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STORY: UN / SIERRA LEONE
TRT: 1.47
SOURCE: UNTV / UNICEF / FAO
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 10 JUNE 2009, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – UNTV – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior, United Nations Headquarters
10 JUNE 2009, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon shaking hands with co-chairs of meeting
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-Moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“The United Nations has played an important role in supporting Sierra Leone's efforts at making, keeping and building peace. We draw a sense of pride from Sierra Leone's achievements. However, despite impressive gains, the situation remains fragile. The outbreak of political violence in March of this year was a wake-up call on challenges that require urgent and continued attention. It also reminded us of the importance of sustained global support.”
FILE – FAO – NOVEMBER 15, 2008, BOMBALI DISTRICT, SIERRA LEONE
4. Wide shot, women in yard
5. Wide shot, woman in yard preparing food with steaming pots on fires
6. Close up, woman's hands snapping fresh peppers
7. Wide shot, boy watering vegetable garden
8. Med shot, woman with lettuce heads in one arm bending to tend to vegetable garden
FILE – FAO – NOVEMBER 14, 2008, KONEYA, KOINADUGU DISTRICT, SIERRA LEONE
9. Various shots, farmers harvesting rice
FILE – FAO – NOVEMBER 14, 2008, KOINADUGU DISTRICT, SIERRA LEONE
10. Wide shot, man with pick working on hole in dirt road, motorcycle riding by
11. Wide shot, playing children crossing dirt road with stop sign in foreground
10 JUNE 2009, NEW YORK CITY
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-Moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“Seven years after the end of the civil war, the people of Sierra Leone expect to see tangible improvements in their lives and in their country's welfare. They want peace, prosperity and a brighter future for their children. In short, they want to see and feel the dividends of peace.”
FILE – UNICEF - 24-26 FEBRUARY 2009, FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE
13. Wide shot, people in street
14. Med shot, woman carrying basket on head
15. Med shot, two children in street
Despite some impressive gains in rebuilding Sierra Leone seven years after the end of its brutal civil war, the situation in the West African nation remains fragile, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today (10 June).
Addressing the United Nations Peacebuilding Commission’s high-level meeting on Sierra Leone, Ban commended the government, opposition leaders and ordinary Sierra Leoneans for “rising above differences” and overcoming the recent outbreak of political violence.
On 2 April, the governing All People’s Congress (APC) and the opposition Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) signed a Joint Communiqué, ending violence that threatened to spiral out of control between the two parties in early March.
But Ban said that the outbreak of violence was a “wake-up call on challenges that require urgent and continued attention”, and a reminder of the importance of sustained global support.
He told the high-level gathering that further progress was needed in addressing the “root causes of conflict”: strengthening democratic institutions and promoting economic and social development.
The Secretary-General pledged the support of the UN and the Peacebuilding Commission for the “Agenda for Change” laid out by Sierra Leone’s President Ernest Bai Koroma, to fight poverty by focusing on priorities such as agriculture and infrastructure.
Ban stressed that the people “want peace, prosperity and a brighter future for their children” in Sierra Leone, whose 11-year civil war ended in 2002. “In short, they want to see and feel the dividends of peace”, he said.
Sierra Leone, along with Burundi, was one of the first countries to receive support from the Peacebuilding Commission, established in 2005 to help post-conflict countries determine the priority areas for rebuilding out of the vast array of challenges they face.
