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UN / GUTERRES INTERVIEW
STORY: UN / GUTERRES INTERVIEW
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SOURCE: UNIFEED
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 25 AUGUST 2017, NEW YORK CITY / RECENT
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
25 AUGUST 2017, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Secretary-General António Guterres and interviewer
3. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“We live in a world with global problems – climate change, terrorism, inequality – and there is no way we can solve the problems of today’s world on a country-by-country basis. We see, more and more, that only global solutions can address global problems. And for global solutions to be possible, we need to have mechanisms of governance allowing countries to come together and manage together the problems of our times.”
4. Wide shot, Guterres and interviewer
5. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“The UN must, first of all, be an instrument for a surge in diplomacy for peace and we are doing everything we can, facing all the crises that we have from Mali to South Sudan to Libya to Central African Republic to Syria to Afghanistan to Somalia, to do everything we can to convince those parties to the conflict and those that have leverage, that support the parties to the conflict, we are doing everything we can to convince them that these are wars that nobody is winning; everybody’s losing. And it is absolutely essential that they forget their differences, their contradictions of interests and that they really come together to put an end to these tragic series of crises, violence and conflicts.”
6. Wide shot, Guterres and interviewer
7. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“We need to fight terrorists where they are, but we need to address the root causes of terrorism. That means solving conflicts, and at the same time, build cohesive societies where people can feel they belong, where they don’t feel discriminated [against] and respect human rights to make sure that those terrorist organizations have more and more difficulties in recruiting people.”
8. Wide shot, Guterres and interviewer
9. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“We need to make sure that all countries commit themselves to the Paris Agreement. And wherever countries are not able to do so at the government level, that the societies, the business communities, the cities are able to lead the process in order for us to be able to meet the Paris Agreement, but with an increased ambition because Paris is not enough to be able to contain global warming at the level that is acceptable. At the same time, we need to see that there is a clear link between climate change and development, and the sustainability of development.”
10. Wide shot, Guterres and interviewer
11. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Young people are much more cosmopolitan. They are much less prone to these irrational approaches of nationalism, of xenophobia, racism; they understand diversity is a richness; it’s not a threat. I hope that young people will push their societies, their communities, their governments to understand that they need to have policies of social cohesion, they need to have policies that allow for everyone to feel that his or her identity is respected but, at the same time, that they belong to the community as a whole.”
12. Wide shot, end of interview
Ahead of the 72nd session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA 72), Secretary-General António Guterres called for global solutions that can address global problems.
During a sit-down interview at UN Headquarters, the Secretary-General said “we live in a world with global problems – climate change, terrorism, inequality – and there is no way we can solve the problems of today’s world on a country-by-country basis. We see, more and more, that only global solutions can address global problems. And for global solutions to be possible, we need to have mechanisms of governance allowing countries to come together and manage together the problems of our times.”
The UN, he said, must “be an instrument for a surge in diplomacy for peace” in the face of crises such as in Mali, South Sudan, Libya, Central African Republic, Syria, Afghanistan, or Somalia.
Noting that these crises are interlinked with terrorism, Guterres said “we need to fight terrorists where they are, but we need to address the root causes of terrorism. That means solving conflicts, and at the same time, build cohesive societies where people can feel they belong, where they don’t feel discriminated [against] and respect human rights to make sure that those terrorist organizations have more and more difficulties in recruiting people.”
With regard to climate change, the Secretary-General said “we need to make sure that all countries commit themselves to the Paris Agreement.”
Wherever countries are not able to do so at the government level, he said, “the societies, the business communities, the cities are able to lead the process” in order to meet the provisions of the Agreement.
Guterres called for “increased ambition” as “Paris is not enough to be able to contain global warming at the level that is acceptable.”
At the same time, he said, “we need to see that there is a clear link between climate change and development, and the sustainability of development.”
The Secretary-General said he hoped “young people will push their societies, their communities, their governments to understand that they need to have policies of social cohesion, they need to have policies that allow for everyone to feel that his or her identity is respected but, at the same time, that they belong to the community as a whole.”
UNGA 72 will convene at UN Headquarters on Tuesday, 12 September 2017. The General Debate will open on Tuesday, 19 September 2017, with the theme ‘Focusing on People: Striving for Peace and a Decent Life for All on a Sustainable Planet.’
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