UN / LYKKETOFT SG SELECTION

General Assembly President Mogens Lykketoft said the process in selecting a new Secretary-General this year was “game changing.” UNIFEED-UNTV

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:12
• Production Date: 1 September 2016
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: MOGENS LYKKETOFT
• Corporate Name: GENERAL ASSEMBLY
• Subject Topical: SECRETARY-GENERAL; UNITED NATIONS MANAGEMENT
• MAMS Id: 1700520
• Parent Id: 1700520
• Alternate Title: unifeed160901b

Description

STORY: UN / LYKKETOFT SG SELECTION
TRT: 2:12
SOURCE: UNIFEED-UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 01 SEPTEMBER 2016, NEW YORK CITY / FILE

Shotlist

RECENT - NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, UNHQ exterior

01 SEPTEMBER 2016, NEW YORK CITY

2. SOUNDBITE (English) Mogens Lykketoft, President of the General Assembly:
“Finally, after discussing it for 20 years, we did it. We took the lead in the General Assembly to get a good conversation with all the candidates.”

FILE - 12 JULY 2016, NEW YORK CITY

3. Wide shot, SG candidates at General Assembly Global Townhall
4. Med shot, Helen Clark, Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme
5. Med shot, Danilo Turk, Former President of Slovenia
6. Med shot, Christiana Figueres
7. Med shot, Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO
8. Med shot, António Guterres, Former High Commissioner for Refugees
9. Med shot, Susana Malcorra, Foreign Minister of Argentina
10. Med shot, Vuk Jeremić, Former President of the United Nations General Assembly
11. Med shot, Natalia Gherman, Former Acting Prime Minister of Moldova

01 SEPTEMBER 2016, NEW YORK CITY

12. SOUNDBITE (English) Mogens Lykketoft, President of the General Assembly:
“This has been a game changing process. Of course we don’t know the outcome, but we know that the degree of transparency for the general membership to take part has come to stay; it will not be turned backwards again.”

12 JULY 2016, NEW YORK CITY

13. Wide shot, General Assembly
14. Wide shot, candidates on stage
15. Wide shot, audience

01 SEPTEMBER 2016, NEW YORK CITY

16. SOUNDBITE (English) Mogens Lykketoft, President of the General Assembly:
“I hope that this process of selecting the next Secretary-General will end up giving us a very strong personality, an independent personality, a moral authority, a great diplomat and politician that can actually place the United Nations in its foreseen role as the organization freeing new generations from the scourge of war.”

25 JULY 2016, NEW YORK CITY

17. Wide shot, General Assembly hall
18. Med shot, Lykketoft
19. Wide shot, General Assembly hall

Storyline

General Assembly President Mogens Lykketoft said the process in selecting a new Secretary-General this year was “game changing.”

For the first time in United Nations (UN) history, candidates for the position of next Secretary-General took part in a globally televised and webcast event in the General Assembly Hall and took questions from diplomats and the public at large. Lykketoft said there was uniform support for this process among UN Member States.

Lykketoft said the selection has been a “delicate process” which was run in close coordination with the Security Council. He said the new format has changed the balance somewhat between the Security Council and the General Assembly. He said the “degree of transparency for the general membership to take part has come to stay; it will not be turned backwards again.”

The President of the General Assembly hoped that the selection process would “give us a very strong personality, an independent personality, a moral authority, a great diplomat and politician that can actually place the United Nations in its foreseen role as the organization freeing new generations from the scourge of war.”