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STORY: UN / HAITI
TRT: 2.34
SOURCE: UNTV / UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / FRENCH / SPANISH / NATS
DATELINE: 27, 28 AUGUST 2013, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
28 AUGUST 2013, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. Med shot, delegates
4. SOUNDBITE (French) Sandra Honoré, United Nations Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH):
“Haiti is at a crucial turning point. Indeed, the progress made in security and stabilization, as well as the efforts of the Martelly/ Lamothe Government for socio-economic development, could be jeopardised by the instability resulting from the polarisation related to the electoral impasse.”
5. Med shot, delegates
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Sandra Honoré, United Nations Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH):
“Delays in the submission of the draft electoral law by the executive to Parliament have fuelled speculation among legislators that the executive was intentionally delaying the process to ensure that Parliament becomes non-functional. This perception brought a grouping of main opposition parties to repeatedly and publicly call on President Martelly to uphold the constitutional requirement of timely elections or else resign.”
7. Med shot, delegates
8. SOUNDBITE (French) Denis Regis, Permanent Representative of Haiti to the United Nations:
“Voices are being raised in the country to call into question the presence of MINUSTAH. It would be desirable that all possible scenarios for disengagement be considered in order to avoid a repetition of history.”
9. Wide shot, Security Council
27 AUGUST 2013, NEW YORK CITY
10. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Sandra Honoré, United Nations Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH):
“MINUSTAH works very closely with the Government in the areas of water and sanitation, with the support of the National Water Administration and the military component of MINUSTAH provides strong engineering support in that sense in order to alleviate the day to day of the people of Haiti.”
FILE – UNICEF - 25 JANUARY 2013, PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI
11. Wide shot, UNICEF medical tent
12. Close up, IV drip
13. Med shot, row of cots inside tent
14. Close up, boy lying on cot
The Special Representative for the Secretary-General in Haiti, Sandra Honoré, told the Security Council that “Haiti is at a crucial turning point” and that progress in the fields of security and stability, as well as socio-economic development, “could be jeopardised by the instability resulting from the polarisation related to the electoral impasse.”
Honoré said “delays in the submission of the draft electoral law by the executive to Parliament have fuelled speculation among legislators that the executive was intentionally delaying the process to ensure that Parliament becomes non-functional.”
She noted that “this perception brought a grouping of main opposition parties to repeatedly and publicly call on President Martelly to uphold the constitutional requirement of timely elections or else resign.”
Honoré also said that the UN Mission, MINUSTAH, stands ready to proceed with further adjustments to troop strength as may be mandated by the Security Council in October.
Ambassador Denis Regis of Haiti, in his address to the Council, said “voices are being raised in the country to call into question the presence of MINUSTAH” and “it would be desirable that all possible scenarios for disengagement be considered in order to avoid a repetition of history.”
In an interview with UN Television, the Special Representative yesterday said that the United Nations continues to support the Government of Haiti with the various short and medium term priorities that need to be addressed to eliminate the spread of cholera in the country.
Honoré said “MINUSTAH works very closely with the Government in the areas of water and sanitation” while the military component of MINUSTAH “provides strong engineering support in that sense in order to alleviate the day to day of the people of Haiti.”
The cholera epidemic in Haiti has caused the death of 8,713 persons and infected over 660,000. The budget for the National Plan for the Elimination of Cholera amounts to $443.7 million for the period 2013-2015, with only 47 percent pledged.
