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ANTALYA / LDC OPENER
STORY: ANTALYA / LDC OPENING
TRT: 02:33
SOURCE: UNIFEED-UNTV
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / TURKISH / NATS
DATELINE: 27 MAY 2016, ANTALYA, TURKEY
1. Wide shot, exterior Antalya
2. Tilt down, Turkish and United Nations flags and conference venue entrance
3. Wide shot, UNDP’s Helen Clark arriving and greeting Turkish Foreign Minister Cavusoglu and USG Acharya
4. Zoom in, USG Acharya, UNDP’s Clark and Foreign Minister Cavusogly photo-op
5. Wide shot, family photo
6. Wide shot, Conference room
7. Wide shot, dais
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Helen Clark, Administrator of the UN Development Programme (UNDP):
“He calls for the revitalization of global partnership for development so that donor countries would meet the agreed commitment to allocate at least 0.20 per cent of their Gross National Income for Official Development Assistance (ODA) to support LDCs.”
9. Wide shot, dais
10.SOUNDBITE (Turkish) Mevlut Cavusoglu, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Turkey:
“The declaration that we shall accept at the end of this meeting will constitute an important document. If we work together we can create an enriched world. Otherwise, we will lose. It is not only the LDC which will lose, we will all lose.”
11. Pan left, dais
12. Wide shot, press conference podium
13. Med shot, presser
14. SOUNDBITE (Turkish) Mevlut Cavusoglu, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Turkey:
“In order for LDCs to break the cycle of poverty, they need to focus on technology. I think we need to take concrete steps to help them accumulate more information regarding technology.”
15. Med shot, Turkish Foreign and UNDP’s Clark at podium
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Helen Clark, Administrator of the UN Development Programme:
“It takes landlocked developing countries twice as long to import and export their goods as it does for those who are not landlocked. These are very great constraints in the way realizing their development potential.”
17. Close up, reporters
18. SOUNDDBITE (English) Gyan Chandra Acharya, Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, United Nations:
“There’s a long way to go, conflicts are affecting almost one fourth of the LDCs. Even those who are not affected by conflicts, they are also not making much of a progress. The commodity prices are affecting. Overall, reduction in the support mechanism around the world is also affecting their prospect.”
19. Close up, reporters
20. Wide shot, dais presser ending
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for the revitalization of global partnership for development “so that donor countries would meet the agreed commitment to allocate at least 0.20 percent” of their assistance to support the poorest countries.
In a message read today (27 May) by the head of the UN Development Programme (UNDP) Helen Clark at the opening of the Least Developed Countries (LDC) Conference in Antalya, Turkey, Ban stressed that even if those commitments are fully met, the Official Development Assistance (ODA) will not be enough.
High-level officials from around the world have gathered in Antalya, Turkey, today to assess the progress of the world’s Least Developed Countries and their path to sustainable development.
The Least Developed Countries represent the poorest and weakest segment of the international community. They comprise more than 880 million people (about 12 per cent of world population), but account for less than 2 percent of world GDP and about 1 percent of global trade in goods.
Also speaking at the opening, Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs Mevlut Cavusoglu said the declaration that “we shall accept at the end of this meeting will constitute an important document”, adding “if we work together we can create an enriched world. Otherwise, we will lose. It is not only the LDC which will lose, we will all lose.”
The meeting, hosted by Turkey, included high-level representatives and over two thousand stakeholders who have come together from governments, parliaments, international and regional organizations, civil society, private sector, foundations, think tanks and the media.
Later in the day, in a joint press conference, Mevlut Cavusogly, Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs, told reporters “in order for LDCs to break the cycle of poverty, they need to focus on technology. I think we need to take concrete steps to help them accumulate more information regarding technology.”
Also speaking to the media, UNDP’s Helen Clark pointed out the particular case of the landlocked developing countries saying it takes those countries “twice as long to import and export their goods as it does for those who are not landlocked. These are very great constraints in the way realizing their development potential.”
Gyan Chandra Acharya, UN’s Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, told reporters there has been progress, but “there’s a long way to go, conflicts are affecting almost one fourth of the LDCs. Even those who are not affected by conflicts, they are also not making much of a progress. The commodity prices are affecting. Overall, reduction in the support mechanism around the world is also affecting their prospect.”
This conference –official known as the Midterm Review of the Istanbul Programme of Action- takes place immediately after the World Humanitarian Summit (WHS) in Istanbul, which focused global attention on humanitarian crises, many of which disproportionately impact people in the Least Developed Countries.
In Antalya, the international community will look for solutions to minimize or eliminate these crises through economic stability, peace and security and long-term sustainable development.
The category of LDCs was officially established in 1971 by the UN General Assembly with a view to attracting special international support for the most vulnerable and disadvantaged members of the UN family.
The current list of LDCs includes 48 countries -the newest member being South Sudan-; 34 in Africa, 13 in Asia and the Pacific and 1 in Latin America. In 1970's when the category was created, there were 25.
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