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DATELINE: 12, 14 DECEMBER 2016, NEW YORK CITY
RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations Headquarters
14 DECEMBER 2016, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon walks up to microphone
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“It has been an extraordinary honour to serve this great organisation, the United Nations, as the eighth Secretary-General. I have been exposed to indescribable suffering, which has left me shocked, and sometimes despairing and heartbroken. But I have also seen the best of humanity, courage, resilience and compassion and creativity and global solidarity.”
4. Wide shot, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Yoo Soon-taek unveil Ban portrait
5. Zoom out portrait
6. Wide shot, Security Council
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Román Oyarzun Marchesi, Permanent Representative of Spain to the United Nations:
“Today, we pay tribute to the perseverance, devotion, and flexibility which you have shown in the performance of your duties, as well as to your unrelenting determination to serve ‘We the peoples’ above any other consideration, as you committed to do when you took the oath of office ten years ago.”
8. Wide shot, Security Council
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“This Council holds the key to peace and progress for some of the world’s most vulnerable people. It has been a privilege and an honour serving you. I thank you for supporting me and our indispensable Organization.”
10. Pan left, applause
12 DECEMBER 2016, NEW YORK CITY
11. Wide shot, Ban walks up to General Assembly podium
12. Wide shot, audience including Yoo Soon-taek and Secretary-General designate Antonio Guterres
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“I have maintained a focus on people’s dignity and rights, the pillars of our common humanity. I have sought to stand up for the vulnerable and those left behind today. And I have tried to be sure that we are doing all we can so that future generations can live in peace. Even as I prepare to leave, my heart will stay as it has since I was a child – right here with the United Nations.”
14. Zoom out, applause
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today (14 Dec) took part in several events commemorating the end of his tenure.
At a concert by the New York Philharmonic in his honour, Ban said it had been “an extraordinary honour” to serve the United Nations.
He said he had been “exposed to indescribable suffering” which had left him “shocked, and sometimes despairing and heartbroken,” but had also seen “the best of humanity, courage, resilience and compassion and creativity and global solidarity.”
Earlier today, together with Madame Ban, the Secretary-General unveiled a new portrait of him, painted by the Korean artist Lee Won-Hee, to hang alongside those of his predecessors in the Secretariat lobby.
He also took part in a special meeting of the Security Council, which adopted a resolution paying tribute to him.
Council President Román Oyarzun Marchesi, of Spain, paid tribute “to the perseverance, devotion, and flexibility” displayed by Ban in the performance of his duties.
In his own remarks, Ban said the Council “holds the key to peace and progress for some of the world’s most vulnerable people.”
He also emphasized that the Council is strongest when it is united, and noted that when unity is lacking, the consequences can be catastrophic, as in the case of South Sudan and Syria.
On Monday (12 Dec) Ban was honoured by the General Assembly. In his remarks to that organ he said “I have maintained a focus on people’s dignity and rights, the pillars of our common humanity. I have sought to stand up for the vulnerable and those left behind today. And I have tried to be sure that we are doing all we can so that future generations can live in peace. Even as I prepare to leave, my heart will stay as it has since I was a child – right here with the United Nations.”
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