties agreed to facilitate the delivery and distribution of humanitarian assistance, restore essential services, and withdraw forces from hospitals and essential public facilities.
The parties also agreed to facilitate the safe passage of humanitarian actors and commodities, allowing goods to flow unimpeded from ports of entry to populations in need.
The compliance and adherence to the Agreement will be monitored by a Monitoring and Coordination Committee comprised of representatives of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United States of America, which are the facilitators of the Agreement, and representatives of the parties.
Perthes stated, “Both parties have been calling on me to condemn the respective other side’s actions. I call on both to end the fighting and to return to dialogue in the interest of Sudan and its people.”
On the humanitarian front, the head of the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS) reported, “More than 860 civilians have been killed, including more than 190 children, with another 3,500 civilians injured. Many are missing. Over a million have been displaced: more than 840,000 have sought shelter in safer parts of the country, while another 250,000 or so have crossed Sudanese borders.”
He continued, “I am grateful to those countries who are receiving refugees and returnees fleeing Sudan. It is vital that borders remain open to those who seek safety.”
According to Perthes, “In Khartoum, in Darfur, and elsewhere, the warring parties have fought their war with little regard for the laws and norms of war.”
He stressed, “The responsibility for the fighting rests with those who are waging it daily: the leadership of the two sides who have chosen to settle their unresolved conflict on the battlefield rather than at the table. It is their decision that is ravaging Sudan. And they can end it.”
Al-Harith Idriss al-Harith Mohamed, Permanent Representative of Sudan to the United Nations, said that the government of his country “will commit to the principles of the Jeddah Declaration with this agreement, while respecting international humanitarian law and human rights, and will provide the conditions to provide urgent assistance and access to humanitarian workers without impediments.”
Talking to reporters later today, UNITAMS’s chief explained, “A short-term ceasefire is not the goal; it is an instrument to go forward. We will need talks about a permanent cessation of hostilities, and we will need to consider and, of course, support a new political process.”
He added, “We have heard from both sides of the conflict for this to happen.”
