UN / G77

Speaking at a meeting of the Group of 77, UN chief Antonio Guterres said “we must continue to support developing countries in creating conditions for mobilizing domestic resources” and urged the international community to “to fight illicit flows of capital, money laundering and tax evasion, which continue to drain vital resources from the developing world.” UNIFEED

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:33
• Production Date: 27 September 2018
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: ABDEL FATTAH AL-SISI; ANTONIO GUTERRES
• Corporate Name: GENERAL ASSEMBLY; GROUP OF 77
• Subject Topical: DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
• Geographic Subject: EGYPT
• MAMS Id: 2247511
• Parent Id: 2247511
• Alternate Title: unifeed180927c

Description

STORY: UN / G77
TRT: 2:33
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /ARABIC /NATS

DATELINE: 27 SEPTEMBER 2018, NEW YORK CITY

Shotlist

1. Exterior shot, GA building
2. Wide shot, podium
3. Wide shot, meeting room
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations:
“By its very essence, the G-77 has been a champion of multilateralism. You have defended it and acted to make it stronger – pushing for multilateral solutions to solve common challenges. Now we need concrete action to ensure results.”
5. Cutaway, podium
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations:
“We must continue to support developing countries in creating conditions for mobilizing domestic resources, including through tax reform and other good governance measures. And we must do more to improve their voice and participation in global economic governance.”
7. Wide shot, meeting room
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations:
“At the same time, the international community must take much more effective steps to fight illicit flows of capital, money laundering and tax evasion, which continue to drain vital resources from the developing world.”
9. Wide shot, delegates at podium applauding
10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abdel Fattah Al Sisi, President of Egypt and Chair of the Group 77 for 2018:
“The emerging impact of technologies on youth employment and the capacity to produce represents one of the most important challenges for developing countries, whereby providing employment opportunities to young people in the production sector represents a challenge for most developing countries. Therefore, the group must agree on common vision on this issue.”
11. Med shot, Al Sisi speaking
12. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abdel Fattah Al Sisi, President of Egypt and Chair of the Group 77 for 2018:
“Let us agree to focus our endeavors and needs to apply the technological solutions for key sectors such as health, education, food, water and energy. Furthermore, we have to prioritize technologies that provide new employment opportunities without undermining the existing ones.”
13. Wide shot, delegates applauding

Storyline

Speaking at the 42nd annual meeting of the Group of 77 developing countries at the United Nations, the Organization’s Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said “by its very essence, the G-77 has been a champion of multilateralism. You have defended it and acted to make it stronger – pushing for multilateral solutions to solve common challenges” and underlined that “now we need concrete action to ensure results.”

The secretary-General said “we must continue to support developing countries in creating conditions for mobilizing domestic resources” while also urging international community to “take much more effective steps to fight illicit flows of capital, money laundering and tax evasion, which continue to drain vital resources from the developing world.”

The Egyptian President and this year’s Chair of the G77 Abdel Fattah Al Sisi said, “The emerging impact of technologies on youth employment and the capacity to produce represents one of the most important challenges for developing countries, whereby providing employment opportunities to young people in the production sector represents a challenge for most developing countries. Therefore, the group must agree on common vision on this issue.”

Al Sisi also said the Group should agree to focus our endeavors and needs to apply the technological solutions for key sectors such as health, education, food, water and energy. Furthermore, we have to prioritize technologies that provide new employment opportunities without undermining the existing ones.”

The Group of 77 (G-77) was established on 15 June 1964 by seventy-seven developing countries signatories of the “Joint Declaration of the Seventy-Seven Developing Countries” issued at the end of the first session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in Geneva and it is the largest intergovernmental organization of developing countries in the United Nations, which provides the means for the countries of the South to articulate and promote their collective economic interests and enhance their joint negotiating capacity on all major international economic issues within the United Nations system, and promote South-South cooperation for development.