GA / MACRON WRAP

Speaking at the United Nations General Debate, French President Emmanuel Macron said taking apart the Paris Agreement on climate change “would mean not just taking apart a pact between the states but also between the generations.” UNIFEED

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:03:12
• Production Date: 19 September 2017
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: EMMANUEL MACRON
• Corporate Name: GENERAL ASSEMBLY
• Subject Topical: GENERAL DEBATE
• Geographic Subject: FRANCE
• MAMS Id: 1971990
• Parent Id: 1971990
• Alternate Title: unifeed170919c

Description

STORY: GA / MACRON WRAP
TRT: 3:12
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: FRENCH /NATS

DATELINE: 19 SEPTEMBER 2017, NEW YORK CITY

Shotlist

1. Wide shot, exterior, UN Headquarters
2. Med shot, Macron walking to podium
3. Med shot, French delegation
4. Wide shot, GA Hall
5. SOUNDBITE (French) Emmanuel Macron, President, France:
“My country had promised a universal agreement in Paris, which was adopted and signed here in this room. That agreement cannot be renegotiated. It binds us. It unites us. Taking it apart would mean not just taking apart a pact between the states but also between the generations. It can be improved, it can have new contributions, new inputs, but we will not backtrack.”
6. Med shot, audience applauding
7. SOUNDBITE (French) Emmanuel Macron, President, France:
“I fully respect the decision of the United States and the door will always be open. But we will continue, with all governments, local communities, cities, businesses, NGOs and citizens to implement the Paris Agreement.”
8. Wide shot, Macron at the podium
9. SOUNDBITE (French) Emmanuel Macron, President, France:
“Up to date, the North Korea has not give us any sign that it is ready to negotiate. Its leaders are determent to raise the stakes. Our responsibility, with all our partners including China and Russia is, through resolve, to bring the North Korea to the negotiating table and to a political resolution of the crisis. France is not closing any doors to dialogue, provided that the conditions are met for the dialogue to lead to peace.”
10. Med shot, DPRK delegate
11. Med shot, French First Lady in audience
12. SOUNDBITE (French) Emmanuel Macron, President, France:
“Renouncing it now, without proposing alternatives, would be a grave mistake. Not respecting it would be irresponsible because this is a good agreement, it is a useful agreement, essential for the peace at the moment when the risk of a downward spiral cannot be ruled out.”
13. Wide shot, Macron at the podium
14. SOUNDBITE (French) Emmanuel Macron, President, France:
“The United Nations has full legitimacy to act to address the challenges of the world. That is why I want the UN to be more responsible, more efficient, more agile and I fully support the project pf the Secretary-General, his ambition and his will to make the organization able respond to the challenges of the planet.”
15. Wide shot, Macron entering press room
16. Wide shot, reporters
17. SOUNDBITE (French) Emmanuel Macron, President, France:
“I wish, that if that referendum is held, that it will end up with a proper representation of Kurds in Iraqi government and its constitution. I say that because today in Iraq we need stability – territorial and political.”
18. Wide shot, Macron at the podium

Storyline

Speaking at the United Nations General Debate, French President Emmanuel Macron said taking apart the Paris Agreement on climate change “would mean not just taking apart a pact between the states but also between the generations.”

Macron said he “fully respect the decision of the United States” to back from the Agreement but he said “we will continue with all governments, local communities, cities, businesses, NGOs and citizens to implement the Paris Agreement.”

On the North Korea nuclear crisis, Macron said “France is not closing any doors to dialogue” and added in “our responsibility, with all our partners including China and Russia is, through resolve, to bring the North Korea to the negotiating table and to a political resolution of the crisis.”

He also voiced a support for the Iran nuclear deal, signed in 2015, and said that “not respecting it would be irresponsible because this is a good agreement, it is a useful agreement, essential for the peace at the moment when the risk of a downward spiral cannot be ruled out.”

French President expressed his support for the UN system reforms, proposed by its Secretary-General António Guterres. He said “I want the UN to be more responsible, more efficient, more agile.”

Talking to the press after his remarks at the GA, Macron said he hoped that the announced Kurdish referendum on independence would end up “with a proper representation of Kurds in Iraqi government and its constitution.”

Macron said “today in Iraq we need stability – territorial and political.”