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STORY: UN / CHAD-CAR
TRT: 2.28
SOURCE: UNTV / EUFOR
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: FRENCH / ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 23 APRIL 2009 , NEW YORK CITY / FILE
RECENT 2009, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
23 APRIL 2009 , NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council meeting
3. Med shot, delegates
4. SOUNDBITE (French) Edmond Mulet, Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping operations, United Nations:
“In the absence of political reconciliation, particularly in Darfur , the humanitarian situation is particularly difficult. As the Secretary-General indicates in his report, two hundred and fifty thousand Sudanese refugees, one hundred and sixty internally displaced, and seven hundred thousand persons for local population from Chad are dependent on humanitarian assistance.”
5. Med shot, delegates
6. SOUNDBITE (French) Edmond Mulet, Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping operations, United Nations:
“I would like to reiterate, however, that achieving the voluntary return and resettlement of IDP’s, demilitarization of refugees and IDP camps and improvement in the capacity of Chadian authorities to provide security with respect for human rights in eastern Chad – will require broad efforts involving actors.”
7. Med shot, delegates
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Ambassador Martin Palous, Permanent Representative of the Czech Republic , United Nations:
“Although EUFOR’s mandate formally ended, the EU will remain an active player in the region. Approximately 2,000 of the soldiers who participated in the European operation now serve under the MINURCAT banner, which further underlines European support to UN peacekeeping operations.”
9. Wide shot, Security Council
FILE – EUFOR – 15 MARCH 2009, ABECHE, CHAD
10. Various shots, ceremony marking handover from EUFOR to MINURCAT
Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Edmund Mulet said there is an escalation in tensions in both sides of the border between Chad and Sudan .
Briefing members of the Security Council today on the latest report by the Secretary-General on Chad and the Central African Republic , he warned members that in the absence of a political reconciliation, particularly in Darfur , the humanitarian situation was “particularly difficult”.
Citing the report, Mulet said that two hundred and fifty thousand Sudanese refugees, one hundred and sixty internally displaced, and seven hundred thousand Chadians were dependent on humanitarian assistance.
Mulet also reiterated that achieving the voluntary return and resettlement of IDP’s, demilitarization of refugees and IDP camps and the improvement in security with would require “broad efforts involving actors.”
Czech Ambassador Martin Palous, on behalf of the European Union said that although the European Union Forces (EUFOR) mandate had formally ended, the EU would remain an active player in the region.
