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STORY: AFRICA / CLINTON WRAP
TRT: 2.10
SOURCE: MONUC/ UNMIL
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 11 AUGUST 2009, GOMA, DR CONGO/ 13 AUGUST 2009, MONROVIA, LIBERIA
UNMIL - 13 AUGUST 2009, MONROVIA, LIBERIA
1. Med shot, Clinton and Johnson-Sirleaf arriving at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
2. Close up, Clinton and Johnson-Sirleaf
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Hillary Clinton, United States Secretary of State:
“This was a very important trip that both President Obama and I wanted to make early in the administration, to send a very clear message that the Obama administration is committed to developing an even stronger and closer relationship with not just the governments, but especially the peoples of Africa.”
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Hillary Clinton, United States Secretary of State:
“And I think that the people of Liberia should continue to speak out against corruption, to demand changes, not just from the government but from themselves and their society because that is important as well. And so, from the actions that have been taken we see a commitment by President Sirleaf and her government and the legislature which passed the laws. Now they have to be implemented.”
5. Med shot, Clinton and Johnson-Sirleaf posing for photographers
6. Close up, Clinton
7. Med shot, Clinton and Johnson-Sirleaf shaking hands
MONUC - 11 AUGUST 2009, GOMA, DR CONGO
8. Wide shot, UN plane arrives
9. Med shot, Hillary Clinton disembarking
10. Wide shot, walking away from plane
11. Traveling shot, Goma streets
12. Traveling shot, bus arriving
13. Med shot, Hillary Clinton hand shake with President Joseph Kabila
14. Medium shot, walking with officials
15. Medium shot, women dancing
16. Wide shot, refugees
17. Med shot, Hillary Clinton speaking to a man in the camp
18. 22. Med pan shot, Hillary Clinton walking from dais with MONUC military
19. 23. Med shot, Hillary Clinton saluting military formation
20. 27. Wide shot, UN plane leaves
Wrapping up her seven-nation Africa tour, U.S Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton met with Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf in the Liberian capital, Monrovia on Thursday (13 August).
Clinton spoke to reporters about Liberia and US relations and specific topics including corruption and development.
She said that the Obama administration wanted to send a very clear message of its commitment to developing an even stronger and closer relationship with African governments, especially with the people of Africa.”
The Secretary of State stressed that Liberians “should continue to speak out against corruption” and commended the actions that have been taken by President Sirleaf’s government, adding that new anti-corruption laws now “have to be implemented.”
Liberia is recovering from fourteen years of civil war that crippled the nation’s economy and infrastructure.
Earlier in the week, the Secretary of State visited Goma, in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) where she met with the President of the DRC Joseph Kabila.
In Goma, she condemned acts sexual violence committed against women, underscoring the importance of ending impunity for military offenders, as well as cutting off funds to militias operating in the area and resolving the region’s underlying political tensions.
Secretary of State Clinton also and visited the Mugunga Refugee camp and inspected a parade of MONUC peacekeepers.
