UNGA79 / COLOMBIA

Colombian President Gustavo Petro said global inequality is behind “the logic of the mass destruction unleashed in the climate crisis” as well as the logic of the war in Gaza. UNIFEED

• Video Length: 00:01:36
• Production Date: 24 September 2024
• Asset Language: Spanish
• Personal Subject: GUSTAVO PETRO URREGO; BENJAMIN NETANYAHU
• Corporate Name: GENERAL ASSEMBLY
• Subject Topical: OIL PRODUCTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; WAR; EQUALITY
• Geographic Subject: GAZA; ISRAEL; COLOMBIA
• MAMS Id: 3259738
• Parent Id: 3259738
• Alternate Title: unifeed240924o

Description

STORY: UNGA79 / COLOMBIA
TRT: 01:36
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: SPANISH / NATS

DATELINE: 24 SEPTEMBER 2024, NEW YORK CITY / FILE

Shotlist

1. Various shots, United Nations Headquarters
2. Wide shot, Colombian President Gustavo Petro Urrego walks up to GA rostrum
3. Med shot, Colombian delegation
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Gustavo Petro Urrego, President, Colombia:
“Oxfam says that the richest one percent of humanity has more wealth than 95 percent of all humanity combined. It is in this achieved inequality - the greatest in our history as a species - where you can find the logic of the mass destruction unleashed in the climate crisis and the logic of the bombs dropped by a criminal like Netanyahu on Gaza. Netanyahu is a hero for the richest one percent of humanity, because he is able to show that peoples can be destroyed under bombs.”
5. Wide shot, Petro at GA rostrum
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Gustavo Petro Urrego, President, Colombia:
“The Army of Life may not have the weapons of the global oligarchy, it may not have nuclear weapons, it may not compete for weapons nor the money readily available from the banks, nor the power to destroy children in the genocides of the oligarchy. But it will have the greatest power of all, the power of a united humanity that will not let its existence on the planet be taken away.”
7. Wide shot, General Assembly applause

Storyline

Colombian President Gustavo Petro today (24 Sep) said global inequality is behind “the logic of the mass destruction unleashed in the climate crisis” as well as the logic of thewar in Gaza.

Addressing the 79th General Assembly General Debate, Petro said, “Oxfam says that the richest one percent of humanity has more wealth than 95 percent of all humanity combined. It is in this achieved inequality - the greatest in our history as a species - where you can find the logic of the mass destruction unleashed in the climate crisis and the logic of the bombs dropped by a criminal like Netanyahu on Gaza. Netanyahu is a hero for the richest one percent of humanity, because he is able to show that peoples can be destroyed under bombs.”

An “Army of Life” Petro said, “may not have the weapons of the global oligarchy, it may not have nuclear weapons, it may not compete for weapons nor the money readily available from the banks, nor the power to destroy children in the genocides of the oligarchy. But it will have the greatest power of all, the power of a united humanity that will not let its existence on the planet be taken away.”