UN / COOPERATION REGIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

Assistant Secretary-General for Peacebuilding Support Elizabeth Spehar said, “Now, more than ever, a more effective United Nations relies on stronger and deepened cooperation with regional and subregional organizations.” UNIFEED

• Video Length: 00:02:19
• Production Date: 19 July 2024
• Asset Language: English; Russian; Chinese
• Corporate Name: COLLECTIVE SECURITY TREATY ORGANIZATION - CSTO; COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES - CIS; DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL AND PEACEBUILDING AFFAIRS - DPPA
• Subject Topical: REGIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; REGIONAL COOPERATION; MULTILATERALISM
• MAMS Id: 3239151
• Parent Id: 3239151
• Alternate Title: unifeed240719c

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STORY: UN / COOPERATION REGIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
TRT: 02:19
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / CHINESE / RUSSIAN / NATS

DATELINE: 19 JULY 2024, NEW YORK CITY / FILE

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FILE - NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, UN Headquarters

19 JULY 2024, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Elizabeth Spehar, Assistant Secretary-General for Peacebuilding Support, Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, United Nations:
“Now, more than ever, a more effective United Nations relies on stronger and deepened cooperation with regional and subregional organizations, including the Collective Security Treaty Organization, the Commonwealth of Independent States and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.”
4. Med shot, Assistant Secretary-General for Peacebuilding Support, delegates
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Elizabeth Spehar, Assistant Secretary-General for Peacebuilding Support, Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, United Nations:
“As we meet today, the Eurasian region faces rising tensions and emerging threats that require urgent joint action. These threats and challenges range from security, such as preventing violent extremism and countering terrorism, drug trafficking, and unresolved border issues, to those relating to the impact of climate change, including accelerated melting of glaciers and water scarcity, increasingly affecting the countries in the region, and requiring pragmatic collaboration.”
6. Wide shot, Security Council
7. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Zhang Ming, Secretary-General, Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (CSO):
“We need, and we must promote international cooperation with the UN playing a central coordinating role to promptly respond to the threats and challenges and jointly maintain security stability development, prosperity at regional and international levels.”
8. Wide shot, Security Council
9. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Imangali Tasmagambetov, Secretary-General, Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO):
“For preventive effort and overcoming threats we are ready to fully activate the significant and still unharnessed potential of the CSTO and other specialized regional organizations in Eurasia.”
10. Wide shot, Security Council
11. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Lebedev, Secretary-General, Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS):
“The CIS states would like to further strengthen their cooperation with the UN. we are ready to expand mutually beneficial cooperation in support of international peace and security, harmony among nations, protection of human rights and contribution to social and economic progress.”
12. Wide shot, Security Council

Storyline

Assistant Secretary-General for Peacebuilding Support Elizabeth Spehar said, “Now, more than ever, a more effective United Nations relies on stronger and deepened cooperation with regional and subregional organizations.”

Addressing the Security Council today (19 Jul) about cooperation between the UN and regional and subregional organisations in maintaining international peace and security, Spehar said, “As we meet today, the Eurasian region faces rising tensions and emerging threats that require urgent joint action.”

She continued, “These threats and challenges range from security, such as preventing violent extremism and countering terrorism, drug trafficking, and unresolved border issues, to those relating to the impact of climate change, including accelerated melting of glaciers and water scarcity, increasingly affecting the countries in the region, and requiring pragmatic collaboration.”

Zhang Ming, Secretary-General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (CSO), stressed, “We need, and we must promote international cooperation with the UN playing a central coordinating role to promptly respond to the threats and challenges and jointly maintain security stability development, prosperity at regional and international levels.”

Imangali Tasmagambetov, Secretary-General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) said, “For preventive effort and overcoming threats we are ready to fully activate the significant and still unharnessed potential of the CSTO and other specialized regional organizations in Eurasia.”

Lebedev, Secretary-General of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) said, “The CIS states would like to further strengthen their cooperation with the UN. we are ready to expand mutually beneficial cooperation in support of international peace and security, harmony among nations, protection of human rights and contribution to social and economic progress.”