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GA / SG CANDIDATE CLARK
STORY: GA / SG CANDIDATE CLARK
TRT: 02:30
SOURCE: UNIFEED-UNTV
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /NATS
DATELINE: 14 APRIL 2016, NEW YORK CITY
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1. Wide shot, exterior of the UN Headquarters
14 APRIL 2016, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, delegates
3. Wide shot, Clark on the podium
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Helen Clark, Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme and candidate for UN Secretary-General:
”I see the incoming Secretary-General needing to update the administration and make a full use of new technologies in doing so. I think the UN can become more effective in delivering to member states. It can be a better place to work. It must be transparent and frank about what it can and cannot do. It must work closely with member states to see that resources given to it are prioritized around what biggest difference can be made.”
5. Cutaway, New Zealand delegate
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Helen Clark, Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme and candidate for UN Secretary-General:
“I think transparency should be a guiding principle for the way in which the SG relates to the Security Council, the General Assembly and to Member States. I have led the UNDP to its current ranking to the most transparent development organization in the world and I want to bring that approach to the UN too.”
7. Cutaway, delegates
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Helen Clark, Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme and candidate for UN Secretary-General:
“All my life I fought for gender equality and for women’s empowerment. And s a Secretary-General I will certainly be insuring that the UN prioritizes a full and equal participation of women in decision making in economies and societies and here, in this building.”
9. Cutaway, delegates
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Helen Clark, Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme and candidate for UN Secretary-General:
“Secretary-General can’t be a general because there’s not an army. It is about soft power. It is about a power to convene. It is about a power that mobilizes the opinion. It is about advocacy. It is about upholding the Charter, the treaties, the conventions, the instruments. And definitely, on your last point Ambassador, upholding the rights of the marginalized and the voiceless and being a voice for them.”
11. Cutaway, delegates
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Helen Clark, Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme and candidate for UN Secretary-General:
“I have come for the outside of everything I’ve done. From rural background to an urban settings. As a woman, breaking into men’s world, which is politics in my country. As a woman becoming a first elected Prime Minister. First woman appointed as an Administrator of the UNDP. I don’t think in all honesty anyone can see me as an establishment candidate because I come from out of the box and I will a bit out of the box and looking how to – in my work – create opportunities for others.”
13. Wide shot, delegates applauding
Presenting her candidacy for the post of the United Nations (UN) Secretary-General, the Administrator of the UN Development Programme (UNDP) Helen Clark, said today “I have led the UNDP to its current ranking to the most transparent development organization in the world and I want to bring that approach to the UN too.”
Helen Clark, UNDP Administrator and a former Prime Minister of New Zealand is one of nine candidates making a bid in front of the Members of the UN General Assembly for the job of running the United Nations for the next five years.
Clark said the next Secretary-General needs “to update the administration and make a full use of new technologies in doing so.”
She also said she thinks “the UN can become more effective in delivering to member states. It can be a better place to work. It must be transparent and frank about what it can and cannot do.”
In an effort to make the process of electing the next top UN official more transparent, the UN General Assembly holds informal dialogues with candidates for the next United Nations Secretary-General, providing an opportunity to all Members States as well as civil society for substantive and open engagement with the candidates.
Helen Clark, who has been the UNDP Administrator for the last seven years, said she has “led the UNDP to its current ranking to the most transparent development organization in the world and I want to bring that approach to the UN too. All parts of the organization need to embrace open modern management practices in governance and I do believe investing in our staff is our greatest asset.”
She also promised that if elected, she will ensure “that the UN prioritizes a full and equal participation of women in decision making in economies and societies and here, in this building.”
New Zealand diplomate said that “Secretary-General can’t be a general because there’s not an army.”
Clark added in ”it is about soft power. It is about a power to convene. It is about a power that mobilizes the opinion. It is about advocacy. It is about upholding the Charter, the treaties, the conventions, the instruments.”
As part of the informal dialogues, each candidate has a televised and webcast two-hour timeslot, starting with a short oral presentation. Representatives from Member States will then ask questions, followed by the President of the General Assembly, who will ask a few of the more than 1,000 questions submitted by the general public on social media under the hashtag #UNSGcandidates.
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