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Former South African president and chairman of the African Union (AU) panel on Darfur Thabo Mbeki tells the Security Council that a positive outcome for Darfur will have to include, "the necessary balance among the various objectives of peace, justice and reconciliation." UNTV / FILE

Duration:02:44Date:21 December 2009

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STORY: UN / SUDAN WRAP
SOURCE: UNTV
TRT: 2.44
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/ FRENCH/ NATS

DATELINE: 21 DECEMBER 2009, NEW YORK CITY/ FILE

SHOTLIST:

FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, exterior UN building

21 DECEMBER 2009, NEW YORK CITY

2. Pan left, Security Council 
3. Med shot, delegates
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“The panel members have insisted on seeing Sudan in its totality. They have clearly articulated the links between the crisis in Darfur and broader efforts to implement the Comprehensive Peace Agreement. Their insights come at a critical moment. In little more than 3 months, elections are scheduled to take place. In just over a year, the two referenda are scheduled, which will determine the future shape of Sudan.”
5. Med shot, delegates
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“Beyond our co-management of UNAMID, we must make every effort to ensure that the activities of the United Nations in Sudan and the work of the African Union’s High Level Implementation Panel are mutually supportive. It will be the Sudanese people who solve Sudan’s problems.  But working together, the United Nations and the African Union can provide them with critical assistance on their difficult journey towards lasting peace and prosperity.” 
7. Med shot, delegates
8. SOUNDBITE (French) Jean Ping, Chairperson of the Commission of the African Union:
“It is of the highest importance to stress the conclusion the group reached regarding the need to include the settlement of the crisis in Darfur in the more global context of settling the crisis that has affected Sudan since its independence, especially when certain questions go back to the colonial period. It is a question of the fundamental inequality that characterizes the relationship of the centre and the periphery of Sudan; inequalities which partly explain the different rebellions that have taken place ad continue to take place in Sudan.”
9. Med shot, delegates
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Thabo Mbeki, Chairman of the African Union High Level Implementation Panel (AUHIP) on Darfur:
 “We are convinced that the positive outcome we all seek with regard to Darfur will have to take the form of an integrated package that achieves the necessary balance among the various objectives of peace, of justice and reconciliation. And we are convinced, Mr. President, that any attempt to emphasize the importance of any of these three objectives at the expense of the others will not bring about the just and stable peace we all desire for the people of Darfur and which Darfurians themselves seek.”
11. Zoom out, Security Council
12. Various shots, Mbeki and Ping meeting with the Secretary-General

STORYLINE:

Welcoming the report of the African Union High-level Panel on Darfur, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called today (21 December) for the continuation of efforts to encourage the Government of the Sudan and rebel movements to make concessions and embrace the consensus being built by United Nations-African Union Chief Mediator Djibril Bassolé.

The Secretary-General told the Security Council that the report comes at “a critical moment” as elections are scheduled to take place in three months and two referenda “which will determine the future shape of Sudan” will take place within a year.

Ban described the Panel’s report as a revealing assessment that looked at the Sudan in its totality, articulating the links between the crisis in Darfur and efforts to implement the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) which ended the civil war between the North and the South.

He stressed that “it will be the Sudanese people who solve Sudan’s problems” but added that the United Nations and the African Union “working together” can provide “critical assistance on their difficult journey towards lasting peace and prosperity.”

Briefing the Council, Gabonese diplomat Jean Ping on behalf of the African Union said that Darfur occupied a special place among efforts deployed by the United Nations and the African Union to maintain peace on the continent because it was the site of the first joint operation of the two organizations. In the Sudan, as in other places of crisis in Africa, the future would increasingly depend on joint action with regional organizations, particularly the African Union.

Ping stressed “the need to include the settlement of the crisis in Darfur in the more global context of settling the crisis that has affected Sudan since its independence”, noting that “certain questions go back to the colonial period”, including the “fundamental inequality” between the centre and the periphery of Sudan, which he said “partly explain the different rebellions that have taken place and continue to take place in Sudan.”

Former South African President and Chairman of the African Union High Level Implementation Panel on Darfur, Thabo Mbeki, told the Council that a “positive outcome” for Darfur will have to take the form of an “integrated package” and include “”the necessary balance among the various objectives of peace justice and reconciliation”. He added that “any attempt to emphasize the importance of any of these three objectives at the expense of the others will not bring about the just and stable peace we all desire for the people of Darfur and which Darfurians themselves seek.”

During the past six months, the High-level Panel, interacted with all Sudanese and international stakeholders, spending more than 40 days in Darfur, visiting Government-controlled areas and also those controlled by the armed opposition.

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