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WASHINGTON D.C. / BAN KI-MOON – WORLD BANK
STORY: WASHINGTON D.C. / BAN KI-MOON – WORLD BANK
TRT: 3:31
SOURCE: WORLD BANK
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 19 APRIL 2013, Washington, DC
1. Wide shot, Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, and World Bank Group President, Jim Yong Kim descend staircase together.
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon:
“ And there are many ways the United Nations and the World Bank are working together. For instance we work together as the co-chair for Sustainable Energy For All with a clear target and goals by 2030 we’ll provide energy access to all the people around the world. By 2030 We’ll double the energy efficiency and also double the renewable energy resources in global energy mix. These are some of the examples. And now in education President Kim and I work together as co-chair to provide the primary education to all the people, to all the boys and girls. There are 61 million people, children, who are out of school . Our target by 2016 bring all these 61 million boys and girls back to school. These are targets – setting goals and targets.”
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon:
“Even despite these economic difficulties I’m just urging and appealing to traditional donors and civil societies and philanthropies and to business communities to provide their fundings to help those people who are being lifted out of poverty.”
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Jim Yong Kim, President, World Bank Group:
“The world has expected that we would work under the Secretary General’s leadership to tackle the world’s most difficult problems. Poverty is certainly one of the world’s most difficult problems. And with the stature he has, the sense of integrity that he brings to everything he does, and the entire UN worldwide system, we really feel there’s no problem we can’t tackle.”
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Jim Yong Kim, President, World Bank Group:
“With Secretary General’s leadership we’re going together to the Great Lakes region and one of the areas of great promise is that as the World Bank and the UN continue to grow their partnership in important ways, we’re going to be able to go the Great Lakes region – a place that needs simultaneously political, security and developmental solutions. And so our IDA funding is precisely what will be used to make the kinds of investments as the Secretary General negotiates peace agreements, which was such a fantastic achievement a few months ago. Now we have to take the next steps and secure the peace. And we think security the peace means investing in energy, investing in improving the investment climate even in those areas so that businesses can grow, providing health, education and social protection. And so the IDA funding we would get is made so much more effective working together with the United Nations. We think we can do this in many places. Come in and work together, security and political stability and development solutions together.”
6. Med shot, Ban and Kim shaking hands
7. Wide shot, Kim climbing up to the stage to join Ban
8. Med shot, audience clapping
9. Various, Ban and Kim seated onstage
10. Wide shot, audience taking notes
World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon met today in Washington D.C. to discuss what the two organizations and their partners must do to turn the goal of ending extreme poverty into a reality and engage global citizens around this topic.
Ban began the meeting by highlighting the many ways the World Bank and the United Nations were working together.
SOUNDBITE (English) Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon:
“ And there are many ways the United Nations and the World Bank are working together. For instance we work together as the co-chair for Sustainable Energy For All with a clear target and goals by 2030 we’ll provide energy access to all the people around the world. By 2030 We’ll double the energy efficiency and also double the renewable energy resources in global energy mix. These are some of the examples. And now in education President Kim and I work together as co-chair to provide the primary education to all the people, to all the boys and girls. There are 61 million people, children, who are out of school . Our target by 2016 bring all these 61 million boys and girls back to school. These are targets – setting goals and targets.”
He then appealed for funds in order to lift people out of poverty.
SOUNDBITE (English) Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon:
“Even despite these economic difficulties I’m just urging and appealing to traditional donors and civil societies and philanthropies and to business communities to provide their fundings to help those people who are being lifted out of poverty.”
For his part, Kim, the World Bank Group President, praised the Secretary-General’s commitment to end poverty.
SOUNDBITE (English) Jim Yong Kim, President, World Bank Group:
“The world has expected that we would work under the Secretary General’s leadership to tackle the world’s most difficult problems. Poverty is certainly one of the world’s most difficult problems. And with the stature he has, the sense of integrity that he brings to everything he does, and the entire UN worldwide system, we really feel there’s no problem we can’t tackle.”
And he spoke about the partnership that was being forged between both organizations over the Great Lakes region, where international development assistance could strengthen peace and security there.
SOUNDBITE (English) Jim Yong Kim, President, World Bank Group:
“With Secretary General’s leadership we’re going together to the Great Lakes region and one of the areas of great promise is that as the World Bank and the UN continue to grow their partnership in important ways, we’re going to be able to go the Great Lakes region – a place that needs simultaneously political, security and developmental solutions. And so our IDA funding is precisely what will be used to make the kinds of investments as the Secretary General negotiates peace agreements, which was such a fantastic achievement a few months ago. Now we have to take the next steps and secure the peace. And we think security the peace means investing in energy, investing in improving the investment climate even in those areas so that businesses can grow, providing health, education and social protection. And so the IDA funding we would get is made so much more effective working together with the United Nations. We think we can do this in many places. Come in and work together, security and political stability and development solutions together.”
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