UN / MEDITERRANEAN PEACE SECURITY

UN Secretary-General António Guterres said the Mediterranean region faces “serious challenges on multiple fronts”, including Illicit trade in narcotics, weapons and petroleum products, large movements of refugees and migrants, “regrettably managed by human smugglers and traffickers”, and maritime piracy. UNIFEED / FILE

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:22
• Production Date: 17 November 2017
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: ANTONIO GUTERRES
• Corporate Name: SECURITY COUNCIL
• Subject Topical: PEACE AND SECURITY
• Geographic Subject: MEDITERRANEAN REGION
• MAMS Id: 2040406
• Parent Id: 2040406
• Alternate Title: unifeed171117d

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STORY: UN / MEDITERRANEAN PEACE SECURITY
TRT: 02:22
SOURCE: UNIFEED / UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR ON SCREEN FOR FILE FOOTAGE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 17 NOVEMBER 2017, NEW YORK CITY / FILE

Shotlist

FILE - NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, UNHQ exterior

17 NOVEMBER 2017, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Today, the Mediterranean faces serious challenges on multiple fronts. Illicit trade in narcotics, weapons and petroleum products. Large movements of refugees and migrants, regrettably managed by human smugglers and traffickers. Maritime piracy. The narcotics trade is also generating deadly spill-over effects such as increased drug use and health crises.”
4. Wide shot, Security Council
5. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“The Mediterranean is a global junction of mutually enriching cultures, societies and economies. Yet violence and hatred are threatening that dynamism, to the detriment of the entire world. We should do our utmost to resolve the worst of the region so that it can continue to contribute its best. I count on countries in the Mediterranean and beyond to reaffirm their proud tradition of openness and solidarity.”
6. Wide shot, Security Council
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Angelino Alfano, Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Italy:
“Our strategy has been to combine solidarity and security. For example, in the course of the migration crisis, we have proved that it is possible to save more than half a million lives at sea and at the same time contrast fundamentalists and extremist that despise the values of our open and democratic society.”

FILE – UNHCR - 17-22 SEPTEMBER 2017, MEDITERRANEAN SEA, 50 MILES OFF THE LIBYAN COAST

8. Med shot, Italian Coast Guards transferring a child from one boat to another
9. Med shot, migrants at night on a rescue boat
10. Close up, woman on a boat
11. Wide shot, migrants on a boat
12. Close up, children on boat
13. Various shots, migrants boarding the Italian Coast Guard patrol vessel
14. Wide shot, volunteer doctor speaking with migrant
15. Close up, doctor speaking with migrant
16. Close up, migrants hand
17. Tilt up, migrants sitting on deck to sea

Storyline

UN Secretary-General António Guterres said the Mediterranean region faces “serious challenges on multiple fronts”, including Illicit trade in narcotics, weapons and petroleum products, large movements of refugees and migrants, “regrettably managed by human smugglers and traffickers”, and maritime piracy.

Addressing the Security Council today (17 Nov), Guterres said the situation in the Mediterranean illustrates that peace and security are inseparable from democratic, economic, and social progress, and from the advancement of gender, youth, minorities and human rights. He said Libya’s stability is vital for the region and Instability in the Sahel region has contributed to an increase in irregular migration towards Europe. Guterres stressed that security gains against terrorist groups in Libya, Iraq and elsewhere may prove reversible if the international community does not accelerate construction and economic recovery, adding that Da’esh will also continue to thrive unless the deep political roots of the Syrian conflict are resolved through a credible and comprehensive political process.

Guterres noted that there is a clear need to create more regular and safe ways to protect those fleeing persecution, and address the drivers of displacement. He said the world must also address the worrisome increase in xenophobia and discrimination against refugees, migrants and minorities. He stressed that it is essential to re-establish the integrity of the refugee protection regime on both sides of the Mediterranean and increase resettlement and relocation programmes.

The Secretary-General said, “The Mediterranean is a global junction of mutually enriching cultures, societies and economies. Yet violence and hatred are threatening that dynamism, to the detriment of the entire world. We should do our utmost to resolve the worst of the region so that it can continue to contribute its best. I count on countries in the Mediterranean and beyond to reaffirm their proud tradition of openness and solidarity.”

Italian Foreign Minister Angelino Alfano said the Mediterranean is a small sea but much of global security is at stake in the region. He said despite representing only one percent of the world’s surface, much of the world’s security and stability is played out in the sea, and Italy at the centre of the Mediterranean is bearing the brunt of the insecurity it faces. Alfano said Italy’s strategy has been “to combine solidarity and security.” He said, in the course of the migration crisis, Italy “proved that it is possible to save more than half a million lives at sea and at the same time contrast fundamentalists and extremist that despise the values of our open and democratic society.”

So far this year, at least 2,800 refugees and migrants have perished in the Mediterranean, while countless others died on their way across the desert.