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STORY: UN / BAN KI-MOON
TRT: 2.29
SOURCE: UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 29 MAY 2013, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
29 MAY 2013, NEW YORK CITY
2. Pan right, the Secretary-General walks up to the stakeout position
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
3. Close up, reporter’s notepad
29 MAY 2013, NEW YORK CITY
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“It is a framework of hope. The agreement gives the people of eastern DRC their best chance in many years for peace, human rights and economic development. It is also a foundation for stability and progress for the entire Great Lakes region.”
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
5. Close up, reporter’s notepad
29 MAY 2013, NEW YORK CITY
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“The region has enormous potential for those with the vision and courage to invest, governments and private investors alike. On energy alone, geothermal, methane and hydro resources mean the DRC and the Great Lakes region could be a powerhouse. There is no reason the DRC cannot follow the development path of countries like Mozambique, which emerged from bitter civil war to achieve peace and economic growth.”
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7. Close up, reporter’s notepad
29 MAY 2013, NEW YORK CITY
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“While active discussions are going on, there are still many elements which we have to clear. We have yet to find out, agree, mutually agreeable and convenient date for a meeting and also we have to see how the opposition groups are discussing their unity issues. We expect that the opposition group will come in a coherent and unified manner, as single representations.”
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9. Close up, reporter’s notepad
29 MAY 2013, NEW YORK CITY
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“There is no shortage of arms in both sides. Just providing arms to either side will not help this process. There is no such military solution in this case. I think only a political process can resolve this issue in a sustainable way.”
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11. Close up, cameras
29 MAY 2013, NEW YORK CITY
12. Zoom out, the Secretary-General walks away from the stakeout position
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today (29 May) called on Governments and private investors alike to be courageous and help Africa’s Great Lakes region leave behind its strife-torn past and a craft a new narrative based on peace, security and long-term development.
The United Nations chief made that call as he spoke to reporters after briefing the Security Council on his week-long visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Rwanda and Uganda with World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, and Special Envoy for the Great Lakes Mary Robinson.
The visit to the region, which also included stops in Mozambique and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, was to support the Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework for the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Region.
Ban said the agreement was “a framework of hope” as it gives the people of the eastern DRC “their best chance in many years for peace, human rights and economic development.”
He said it was also “a foundation for stability and progress for the entire Great Lakes region.”
The UN-brokered accord, signed in February by 11 African leaders, aims to end the cycles of conflict and crisis in the eastern DRC – where, in the most recent hostilities centred around the area of Goma, rebels from the 23 March Movement (M23) have clashed repeatedly with the DRC national armed forces (FARDC) – and to build peace in the wider region.
Ban told reporters that he and Dr. Kim had visited the Heal Africa hospital in Goma to meet women and girls who had been brutally raped by armed groups, including Congolese armed forces.
Yet, he said, a peace deal must deliver a peace dividend – health, education, jobs, opportunity, and noted that Kim had announced a new $1 billion dollar World Bank initiative to support social safety nets, cross-border trade, energy and essential infrastructure.
He said the region has “enormous potential for those with the vision and courage to invest, Governments and private investors alike,” noting that in the energy sphere alone, geothermal, methane and hydro resources meant the DRC and the wider Great Lakes could be a “powerhouse.”
Ban said there is no reason why the DRC cannot follow the development path of countries such as Mozambique, which had emerged from a bitter civil war to achieve peace and economic growth.
Turning to Syria, he said “active discussions are going on” to determine a “mutually agreeable and convenient date” to convene peace talks in Geneva that would bring together representatives from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and the Syrian opposition.
The Secretary-General said the opposition is expected to come to the meeting “in a coherent and unified manner” as a single representation.
Commenting on the recent lifting by the European Union (EU) of an arms embargo on the Syrian opposition, he said there was no shortage of arms in Syria on either sides and “just providing arms to either side will not help this process.”
