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UN / GUTERRES COVID-19 SDG
STORY: UN / GUTERRES COVID-19 SDG
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SOURCE: UNIFEED
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /NATS
DATELINE: 14 JULY 2020, NEW YORK CITY
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1. Exterior shot, UN flag at the UN Headquarters
14 JULY 2020, NEW YORK CITY
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations:
“I am not here today to tell you that everything will be OK. We need to be honest with ourselves. The COVID-19 crisis is having devastating impacts because of our past and present failures.”
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3. Exterior shot, UN flag at the UN Headquarters
14 JULY 2020, NEW YORK CITY
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations:
“Working hours equivalent to some 400 million jobs were lost in the second quarter of 2020.We are experiencing the sharpest decline in per capita income since 1870. Between 70 and 100 million people could be pushed into extreme poverty. Some 265 million people could face acute food insecurity by year’s end – double the number at risk before the crisis. And the impacts of this pandemic are falling disproportionately on the most vulnerable. At a time when we desperately need to leap ahead, COVID-19 could set us back years and even decades, leaving countries with massive fiscal and growth challenges.”
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5. Exterior shot, UN flag at the UN Headquarters
14 JULY 2020, NEW YORK CITY
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations:
“From the awakening that this crisis is providing, we have a chance to create an inclusive, networked and effective multilateralism. We can also break from the damaging assumptions and approaches of the past -- from how we work to how we learn; where we live and what we consume – and take great leaps forward in doing so. And finally, in the decisions on financing that will be taken over the coming months, we have an opportunity to safeguard recent gains, protect the most vulnerable and move towards more inclusive, sustainable and resilient societies.”
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7. Exterior shot, UN flag at the UN Headquarters
14 JULY 2020, NEW YORK CITY
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations:
“Now we have to rise and meet the moment. We all recognize that the world cannot go back to the previous so-called normal. We need concrete, bold and implementable solutions inspired by the Sustainable Development Goals. “
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9. Exterior shot, UN flag at the UN Headquarters
Speaking at the Ministerial Segment of the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that, at a time when we desperately need to leap ahead, “COVID-19 could set us back years and even decades, leaving countries with massive fiscal and growth challenges.”
“I am not here today to tell you that everything will be OK,” said Guterres. “We need to be honest with ourselves. The COVID-19 crisis is having devastating impacts because of our past and present failures.”
Among those failures, Secretary-General listed inequalities within and between countries that have left billions of people just one crisis away from poverty and financial ruin, the undervalued effective international cooperation and solidarity, lack of investment in resilience – in universal health coverage; quality education; social protection; safe water and sanitation, as well as the imbalances that leave women and girls to constantly bear the brunt of any crisis.
We have yet to take the Sustainable Development Goals seriously, the Secretary-General said. He added that we can still turn this around and he has been encouraged by the tremendous response to the crisis since it hit – from governments, international partners, and the entire UN development system, as well as from heroes in the health system and communities around the world.
“Now we have to rise and meet the moment. We all recognize that the world cannot go back to the previous so-called normal. We need concrete, bold and implementable solutions inspired by the Sustainable Development Goals,” Guterres said.
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