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STORY: UN / COTE D’IVOIRE
TRT: 2.45
SOURCE; UNTV
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 18 JULY 2013, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES
RECENT 2013, UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS, NEW YORK
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations Headquarters
18 JULY 2013, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES
2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. Cutaway, delegates
4. SOUNDBITE (French) Hervé Ladsous, Under Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, United Nations:
“However, cote D’Ivoire will need the support of the broader international community to ensure that durable solutions are found foe all former combatants. There is a real risk based upon lessons learned from the crisis, that in the absence of such solutions for these elements, they could becomes a threat to human rights stability in Cote d’Ivoire and the sub-region, as they are more likely to pick up arms again should the opportunity arise.”
5. Cutaway, delegates
6. SOUNDBITE (French) Hervé Ladsous, Under Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, United Nations:
“The human rights situation remains a concern, including incidences of sexual-and-gender-based violence. Efforts to combat impunity must be expedited by ensuring that those responsible for serious violations of human rights and international humanitarian law are brought to justice irrespective of their political affiliation, while respecting the rights of those in detention.”
7. Cutaway, delegates
8. SOUNDBITE (French) Hervé Ladsous, Under Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, United Nations:
“Political divisions run deep and networks affiliated with the former regime aiming to destabilise the Government continue to exist. The presence of mercenaries, former combatants and other armed elements; the uncontrolled circulation of weapons; criminal activities; and, violence between communities remain of concern. Other threats to stability include piracy in the Gulf of guinea, drug trafficking and organized crime, while potential terrorist threats cannot be ruled out.”
9. Cutaway, delegates
10. SOUNDBITE (French) Hervé Ladsous, Under Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, United Nations:
“UNOCI’s presence in Cote D’Ivoire remains essential, particularly with respect to its core priorities of protecting civilians, disarmament, demobilization and reintegration of former combatants, and security sector reform.”
11. Cutaway, President of the Security Council
12. Wide shot, Security Council meeting ends
Briefing the Security Council today (18 July) in New York on the situation in Cote D’Ivoire, the Head of United Nations Peacekeeping Operations warned that while the disarmament, demobilizations and reintegration of some 65,000 former combatants remained a key priority, there was a “real risk” that those elements, “could becomes a threat to human rights stability in Cote d’Ivoire and the sub-region, as they are more likely to pick up arms again should the opportunity arise.”
Under-Secretary-General Hervé Ladsous stressed to the Council that Cote D’Ivoire “will need the support of the broader international community to ensure that durable solutions are found foe all former combatants.”
Noting the lack of dialogue with the former ruling party since February and the importance of such dialogue to pave the way for a reconciliation process with an equitable justice accountable for violations of human rights, Ladsous warned that the present human rights situation in the country remained “a concern, including incidences of sexual-and-gender-based violence.”
He said that efforts to combat impunity “must be expedited by ensuring that those responsible for serious violations of human rights and international humanitarian law are brought to justice irrespective of their political affiliation, while respecting the rights of those in detention.”
He continued that the Political divisions between parties “run deep” and, he added that “networks affiliated with the former regime aiming to destabilise the Government continue to exist.”
Adding to the latter, he said that “other threats to stability include piracy in the Gulf of guinea, drug trafficking and organized crime, while potential terrorist threats cannot be ruled out.”
Ladsous told council members that the presence of the UN’s mission UNOCI remained “essential, particularly with respect to its core priorities of protecting civilians, disarmament, demobilization and reintegration of former combatants, and security sector reform.”
