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SOURCE: UNIFEED-UNTV
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 18 APRIL 2016, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, United Nations Headquarters
18 APRIL 2016, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, dais
3. Med shot, journalist and camera woman
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Mogens Lykketoft, President of the General Assembly:
“We cannot achieve the goals without private financing. We need partnerships, we need exchange of technology, and recently with the publication of the so-called Panama papers we saw an example of world-wide tax-evasion. And a world without tax revenues cannot mobilize the domestic resources we need, both in poor and rich countries, in order to implement the 17 SDGs.”
5. Med shot, journalists
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Mogens Lykketoft, President of the General Assembly:
“The Panama papers are important and useful to get out in the global public because they will speed-up action against global tax evasion. You have to have the figures in front of you. What we saw in the humanitarian report that came out in January in Dubai, the Secretary-General and I was present also in the presentation, was that we need an extra at least 15 billion dollars for the short term humanitarian relief, which is also a part of ever-growing towards sustainable development. But, is that a lot of money? Not compared to military expenditure, and not compared to so much else; not compared with what we used to mobilize, to reconstruct a middle sized bank during the financial crisis. It’s not a lot of money.”
7. Wide shot, journalists
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Mogens Lykketoft, President of the General Assembly:
“If there is a critical mass on member countries supporting one candidate over the spring and the summer; if that happens I think that it will be very unlikely that the Security Council will come out with quite a different name. If there is a lot of candidates and no clear favourite, well, yes, the Security Council will probably have a key role alone as it used to be. But it is up to what, how, member states will actually r react to this process. There is for the first time a real possibility of the general membership having a real influence.”
9. Wide shot, end of presser
Ahead of the High-level Thematic Debate on achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) General Assembly President Mogens Lykketoft today (18 Apr) condemned world-wide tax-evasion, as revealed by the Panama papers, and said “a world without tax revenues cannot mobilize the domestic resources we need, both in poor and rich countries, in order to implement the 17 SDGs.”
The Panama papers, he said, “are important and useful to get out in the global public because they will speed-up action against global tax evasion.”
Lykketoft gave an example of the 15 billion dollars needed for the short term humanitarian relief. He asked “is that a lot of money? Not compared to military expenditure, and not compared to so much else; not compared with what we used to mobilize, to reconstruct a middle sized bank during the financial crisis. It’s not a lot of money.”
Speaking of the new process being implemented for the selection of a new General-Assembly, he said “if there is a critical mass on member countries supporting one candidate over the spring and the summer; if that happens I think that it will be very unlikely that the Security Council will come out with quite a different name.”
If, on the other hand, there is no clear favourite, then the Security Council “will probably have a key role alone as it used to be.”
He said “there is for the first time a real possibility of the general membership having a real influence.”
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