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STORY: GENEVA / GUTERRES UNCTAD 60
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SOURCE: UNTV CH
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 12 JUNE 2024, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
1. Tilt down, Palais des Nations with UNCTAD 60 signage
2. Pan left, Secretary-General António Guterres welcomed by UNCTAD Secretary-General Rebeca Grynspan
3. Various shots, Guterres walking with Grynspan and delegation
4. Wide shot, Guterres speaking with journalists
5. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“We are deeply committed to humanitarian aid to the population in Gaza, where UNRWA is the backbone of that support. We have faced a number of difficulties and obstacles that are well known but nothing diminishes our commitment. Of course, it's extremely difficult to support the population that is under fire; it's extremely difficult to support the population when there are so many restrictions to the entry of the necessary supplies for humanitarian aid.”
6. Wide shot, Guterres speaking with journalists
7. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“We have witnessed, and we are perfectly aware of what was a unique level of destruction and the unique level of casualties in the Palestinian population during these months of war that has no precedent in any other situation that I've lived as Secretary-General of the United Nations.”
8. Med shot, journalists
9. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Developing and emerging economies outside China have seen clean energy investments stuck at the same levels since 2015 and Africa was home to less than one per cent of last year’s renewables installations despite its wealth of resources and its vast potential. We need advanced economies to rally behind the emerging and developing ones and to show climate solidarity by providing the technological and financial support they need to cut emissions. We need a clear commitment from the G7 on doubling finance for adaptation by next year and closing the adaptation finance gap.”
10. Close up, TV camera viewfinder showing Guterres in shot
11. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“As you know, I am Portuguese and if you look at the results in my country, that doesn't apply. So, that is not necessarily something to take place everywhere. But obviously it is very important to strengthen European democracy, it's very important to strengthen a European commitment to multilateralism. It's very important to stress a European commitment to the rule of law, to the values of the Charter and to the principles of democratic societies. And I hope that that will prevail in Europe.”
12. Med shot, delegates at the UN Trade and Development Global Leaders Conference
13. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“New trade barriers introduced annually have nearly tripled since 2019, many driven by geopolitical rivalry with no concern for their impact on developing countries.”
14. Close up, delegate
15. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“The world cannot afford splits into rival blocs. The implementation of the SDGs and the need to ensure peace and security makes essential to have one global market and one global economy in which there is no place for poverty and hunger.”
16. Wide shot, stage with VIP speakers at UN Trade and Development Global Leaders Conference
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Rebeca Grynspan, Secretary-General, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD):
“The resurgence of industrial policy signals a welcome recognition that the State has a vital role to play in fostering development and transformation. But for many developing nations burdened by debt and limited fiscal space, this resurgence is a distant horizon.”
18. Med shot, photographer preparing to take shot
Speaking to journalists today (12 Jun) in Geneva on the sidelines of the Global Leaders Forum marking the 60th Anniversary of the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Secretary-General António Guterres said, “we are deeply committed to humanitarian aid to the population in Gaza, where UNRWA is the backbone of that support.”
“We have faced a number of difficulties and obstacles that are well known, but nothing diminishes our commitment,” he added, amid a long-running misinformation to discredit the UN agency.”
Turning to the ongoing challenge of providing lifesaving humanitarian assistance to the people of Gaza,
especially since early May when the Israeli military closed the vital Rafah border crossing, the UN chief noted that it remained “extremely difficult to support the population that is under fire; it's extremely difficult to support the population when there are so many restrictions to the entry of the necessary supplies for
humanitarian aid.”
Asked to comment about the findings of a report published earlier in the day by a top Human Rights Council appointed probe into the Gaza war that found Hamas and Israel guilty of war crimes, the UN Chief underscored the enormous scale of destruction and death in the past eight months of hostilities.
He said, “we have witnessed, and we are perfectly aware of what was a unique level of destruction and the unique level of casualties in the Palestinian population during these months of war that has no precedent in any other situation that I've lived as Secretary-General of the United Nations.”
“Developing and emerging economies outside China have seen clean energy investments stuck at the same levels since 2015 and Africa was home to less than one per cent of last year’s renewables installations despite its wealth of resources and its vast potential,” Guterres said, adding that “we need advanced economies to rally behind the emerging and developing ones and to show climate solidarity by providing the technological and financial support they need to cut emissions. We need a clear commitment from the G7 on doubling finance for adaptation by next year and closing the adaptation finance gap.”
Asked about the political situation in Europe, Guterres said, “it is very important to strengthen European democracy, it's very important to strengthen a European commitment to multilateralism. It's very important to stress a European commitment to the rule of law, to the values of the Charter and to the principles of democratic societies. And I hope that that will prevail in Europe.”
Addressing the Forum, Guterres said, “new trade barriers introduced annually have nearly tripled since 2019, many driven by geopolitical rivalry with no concern for their impact on developing countries.”
He said, “the world cannot afford splits into rival blocs,” and added that the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) “and the need to ensure peace and security makes essential to have one global market and one global economy in which there is no place for poverty and hunger.”
Echoing that message, UNCTAD’s Secretary-General Rebeca Grynspan welcomed the “resurgence of industrial policy” in some parts of the world that vindicated the State’s “vital role” in economic development and transformation.”
But she cautioned that for many developing nations burdened by debt and limited fiscal space, “this resurgence is a distant horizon.”
Guterres will next be heading to the G7 Summit in Italy beginning on Thursday to repeat his deep concerns about the unequal distribution of wealth in the global economy and the need for richer nations to support those trying to embrace industrialization.
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