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UN / CLOS
STORY: UN / CLOS
TRT: 2.57
SOURCE: UNTV
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 3 NOVEMBER 2010, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
RECENT 2010, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior UN HQ
3 NOVEMBER 2010, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Joan Clos and Martin Nesirky sit down
3. Cutaway, photographer
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Joan Clos, Executive Director, UN HABITAT:
“I am reaching or I am arriving at HABITAT with the aim of both continuity and renewal; the two things all together. Continuity on the ascending role of HABITAT inside the UN family, and also produce some changes and some improvements in our organization in order to be more focused, more performance and more efficient, the overall objective of the United Nations of delivering as one and being more efficient in general.”
5. Cutaway, journalists
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Joan Clos, Executive Director, UN HABITAT:
“We are seeing in several parts of the world cities which are on the verge of the mobility collapse and this is another big challenge where we are quite often, now confronted in order to advice governments, and city governments to address this very difficult issue because the growth of these cities in the developing world has been done without urban planning and now when one of the cities is already a huge city its very difficult with the lack of the previous urban planning to find out solutions for the mobility.”
7. Cutaway, journalists
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Joan Clos, Executive Director, UN HABITAT:
“When you look at the megalopolis of the developing world you see that you have a waiting list of people, a huge waiting list mainly in the slums waiting for jobs and for better perspectives for life. And then once you are facing the need to solve the slum reality you really find out that what you need it to create jobs in the city, and to create prosperity and to generate a circle of prosperity, a dynamic of prosperity which in a way can address the poverty or the bigger difficulties in the city.”
FILE - IRIN - AUGUST 2007, KARACHI, PAKISTAN
9. Various shots, crowded city scenes
10. Various shots, slum dwellers
FILE – WORLD BANK - JULY 2008, MARIKINA, PHILIPPINES
11. Various shots, city scene with modern transportation system
Joan Clos, the newly elected Executive Director of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) told journalists today (3 November) at the United Nations (UN) that he arrived at UN-HABITAT with the aim to promote both “continuity and renewal.”
He added that he plans to continue the role of HABITAT as a part of the UN family but also aims to create some changes and improvements to the organization so that it will be more focused and efficient.
Clos said that there is a need to establish a new system of mobility of the population because in several parts of the world some cities were on the verge of a mobility collapse.
He added that the growth of these cities in the developing world had been done without urban planning. Without such planning, he added, it now a challenge to find solutions to the mobility problem.
Clos urged governments to intensify efforts to improve the lives of slum dwellers and to prevent further emerging and growing slums,
He said that looking at the megalopolis of the developing world one could see a list of people in the slums waiting for jobs, and for better perspectives for life.
He added that to solve the problem of slums, more jobs need to be created and there is a need “to create prosperity and to generate a circle of prosperity, a dynamic of prosperity which in a way can address the poverty or the bigger difficulties in the city.”
Prior to his new appointment, Clos served as the Mayor of Barcelona and has had a long career in the Spanish Government both at the local and national level. Between 2006 and 2008, he was appointed Minister of Industry, Tourism and Trade in Spanish President José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero's cabinet.
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