UN / NOBEL PEACE PRIZE REAX

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon praises the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to President Barack Obama, saying it, "gives the world's people fresh hope and fresh prospects." IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei says it was, "well deserved." UNTV / IAEA

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:51
• Production Date: 9 October 2009
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY - IAEA
• Subject Topical: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; PEACE AND SECURITY
• Geographic Subject: UNITED STATES
• MAMS Id: U091009a

Description

STORY: OBAMA / NOBEL PRIZE REAX
TRT: 2.51
SOURCE: UNTV / IAEA
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 9 OCTOBER 2009, NEW YORK CITY, VIENNA, AUSTRIA

Shotlist

RECENT 2009, NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, exterior, United Nations headquarters

9 OCTOBER 2009, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, Ban Ki-moon approaches microphone
3. Cutaway, cameramen
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“I would like to wholeheartedly welcome and congratulate U.S. President Barack Obama on winning the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009. This is great news for President Obama, for the people of the United States and for the United Nations.”

FILE – 24 SEPTEMBER 2009, NEW YORK CITY

5. Wide shot, Barack Obama greets Ban Ki-moon at Security Council Summit meeting on Nuclear disarmament that he chaired

9 OCTOBER 2009, NEW YORK CITY, UNITED STATES

6. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“His firm commitment to work together with the United Nations in addressing all global challenges, including climate change, poverty issues and food security issues, that has given me a great source of encouragement. His own participation in the Climate Change Summit meeting, as well as the General Debate, has also given great hope, renewed multilateralism.”

FILE – 24 SEPTEMBER 2009, NEW YORK CITY

7. Wide shot, Barack Obama greeting Mohammed El Baradei at Security Council Summit meeting on Nuclear disarmament that he chaired

9 OCTOBER 2009, / IAEA, VIENNA, AUSTRIA

8. SOUNDBITE (English) Mohammed El Baradei, Director General, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA):
“I could not have thought of any other person today that is more deserving of the Nobel Peace Prize than Barack Obama. In less than a year, he galvanized the world. For the first time, everybody has hope that we might be able to establish a world at peace with itself, that we might be able to have a system of security that is not based on nuclear weapons.”

FILE – 24 SEPTEMBER 2009, NEW YORK CITY

9. Wide shot, Barack Obama chairing Security Council Summit meeting on Nuclear disarmament

9 OCTOBER 2009, VIENNA, AUSTRIA

10. SOUNDBITE (English) Mohammed El Baradei, Director General, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA):
“Obama has taken the leadership after two wasted decades, completely wasted decades that he managed to put nuclear disarmament on top of the international agenda. He has presided for the first time in 60 years over a Security Council Summit meeting dedicated to recommit to nuclear disarmament through concrete steps.”

FILE – 24 SEPTEMBER 2009, NEW YORK CITY

11. Wide shot, Barack Obama chairing Security Council summit meeting on nuclear disarmament, behind him U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and U.S. Permanent Representative to the U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice

9 OCTOBER 2009, VIENNA, AUSTRIA

12. SOUNDBITE (English) Mohammed El Baradei, Director General, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA):
“They are saluting his commitment to a code of moral values that it is about time we restore in our relationships as individuals, as nations. His effort to move across a divide, to focus on what unites us as human family and not what divides us, irrespective of ethnicity, colour or region. I think it is an inspiration to everyone of us.”

FILE – 24 SEPTEMBER 2009, NEW YORK CITY

13. Wide shot, Barack Obama shakes hands with Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon following the Security Council Summit meeting on Nuclear disarmament, he chaired
14. Wide shot, Barack Obama and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown leave the Security Council behind
15. Wide shot, security Council Chamber

Storyline

Secretary-General Ban Ki moon, “wholeheartedly” welcomed and congratulated United States (US) President Barack Obama on winning the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009, adding this was great news, “for President Obama, for the people of the United States and for the United Nations.”

Speaking today at headquarters in New York, Ban said that Obama’s firm commitment to working together with the United Nations (UN) in addressing global challenges, including climate change, poverty issues and food security issues had given him a great source of encouragement.

The UN applauded him and the Nobel committee for its choice, Mr. Ban added, saying he looked forward to deepening the US-UN partnership as a key building block to a better and safer world for all.

In Vienna today, the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency said he could not think of anyone more deserving of the honour.

Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Mohamed ElBaradei said that Obama had taken the leadership after, “two wasted decades, completely wasted decades,” and managed to put nuclear disarmament on top of the international agenda.

El Baradei said that President Obama had brought a new vision of a world based on human decency, fairness and freedom “which is an inspiration to us all.”