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STORY: UN / LE ROY
TRT: 2.36
SOURCE: UNTV / MINUSTAH / MONUC / UNMIS / ONUCI
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/ NATS
DATELINE: 2 AUGUST 2011, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
2 AUGUST 2011, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Le Roy sitting down for interview
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Alain Le Roy, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations:
“The new Force Commander had resigned, confronted to the huge challenges of the task. So I came there myself, I remember saying to the people, instructed our peacekeepers to shoot if ever anyone would come to Goma with a bad intention. It was a very strong message and the crisis at the end was overcome. And I must say the situation in the Congo is so much better today than it was three years ago.”
FILE - MONUC - 2 NOVEMBER 2009, NTOTO & NYABIONDO IN MASISI TERRITORY, NORTH KIVU PROVINCE, DR CONGO
4. Med shot, villagers watching
5. Wide shot, Le Roy walking from helicopter
6. Med shot, Indian soldiers with guns on guard
7. Med shot, Le Roy and other delegates walking through banana plantation
2 AUGUST 2011, NEW YORK CITY
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Alain Le Roy, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations:
“In Abyei situation, which is a flashpoint between the north and the south, is still not solved. We have an interim solution with Ethiopian troops, and that is very important and very good that they are coming to stay in the area, but we don’t have, so far, any particular solution for Abyei. There are many things still to achieve in the Sudan.”
FILE – UNMIS - 7 OCTOBER 2008, ABYEI, JUBA, SUDAN
9. Wide shot, UN convoy driving through Abyei town
10. Wide shot, drive through Abyei market area
11. Wide shot, Alain Le Roy addressing Joint Integrated Police units
12. Wide shot, Joint Police unit singing
2 AUGUST 2011, NEW YORK CITY
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Alain Le Roy, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations:
“More than hundred of our people, our colleagues, died in that earthquake and together with probably 200,000 Haitians. So it was obviously a tragedy for everyone, for Haiti first, but for the UN also. But at the same time, I must say, I saw after the earthquake the UN at its best.”
FILE - MINUSTAH - 12 JANUARY 2011, PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI
14. Med shot, two peacekeepers unveiling memorial statue
15. Wide shot, relative of victims putting a small red heart on top of the first name of a victim, engraved in the statue, Le Roy in the background
2 AUGUST 2011, NEW YORK CITY
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Alain Le Roy, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations:
“I was very pleased to hear Mrs. Navi Pillay, the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mr. Moreno-Ocampo, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, both saying, with this action the UN, and of course with the support of Licorne, helped avoid a tragedy like in Rwanda.”
FILE - ONUCI - 27-29 DECEMBER 2010, ABIDJAN, CÔTE D’IVOIRE
17. Various shots, Le Roy touring ONUCI facilities and safety devices
Outgoing United Nations (UN) Under-Secretary-General of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, Alain Le Roy, recounted the organization’s challenges and accomplishments over the last three years in different hotspots around the world.
Le Roy, who took up his duties formally on 30 June 2008, said that the first crisis he had to face was when the National Congress for the Defence of the People (CNDP) rebels, led by General Laurent Nkunda seized a major military camp near Goma in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to stage attacks on the city.
The French diplomat recalled that after the UN Mission Force Commander had resigned, “confronted to the huge challenges of the task,” he instructed peacekeepers “to shoot if ever anyone would come to Goma with a bad intention.”
He said that this “was a very strong message and the crisis at the end was overcome” and added that “the situation in the Congo is so much better today than it was three years ago.”
Le Roy said he considers the completion of the referendum process in Sudan and subsequent declaration of independence by South Sudan a success.
Nevertheless, he pointed to the situation in South Kordofan and Abyei, “which is a flashpoint between the north and the south” as outstanding issues.
He welcomed the “interim solution” of the deployment of Ethiopian troops, but stressed that “we don’t have, so far, any particular solution for Abyei” and “there are many things still to achieve in the Sudan.”
One of the most difficult issues during his tenure was perhaps the January 2010 Haiti earthquake where “more than hundred of our people, our colleagues, died in that earthquake and together with probably 200,000 Haitians.”
He said that although “it was obviously a tragedy for everyone, for Haiti first, but for the UN also,” after the earthquake, the help and support provided by peacekeepers, was “the UN at its best.”
Le Roy mentioned the resolution of the crisis in Côte d’Ivoire as another success, saying that he was “very pleased” to hear High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay and Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Luis Moreno-Ocampo say that the UN with the support of the Licorne French forces, “helped avoid a tragedy like in Rwanda.”
The West African nation is emerging from a crisis that ended in mid-April, when former president Laurent Gbagbo finally surrendered, ending months of violence in the wake of his refusal to step down after he lost last November’s UN-certified run-off election to President Alassane Ouattara, who was sworn in as President in May.
Le Roy, who brought an extensive experience in public administration, management and international affairs to the job, was born in February 1953. He is married and has one son.
