UN BAN KI-MOON FAREWELL WRAP

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon bid farewell to UN staff, urging staff members to “never give up, to keep dreaming, to keep believing, and to keep working hard until we achieve progress.” UNIFEED

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:41
• Production Date: 30 December 2016
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: BAN KI-MOON
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS
• Subject Topical: SECRETARY-GENERAL
• MAMS Id: 1807274
• Parent Id: 1807274
• Alternate Title: unifeed161230a

Description

STORY: UN / BAN KI-MOON FAREWELL WRAP
TRT: 01:41
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 30 DECEMBER 2016, NEW YORK CITY

Shotlist

RECENT, NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations Headquarters

30 DECEMBER 2016, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon shaking hands with staff members
3. Wide shot, Ban walks up to podium
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Never give up to keep dreaming, to keep believing, and to keep working hard until we achieve progress.”
5. Wide shot, Ban at the podium
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“During the last ten years I’ve been working as voice of voiceless people, defender of the defenceless people. But you have to continue to do that.”
7. Wide shot, Ban at the podium
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“I feel a bit like Cinderella. Tomorrow at midnight, everything changes.”
9. Wide shot, Ban waving to applauding staff
10. Various shots, Ban going down escalator
11. Med shot, Ban and Yoo Soon-taek get into vehicle
12. Wide shot, vehicle drives away

Storyline

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, today (14 Dec) bid farewell to UN staff urging staff members to “never give up” and to “keep dreaming, to keep believing, and to keep working hard until we achieve progress.”

Ban said that during the past ten years he has worked “as voice of voiceless people, defender of the defenceless people.” He told staff members to “continue to do that.”

The departing Secretary-General quipped that he felt like Cinderella, as “tomorrow at midnight,” when his tenure ends, “everything changes.”

decade of service at the helm of the world body, during which his priorities have been to mobilize world leaders around a set of new global challenges, from climate change and economic upheaval to pandemics and increasing pressures involving food, energy and water. In addition, he has sought to be a bridge-builder, to give voice to the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people, and to strengthen the Organization itself.

During his decade of service at the helm of the world body, his priorities have been to mobilize world leaders around a set of new global challenges, from climate change and economic upheaval to pandemics and increasing pressures involving food, energy and water. In addition, he has sought to be a bridge-builder, to give voice to the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people, and to strengthen the Organization itself.