UN / PEACE AND SECURITY THREATS

Secretary-General António Guterres told the Security Council that there is “not only a quantitative but also a qualitative change in threats to international peace and security,” including nuclear weapons, climate change, and cybersecurity. UNIFEED

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:42
• Production Date: 20 December 2017
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: ANTONIO GUTERRES
• Corporate Name: SECURITY COUNCIL
• Subject Topical: CLIMATE CHANGE; CYBER SECURITY; NUCLEAR WEAPONS; PEACE AND SECURITY; TRANSNATIONAL CRIME
• Geographic Subject: JAPAN
• MAMS Id: 2064464
• Parent Id: 2064464
• Alternate Title: unifeed171220b

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STORY: UN / PEACE AND SECURITY THREATS
TRT: 01:42
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 20 DECEMBER 2017, NEW YORK CITY / FILE

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FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters

20 DECEMBER 2017, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. Med shot, delegates
4. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“We are seeing not only a quantitative but also a qualitative change in threats to international peace and security. The perils of nuclear weapons are again front and centre, with tensions higher than they have been since the end of the Cold War. Climate change has emerged as a threat multiplier. Water scarcity is a growing concern, as demand for freshwater is projected to grow by more than 40 per cent by the middle of the century.”
5. Med shot, delegates
6. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Inequality and exclusion feed frustration and marginalization. Cybersecurity dangers are escalating, as some of the same advances in technology that generated so many gains have also made it easier for extremists to communicate, broadcast distorted narratives of grievance, recruit followers and exploit people.”
7. Med shot, delegates
8. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Our efforts must be coherent, coordinated and context-specific. We must work across pillars, and across the peace continuum, towards integrated action.”
9. Med shot, delegates
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Koro Bessho, Permanent Representative of Japan to the United Nations:
“We are all responsible for continuously reviewing what measures and tools can be used in order for the Security Council to play its leading role more effectively as one of the principal organs of the United Nations primary responsible for the maintenance of international peace and security.”
11. Wide shot, Council

Storyline

Secretary-General António Guterres today (20 Dec) told the Security Council that there is “not only a quantitative but also a qualitative change in threats to international peace and security,” including nuclear weapons, climate change, and cybersecurity.

Speaking during an open debate on the theme “addressing complex contemporary challenges to international peace and security,” Guterres said “the perils of nuclear weapons are again front and centre, with tensions higher than they have been since the end of the Cold War. Climate change has emerged as a threat multiplier. Water scarcity is a growing concern, as demand for freshwater is projected to grow by more than 40 per cent by the middle of the century.”

He said “inequality and exclusion feed frustration and marginalization. Cybersecurity dangers are escalating, as some of the same advances in technology that generated so many gains have also made it easier for extremists to communicate, broadcast distorted narratives of grievance, recruit followers and exploit people.”

The Secretary-General called for “coherent, coordinated and context-specific” efforts as well as working “across pillars, and across the peace continuum, towards integrated action.”

Koro Bessho, Permanent Representative of Japan, which circulated a concept paper in preparation for the debate, said “we are all responsible for continuously reviewing what measures and tools can be used in order for the Security Council to play its leading role more effectively as one of the principal organs of the United Nations primary responsible for the maintenance of international peace and security.”