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STORY: UN / DR CONGO
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SOURCE: UNTV
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE 9 MARCH 2009, NEW YORK CITY
RECENT 2009, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
9 MARCH 2009, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. Med shot, delegates
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Alan Doss, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the Democratic Republic of the Congo:
“A significant success of the ‘accelerated integration’ is MONUC’s separation of almost one thousand one hundred children associated with armed groups since the beginning of the process. In all my meetings with Congolese authorities and representatives of armed groups, I have urged them to release immediately all remaining children within their ranks.”
5. Med shot, delegates
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Alan Doss, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the Democratic Republic of the Congo:
“The continuing joint operations against the armed groups may lead to further attacks on civilians and new displacements. The Council must bear in mind that it is impossible to end the FDLR’s control over large parts of both Kivus without any humanitarian consequences. Protecting civilians has been integrated in the planning of the joint operations with the FARDC, and we will do our utmost to minimize negative effects on civilians.”
7. Med shot, delegates
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Alan Doss, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the Democratic Republic of the Congo:
“The DRC requires rapid international assistance, but the Government must take more decisive action to tackle corruption and improve the management of public resources in order to sustain donor support and financial aid.”
9. Wide shot, Security Council
10. Wide shot, Press conference
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Alan Doss, Special representative for the Democratic Republic of the Congo, United Nations:
“This is a little bit the problem of UN peacekeeping. You know we have no standing army, we don’t have a minister of defense who can sort of say, ‘hey off you go’. We have to, you know, cap in hand and knock at a lot of doors, and sometimes they open and they open a little slowly. So yes I have expressed my concern about that. I hope we can accelerate the process.”
The United Nations Special Representative for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) briefed the United Nations (U.N.) Security Council today on the situation in that country.
Alan Doss told Council members that a significant success of the ‘accelerated integration’ of Congolese armed groups was MONUC’s separation of almost one thousand one hundred children associated with armed groups since the process began. Doss noted that in all his meetings with Congolese authorities and representatives of armed groups he had have urged them to release “immediately all remaining children within their ranks.”
Doss informed the Council that the continuing joint operations against the Congolese armed groups “may lead to further attacks on civilians and new displacements”. He stressed that it was impossible to end the FDLR’s (Democratic Front for the Liberation of Rwanda) control over large parts of both Kivus without any “humanitarian consequences”.
Alan Doss said that the DRC had suffered a revenue decline of seventy percent and that the country required “rapid international assistance”, but he added that the Congolese Government also needed to take more “decisive action” to tackle corruption and improve the management of public resources in order to sustain donor support and financial aid.
Following his briefing to the Security Council Alan Doss spoke to journalists. Regarding the fact that none of the three thousand new peacekeepers and military hardware promised by the Security Council last year had arrived in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Doss said that that was “a little bit the problem of UN peacekeeping”; he added that he had expressed his concern to the Security Council and that he hoped the process would accelerate.
