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DATELINE: 19 MARCH 2024, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
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1. Wide shot, UN Headquarters
19 MARCH 2024, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. Wide shot, Council dais
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Joonkook Hwang, Chair, Security Council Committee Established Pursuant to Resolution 1591 (2005) Concerning the Sudan:
“In both the final and quarterly reports, the panel updated the Committee on increasing violence against civilians, including widespread cases of sexual and gender based violence in the conflict across Darfur, particularly in the West Darfur. The panel reported on violations of the arms embargo, violations of international humanitarian and human rights law, ethnically based recruitment by the warring parties, complex financing schemes established by armed groups active in Darfur.”
5. Wide shot, Council
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Joonkook Hwang, Chair, Security Council Committee Established Pursuant to Resolution 1591 (2005) Concerning the Sudan:
“The committee reminded the parties that those who commit violations of international humanitarian law and other atrocities may be subject to targeted sanctions and measures in accordance with the paragraph 3C of resolution 1591. The Committee also reminded the parties and the Member States who facilitate the transfers of arms and the military material to Darfur of their obligations to comply with the arms embargo measures.”
7. Wide shot, Council
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert A. Wood, Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Alternate Representative for Special Political Affairs, United States:
“We remain concerned by reporting of blatant violations of the UN arms embargo, particularly the scale and frequency of the transit of weapons into Darfur from eastern Chad, Libya and the Central African Republic. We are committed to sharing information on such transfers with the CAR. and Sudan panels and urge other member states to facilitate UN sanctions panels carrying out their mandate. We call on all member states and warring parties to fully comply with the arms embargo measures. External parties that provide material support to the warring parties in violation of the arms embargo are complicit in the loss of thousands of lives and the devastation of countless more.”
9. Wide shot, Council
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Ammar Mohammed Mahmoud, Counsellor, Mission of the Republic of the Sudan to the United Nations:
“Putting an end to the sanctions would allow the Sudanese government to better protect its civilians and would allow the Sudanese Armed Forces to deal effectively in facing and ending the violations perpetrated by the Rapid Support militias and the atrocities that they have been perpetrating against civilians, children and women and their systematic destruction of infrastructure, public facilities, civilian assets and private property.”
11. Wide shot, end of Council session
The Chair of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1591 on Sudan, today (19 Mar) reminded the warring parties “that those who commit violations of international humanitarian law and other atrocities may be subject to targeted sanctions” and other measures.
Presenting the findings of the Committee, Korean Ambassador Joonkook Hwang said, “in both the final and quarterly reports, the panel updated the Committee on increasing violence against civilians, including widespread cases of sexual and gender based violence in the conflict across Darfur, particularly in the West Darfur. The panel reported on violations of the arms embargo, violations of international humanitarian and human rights law, ethnically based recruitment by the warring parties, complex financing schemes established by armed groups active in Darfur.”
He also reminded the parties “and the Member States who facilitate the transfers of arms and the military material to Darfur of their obligations to comply with the arms embargo measures.”
In his briefing to the Council, United States Ambassador Robert A. Wood expressed concern at reports of “blatant violations of the UN arms embargo, particularly the scale and frequency of the transit of weapons into Darfur from eastern Chad, Libya and the Central African Republic.”
Wood called on member states and warring parties “to fully comply with the arms embargo measures” and said, “external parties that provide material support to the warring parties in violation of the arms embargo are complicit in the loss of thousands of lives and the devastation of countless more.”
For his part, Sudanese representative Ammar Mohammed Mahmoud said, “putting an end to the sanctions would allow the Sudanese government to better protect its civilians and would allow the Sudanese Armed Forces to deal effectively in facing and ending the violations perpetrated by the Rapid Support militias and the atrocities that they have been perpetrating against civilians, children and women and their systematic destruction of infrastructure, public facilities, civilian assets and private property.”
