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STORY: DR CONGO/ BAN KI-MOON- JIM YONG KIM
TRT: 1.35
SOURCE: MONUSCO
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 22 MAY 2013, KINSHASA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO
1. Wide shot, Special Envoy for the Great Lakes region Mary Robinson, SRSG Roger Meece and DRC Minister for Foreign Affairs walking to meet the Secretary General's plane
2. Wide shot, Military 'brass' awaiting arrival, with Mary Robinson and DRC Minister of Foreign Affairs
3. Med shot, Ban Ki Moon disembarking plane and being greeted by DRC minister of Foreign Affairs
4. Med shot, Ban Ki-moon & DRC minister of Foreign Affairs walking in VIP Terminal at the Kinshasa Airport
5. Wide shot, convoy leaving airport and heading 'downtown'
6. Wide shot, Ban Ki-moon, World Bank Pres Jim Yong Kim and President of DRC Joseph Kabila all shaking hands in photo-op
7. Med shot, Ban Ki-moon sitting and talking in waiting room of DRC Presidential office
8. Med shot, Ban Ki-moon, Jim Yong Kim and President Joseph Kabila walking to the Presidential office
9. Med shot, Ban Ki-moon, SRSG Meece and Mary Robinson sitting at meeting table talking, waiting for meeting with President kabila
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General, United Nations:
“Ladies and gentleman we are at a very important crucial time. We believe it offers the best hope for peace in a generation, but this agreement must to translate into concrete action the people should feel the tangible results; their peace and security, and their development and better future. The framework for peace must be a framework for action."
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Jim Yong Kim, President, World Bank:
"We have, we believe a historic opportunity to dramatically reduce extreme poverty and raise living standards not only for people in the region but across the continent. Today I'm happy to announce that the World Bank Group will provide more than one billion dollars in additional funding. That’s in addition to the funding that that we provide directly to the countries; additional funding to improve the lives of the people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and other countries in the Great Lakes."
12. Wide shot, Ban Ki-moon and Jim Yong Kim
In the first visit of its kind, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and World Bank President Jim Yong Kim are in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to support a recent peace deal and promote economic development in the long-troubled region.
Talking about the UN-brokered peace agreement, which was signed in February by 11 African leaders and aims to end the cycles of conflict and crisis in the eastern DRC and to build peace in wider region Ban said that “We are at a very important crucial time.”
He added that he believed it offered the best hope for peace in a generation, but he added “this agreement must to translate into concrete action the people should feel the tangible results; their peace and security, and their development and better future. The framework for peace must be a framework for action."
At the same briefing and while noting that he believed this was a historical opportunity to reduce extreme poverty while raising living standards “not only for people in the region but across the continent”, Kim announced a $1 billion in new funding to help countries in the Great Lakes provide better health and education services, generate more cross-border trade, and fund hydroelectricity projects in support of the peace deal.
The funding would be in addition to the funding that the World Bank already provides directly to the countries in the region. Kim also said “additional funding to improve the lives of the people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and other countries in the Great Lakes."
Tomorrow as part of their visit, Ban and Kim will travel to the eastern city of Goma.
Recent days have witnessed renewed clashes between rebels from the 23 March Movement (M23) and the DRC national armed forces in Goma, which was the scene of intense fighting late last year.
In March, the UN deployed an intervention brigade within the existing peacekeeping mission (MONUSCO) to bring added stability and protect civilians in eastern DRC. The brigade is authorized to carry out targeted offensive operations, with or without the Congolese national army, against armed groups that threaten peace in that part of the country.
