GA / GA PRESIDENT ELECTION

The UN General Assembly today elected Serbia's Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic as the President of the upcoming 67th session of the Assembly. UNTV

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:39
• Production Date: 8 June 2012
• Asset Language: Original
• Subject Topical: ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE
• MAMS Id: U120608d

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STORY: GA / GA PRESIDENT ELECTION
TRT: 1.39
SOURCE: UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 8 JUNE 2012, NEW YORK CITY / FILE

Shotlist

FILE – 2011, NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters

8 JUNE 2012, NEW YORK

2. Wide shot, General Assembly
3. Pan right, ballot papers being distributed
4. Pan right, ballots being collected in ballot boxes
5. Med shot, Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin
6. SOUNDUP (English) Ambassador Nassir Abdualziz Al-Nasser of Qatar, President of the 66th session of the General Assembly:
“Having obtained the required majority, his Excellency Vuk Jeremic has been elected President of the 67th session of the General Assembly.”
7. Zoom in, Vuk Jeremic seated
8. Pan left, delegates
9. Wide shot, Vuk Jeremic approaching the podium
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Vuk Jeremic, Foreign Minister of Serbia and President-Elect of the 67th session of the General Assembly:
“We are a small developing country that belongs to no military alliance or political union. It is therefore truly honouring to receive the confidence of so many nations from all over the world.”
11. Med shot, Ambassador Dalius Cekuolis of Lithuania
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Permanent Representative of to the United Nations:
“Today our nation can proudly stand before the world again, less than two decades after having been left out of this chamber. We are a country in which the transfer of power is accomplished peacefully and in accordance with the rule of law. Serbia is a democracy that apart from working to ensure its own sovereignty and territorial integrity and the wellbeing of its citizens has no ambition other than to advance the common interest of mankind.”
13. Wide shot, end of meeting

Storyline

The United Nations General Assembly today (8 June) elected Serbia’s Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic as the President of the upcoming 67th session of the Assembly.

In the meeting to vote on the President-elect this morning, a total of 190 ballots were lodged, with Jeremic obtaining 99 votes, against 85 votes received by the other candidate, Ambassador Dalius Cekuolis of Lithuania. One country abstained and five votes were invalid.

SOUNDUP (English) Ambassador Nassir Abdualziz Al-Nasser of Qatar, President of the 66th session of the General Assembly:
“Having obtained the required majority, his Excellency Vuk Jeremic has been elected President of the 67th session of the General Assembly.”

In his statement to the Assembly, the 36-year old President-Elect said he saw his success as a “tribute to the Serbian people”.

SOUNDBITE (English) Vuk Jeremic, Foreign Minister of Serbia and President-Elect of the 67th session of the General Assembly:
“We are a small developing country that belongs to no military alliance or political union. It is therefore truly honouring to receive the confidence of so many nations from all over the world.”

Jeremic said that a painful era had come to an end for his country.

SOUNDBITE (English) Permanent Representative of to the United Nations:
“Today our nation can proudly stand before the world again, less than two decades after having been left out of this chamber. We are a country in which the transfer of power is accomplished peacefully and in accordance with the rule of law. Serbia is a democracy that apart from working to ensure its own sovereignty and territorial integrity and the wellbeing of its citizens has no ambition other than to advance the common interest of mankind.”

Made up of all the 193 Member States of the United Nations, the General Assembly provides a forum for multilateral discussion of the full spectrum of international issues covered by the UN Charter. It meets in regular session intensively from September to December each year, and thereafter as required.