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STORY: UN / RIEK MACHAR
TRT: 3:41
SOURCE: UNTV / UNMIS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 13 JULY 2011, UNITED NATIONS, NEW YORK / RECENT
RECENT - UNITED NATIONS, NEW YORK
1. Wide shot, exterior UN headquarters
UNTV - 13 JULY 2011, UNITED NATIONS, NEW YORK
2. Various shots, South Sudan Vice President Riek Machar meeting UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Riek Machar, Vice President, South Sudan:
“When the euphoria goes away the people would want services, development. Now to meet those expectations is now the concern. Where do we get the money to uplift South Sudan from the lowest in indexes of development and at least bring it to equate the north?
UNMIS - 9 JULY 2011, JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN
4. Various shots, Independence Day celebrations in South Sudan
UNTV - 13 JULY 2011, UNITED NATIONS, NEW YORK
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Riek Machar, Vice President, South Sudan:
“Since we have the resources whether its oil, minerals, water, arable land, wildlife tourism. By the way, we have a greater potential then Kenya in tourism in wildlife. If we can enhance all this and inject capital into it we can make South Sudan an economic top of Africa, a financial centre for Africa.”
UNMIS - 9 JULY 2011, ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA
6. Various shots, Ethiopian troops leaving Ethiopia for Abyei
UNTV - 13 JULY 2011, UNITED NATIONS, NEW YORK
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Riek Machar, Vice President, South Sudan:
“The joint integrated forces from both forces failed to provide the necessary security. The component of the UN forces at that time also failed. We think a new composition of a brigade from the Ethiopian troops will bring about security there. So we will find a solution to Abyei.”
UNMIS - JULY 2011, ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA
8. Various shots, President Salva Kiir meeting President Omar al-Bashir
UNTV - 13 JULY 2011, UNITED NATIONS, NEW YORK
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Riek Machar, Vice President, South Sudan:
“My President has offered to work with his colleague President Bashir for a resolution of the current conflict in Southern Kordofan and in totality the two areas, and Darfur. I think Khartoum should make use of that will. We want to cooperate because we want to create two viable States. We want the borders to be an area where there is economic activity. One third of the Sudanese population, in the North and South, live in the belt, the common border. This is the time we should use this euphoria to resolve the conflicts in Southern Kordofan, the general situation in these two areas and also Darfur.”
UNTV - 14 JULY 2011, UNITED NATIONS, NEW YORK
10. Various shots, raising of the South Sudan flag at the UN
In an exclusive interview with UNifeed on the eve of South Sudan’s admission into the United Nations (UN), Vice President Riek Machar said both his country and northern Sudan “should use this euphoria to resolve the conflicts” in Abyei, Southern Kordofan, the Blue Nile States and Darfur.
Speaking after his meeting with the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon yesterday (13 July), Salva Kiir said that in an effort to move forward, his government is looking into enhancing the country’s resources by injecting capital into it.
“We can make South Sudan an economic top of Africa, a financial centre for Africa,” he added.
South Sudan declared independence from the rest of Sudan on 9 July as a result of the January 2011 referendum held under the terms of the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) that ended the decades-long civil war between the North and the South.
Residents of the disputed region of Abyei were also meant to vote in a separate referendum in January, to decide on whether to be a part of the north or the south, but difference over eligibility saw the referendum postponed, causing tensions and deadly clashes.
Last month both leaders of the north and south agreed under the umbrella of the African Union High Level Panel to demilitarize the region, following clashes that saw the northern army take full control of the disputed area in May.
Meanwhile, efforts are also under way to expedite the complete deployment of the UN Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA), with plans for initial deployment of 1,643 soldiers before 20 July.
Machar said that the deployment of the Ethiopian troops “will bring about security” and “we will find a solution to Abyei.”
Earlier today (14 July) the General Assembly voted to admit South Sudan as the 193rd member of the UN, welcoming the newly independent country to the community of nations. Following the vote, Machar together with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and General Assembly President Joseph Deiss witnessed the raising of the new country’s flag at UN headquarters.
