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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / ARABIC / NATS
DATELINE: 19 APRIL 2024, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior, United Nations Headquarters
19 APRIL 2024, NEW YORK CITY
2. Various shots, Security Council
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Rosemary Anne DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, United Nations:
“In short, this is a crisis of epic proportions. It is also wholly manmade.
4. Wide shot, Security Council
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Rosemary Anne DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, United Nations:
“All warring parties must uphold their obligations under International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law and adhere to the Jeddah Declaration of Commitment to Protect the Civilians of Sudan. I reiterate the Secretary-General’s call on all parties to exercise maximum restraint and avoid further bloodshed.”
6. Wide shot, Security Council
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Rosemary Anne DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, United Nations:
“But if the parties have been able to sustain their confrontation, it is in no small part thanks to the material support they receive from outside the Sudan. These external actors continue to flout the sanctions regime imposed by the Council to support a political settlement, thereby fueling the conflict. This is illegal, it is immoral and it must stop.”
8. Various shots, Security Council
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Edem Wosornu, Director of Operations and Advocacy, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA):
“One year on, the outlook for the people of Sudan is bleak. Conflict continues to rage and the risk of famine is here. I find it particularly distressing to see what has happened in Sudan, given where the country was before this conflict started. A safe refuge for more than 1 million refugees. A regional hub for medical facilities and universities. So much of this is now gone.”
10. Wide shot, Security Council
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Edem Wosornu, Director of Operations and Advocacy, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA):
“The violence poses an extreme and immediate danger to the 800,000 civilians who reside in El Fasher. And it risks triggering further violence in other parts of Darfur – where more than 9 million people are in dire need of humanitarian assistance. We reiterate our demand that the parties to the conflict respect their obligations under international humanitarian law. Sexual violence and other inhumane treatment is strictly prohibited. The parties must take constant care to spare civilians and civilian objects.”
12. Wide shot, Security Council
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Edem Wosornu, Director of Operations and Advocacy, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA):
“We have a very narrow window to respond. This is now. Within the coming six weeks, we need to preposition lifesaving supplies before the rainy season starts in June. We need to get seeds into the hands of farmers before the planting season in June, and cash into the pockets of displaced people before they fall even deeper into hunger. Every day that passes puts more lives at risk. As we warned in the Council last month, food insecurity in Sudan has reached record levels, with the risk of famine now guiding the response. Let me reiterate that 18 million people are facing acute hunger, a number that is set to surge as the lean season fast approaches.”
14. Wide shot, Security Council
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Edem Wosornu, Director of Operations and Advocacy, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA):
“We need a fundamental change in our support to the people of Sudan. The people of Sudan cannot wait another month, week or even day – for their suffering to stop. As outlined, we need three things now: (1) scaled-up action by the parties to protect civilians and facilitate humanitarian access; (2) the quick disbursement of funds for the humanitarian response; and (3) more international engagement on Sudan to silence the guns.”
16. Wide shot, Security Council
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Mohamed Ibn Chambas, High Representative for the Silencing the Guns Initiative of the African Union Commission:
“It is particularly worrying that the war has spread from Khartoum to other parts of the country, including the main agricultural production center Al Jazeera State, with all its implications of food production and famine.”
18. Wide shot, Security Council
19. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Al-Harith Idriss al-Harith Mohamed, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Sudan:
“We call for the following to not instrumentalize the conflict in Sudan, because this does damage to the conflict resolution process. It undermines Sudan being able to own this process. We must and need to support the initiative of silencing the guns.”
20. Wide shot, Security Council
Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, Rosemary Anne DiCarlo, reiterated the Secretary-General’s call on all parties in Sudan to “exercise maximum restraint and avoid further bloodshed.”
DiCarlo today (19 Apr) briefed the Council on the situation in Sudan.
“In short, this is a crisis of epic proportions. It is also wholly manmade,” she said.
The Under-Secretary-General highlighted, “All warring parties must uphold their obligations under International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law and adhere to the Jeddah Declaration of Commitment to Protect the Civilians of Sudan.”
DiCarlo also said, “But if the parties have been able to sustain their confrontation, it is in no small part thanks to the material support they receive from outside the Sudan. These external actors continue to flout the sanctions regime imposed by the Council to support a political settlement, thereby fueling the conflict.”
She reiterated, “This is illegal, it is immoral and it must stop.”
UN senior humanitarian official Edem Wosornu also briefed the Council.
She said, “One year on, the outlook for the people of Sudan is bleak. Conflict continues to rage and the risk of famine is here.”
“I find it particularly distressing to see what has happened in Sudan, given where the country was before this conflict started,” Wosornu said, adding that “a safe refuge for more than 1 million refugees. A regional hub for medical facilities and universities. So much of this is now gone.”
The OCHA official also said, “The violence poses an extreme and immediate danger to the 800,000 civilians who reside in El Fasher. And it risks triggering further violence in other parts of Darfur – where more than 9 million people are in dire need of humanitarian assistance.”
Wosornu reiterated the demand that “the parties to the conflict respect their obligations under international humanitarian law. Sexual violence and other inhumane treatment is strictly prohibited. The parties must take constant care to spare civilians and civilian objects.”
She highlighted, “We have a very narrow window to respond. This is now. Within the coming six weeks, we need to preposition lifesaving supplies before the rainy season starts in June. We need to get seeds into the hands of farmers before the planting season in June, and cash into the pockets of displaced people before they fall even deeper into hunger.”
“Every day that passes puts more lives at risk,” the UN humanitarian warned.
She added that “food insecurity in Sudan has reached record levels, with the risk of famine now guiding the response.”
Wosornu reiterated that 18 million people are facing acute hunger, “a number that is set to surge as the lean season fast approaches.”
“We need a fundamental change in our support to the people of Sudan,” she said, adding that “the people of Sudan cannot wait another month, week or even day – for their suffering to stop.”
Wosornu outlined three urgent needs: (1) scaled-up action by the parties to protect civilians and facilitate humanitarian access; (2) the quick disbursement of funds for the humanitarian response; and (3) more international engagement on Sudan to silence the guns.”
Mohamed Ibn Chambas, High Representative for the Silencing the Guns Initiative of the African Union Commission, spoke to the Council via video link.
He said, “It is particularly worrying that the war has spread from Khartoum to other parts of the country, including the main agricultural production center Al Jazeera State, with all its implications of food production and famine.”
Sudanese Ambassador Al-Harith Idriss al-Harith Mohamed said, “We call for the following to not instrumentalize the conflict in Sudan, because this does damage to the conflict resolution process. It undermines Sudan being able to own this process. We must and need to support the initiative of silencing the guns.”
