GA / DEISS WRAP

Swiss politician and economist Joseph Deiss is elected president of the General Assembly's sixty-fifth session."I accept my mandate with great hope and solid conviction, he said, "I am convinced that here in the UN we can find the energy needed to generate a movement of peace, altruism and friendship between peoples." UNTV

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:03:04
• Production Date: 11 June 2010
• Asset Language: Original
• Subject Topical: ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE
• MAMS Id: U100611b

Description

STORY: GA/ DEISS WRAP
TRT: 3.04
SOURCE: UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / FRENCH / NATS

DATELINE: 10 JUNE 2010, NEW YORK CITY

Shotlist

RECENT 2010, NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, exterior, United Nations headquarters

10 JUNE 2010, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, General Assembly
3. Pan right, audience
4. Zoom in, General Assembly Podium
5. SOUNDBITE (French) Joseph Deiss, President, 65th General Assembly, United Nations:
“The world now faces enormous challenges. But, I accept my mandate with great hope and solid conviction. The last decades have seen remarkable economic growth, which has lifted millions of people out of poverty. The extraordinary solidarity shown in response to recent natural disasters testifies to the generosity of each and every one of us. But why wait until the next earthquake or other natural disaster before acting? I am convinced that here in the UN we can find the energy needed to generate a movement of peace, altruism and friendship between peoples.”
6. Pan left, audience applauding
7. Wide shot, press conference
8. Cutaway, press conference
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Joseph Deiss, President, 65th General Assembly, United Nations:
“I will be in line with the duties which belong to the General Assembly and the Security Council. On the other hand, and this means I will look that the General Assembly will be the pre-eminent place that debates on global issues take place. It’s a place where you are debating, that doesn’t mean that there’s nothing that comes out but it’s not a body that has political actions to decide, this belongs to the Security Council.”
9. Cutaway, journalists
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Joseph Deiss, President, 65th General Assembly, United Nations:
“The role of the president of the General Assembly is not to bring in the solution and to try to get it. The solution we will have is up to the member states. What I will do is try to activate the debate and to feel where possible ways of consensus exists. And if I feel that any possibility in this sense is open I will help to push in the right direction. But it would be totally false for me to say today on and after my election to say a Security Council solution should be this or that, that’s not the role of the president.”
11. Wide shot, Deiss walks away

Storyline

A former leader of Switzerland who was instrumental to his country joining the United Nations eight years ago was today chosen by the world body’s 192 Member States to serve as the next President of the General Assembly (GA).
Joseph Deiss, 64, who was elected this morning by acclamation, will succeed Ali Treki when he takes over the presidency in mid-September as the GA’s 65th session begins.
Accepting the post “with great hope and solid conviction,” Deiss told the Assembly that the world has entered an era of increasing interdependence.
Later, he told journalists that the GA would be the pre-eminent place that debated on global issues and that the GA was, “not a body that had political actions to decide, that belonged to the Security Council.”

Responding to what steps he would take concerning the reform of the Security Council, Deiss said that the role of the president of the GA was not to bring in the solution and that the solution was up to the member states.