UN / BAN 2016

As images of starving people in the besieged town of Madaya in Syria have made global headlines in recent days, Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon said the deliberate starvation of people in Syria constitutes a war crime. UNIFEED-UNTV

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:03:04
• Production Date: 14 January 2016
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: BAN KI-MOON
• Corporate Name: GENERAL ASSEMBLY
• Subject Topical: CLIMATE CHANGE; DISPLACED PERSONS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS; TERRORISM
• Geographic Subject: SYRIA
• MAMS Id: 1547243
• Parent Id: 1547243
• Alternate Title: unifeed160114a

Description

STORY: UN / BAN 2016
TRT: 03:04
SOURCE: UNIFEED - UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 14 JANUARY 2016, NEW YORK CITY / FILE

Shotlist

FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters

14 JANUARY 2016, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, the Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon walks up to the stakeout position
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“In 2014, the UN and partners were able to deliver food to about 5 per cent of people in besieged areas. Today, we are reaching less than 1 percent. This is utterly unconscionable. Along with food, the people we have encountered want answers. Who cares about our lives? Where is the international community? Who will speak for us? Let me be clear: the use of starvation as a weapon of war is a war crime.”
4. Wide shot, Ban walks up to General Assembly podium
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“We begin 2016 needing to get our priorities right. The United Nations continues to deliver results. But we need to do more, and we need to do better. This is a moment heavy with responsibility: Year one of the new 15-year agenda, and year 10 of my 10-year mandate. One year may seem to be very short in UN time. But I believe we can make it dynamic and productive.”
6. Wide shot, GA
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“This must be a year in which landmark decisions on sustainable development that were made in meeting rooms and conference halls gain solid footing on the ground. If 2015 was a year of global sustainable development action, 2016 must be a year of national SDG traction.”
8. Wide shot, GA
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“Tomorrow I will present to you a Plan of Action to Prevent Violent Extremism. Our challenge is to defeat Da-esh, Boko Haram, al-Shabaab, Al Qaeda and other such groups. Without defeating ourselves through counter-productive approaches that fuel the extremism we are trying to extinguish. Well-calibrated, security-based counter-terrorism measures remain essential. But human rights must be at the forefront of our response.”
10. Various shots, audience applause

Storyline

As images of starving people in the besieged town of Madaya in Syria have made global headlines in recent days, Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon today (14 Jan) said the deliberate starvation of people in Syria is constitutes a war crime.

Speaking to reporters after addressing the General Assembly on the direction of the United Nations’ work in 2016, Ban said the UN and partners “are reaching less than 1 percent” of people in besieged areas in Syria. He said this was “utterly unconscionable.”

In his speech to the GA, the Secretary-General said the global community begins the year needing to get its “priorities right,” while underlining that more and better work needs to be done.

Ban told delegates during an annual informal briefing to the General Assembly that “this is a moment heavy with responsibility: Year one of the new 15-year agenda, and year 10 of my 10-year mandate. One year may seem very short in UN time. But I believe we can make it dynamic and productive.”

The UN chief began by declaring that 2016 must be a year in which landmark decisions on sustainable development “gain solid footing on the ground.”

After congratulating Member States for adopting the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, a set of 17 goals and 169 targets to wipe out poverty, fight inequality and tackle climate change over the next 15 years, Ban said “if 2015 was a year of global sustainable development action, 2016 must be a year of national SDG traction.”

Turning to terrorism, Ban announced that tomorrow, he will present a Plan of Action to Prevent Violent Extremism. “Our challenge is to defeat Da-esh, Boko Haram, al-Shabaab, Al Qaeda and other such groups –without defeating ourselves through counter-productive approaches that fuel the extremism we are trying to extinguish.”