President Taylor refuses to leave until peacekeepers arrive

Описание: (17 Jul 2003)
1. Various of evangelical preachers and President Taylor praying for peace in the Samuel K Doe Stadium
2. Wide shot stadium with people and soldiers
3. Close up soldiers praying for peace with their hands in the air
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Charles Taylor, Liberian President:
"If I was to leave this country before the peacekeepers arrive in the city, I see disaster, I see trouble, I see murder, mayhem. I see rape, I see utter destruction."
5. Crowd, press and former congressmen
6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Charles Taylor, Liberian President: (cutaway during soundbite)
"It is important for the international community to act and to act now to bring peacekeepers to Liberia and bring them now."
7. Police car and crowd singing
8. Crowd listening
9. Military band listening
10. Set up shot of Benjamin Yeaten
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Benjamin Yeaten, four-star general and frontline military director:
"We want to ask the United States of America, the United States of America, to hurry up because it's like everybody is waiting for the Americans to be on the ground before they can take the peace, because America is a friend in high favour so!"
12. Zoom in to militia on the streets of Monrovia

STORYLINE :

Liberian President Charles Taylor refused on Wednesday to leave the country before an international peacekeeping force arrives.

He was speaking at a gathering of evangelical preachers from the Washington-based Global Peace Initiative (GPI) who were in Monrovia as part of a Christian crusade to spread peace in the world.

Taylor also stressed that it was important that the peacekeepers were sent as soon as possible.

His comments came as a US-backed peace proposal called for creating an interim government next month that would exclude Liberia's President Charles Taylor and the two rebel leaders seeking to oust him,

US President George W. Bush, who is considering a limited deployment of American troops to wartorn Liberia, said such a move would depend on Taylor stepping down and leaving the country.

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