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STORY: UN / SUDAN ENVOY PRESSER
TRT: 02:22
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 25 JUNE 2026, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior UN Headquarters
25 JUNE 2026, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, press room dais
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Pekka Haavisto, Personal Envoy of the Secretary-General for Sudan:
“We are alarmed of the ongoing hostilities around the city, including frequent drone strikes, and these are already affecting the civilians and affecting too humanitarian aid to the city. And a further escalation of the situation would place thousands of people at risk. Unfortunately, the situation reminds a little bit of the earlier developments in Darfur and around El-Fasher and reminds that there are immediate risks for the civilian population.”
4. Wide shot, press room dais
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Pekka Haavisto, Personal Envoy of the Secretary-General for Sudan:
“The using of the drones as part of the conflict has been increasing and the drone attacks against civilians and civilian infrastructure has been increasing. And again, this is something that we should pay the attention. And of course, the drones are not Sudan made. They come from the international market.”
6. Wide shot, press room dais
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Pekka Haavisto, Personal Envoy of the Secretary-General for Sudan:
“Our hope is that the Quad consisting United States, Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Egypt could advance with the humanitarian truce, which would help a lot the civilian situation on the ground, but also, help a lot our other goals to have a peaceful solution to the conflict. And it could and should start with the humanitarian truce.”
8. Wide shot, press room dais
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Pekka Haavisto, Personal Envoy of the Secretary-General for Sudan:
“It looks like both of the parties, General Hemedti, General Burhan, still think that something can be achieved militarily in this conflict and conflict, unfortunately, goes on as long as somebody thinks that he or she or the group can achieve something through the military means, and this is unfortunately still the situation.”
10. Wide shot, press room dais
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Pekka Haavisto, Personal Envoy of the Secretary-General for Sudan:
“There should be one Sudan. Its border should be respected. Its sovereignty should be respected. This would be a Sudanese owned, Sudanese led process in the end of the day. And what we are trying to do as United Nations and as a quintet, of course, is helping Sudanese to find a path towards that kind of future. And that's our starting point.”
12. Wide shot, end of presser
The Personal Envoy of the Secretary-General for Sudan, Pekka Haavisto, today (25 Jun) expressed alarm about ongoing hostilities around the city of El-Obeid, in North Kordofan State, and warned “a further escalation of the situation would place thousands of people at risk.”
Haavisto told reporters in New York that hostilities, including frequent drone strikes, “are already affecting the civilians and affecting too humanitarian aid to the city.”
He said, “unfortunately, the situation reminds a little bit of the earlier developments in Darfur and around El-Fasher and reminds that there are immediate risks for the civilian population.”
The using of the drones, the Special Envoy said, “has been increasing and the drone attacks against civilians and civilian infrastructure has been increasing,” adding that these drones “are not Sudan made. They come from the international market.”
He expressed hope that the so-called Quad (United States, Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Egypt) “could advance with the humanitarian truce, which would help a lot the civilian situation on the ground, but also, help a lot our other goals to have a peaceful solution to the conflict.”
Haavisto said both the head of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), General Mohamed Hamdan Daglo (Hemedti) and the Commander of the Sudanese Armed Forces, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, “still think that something can be achieved militarily in this conflict.”
To conclude, he said, “there should be one Sudan. Its border should be respected. Its sovereignty should be respected. This would be a Sudanese owned, Sudanese led process in the end of the day. And what we are trying to do as United Nations and as a quintet, of course, is helping Sudanese to find a path towards that kind of future. And that's our starting point.”
