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STORY: UN / BOLIVIA EVO MORALES
TRT: 01:16
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: SPANISH / NATS
DATELINE: 19 SEPTEMBER 2017, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
1. Wide shot, exterior UN Headquarters
2. Wide shot, President Evo Morales of Bolivia addressing the General Assembly
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Evo Morales, President, Bolivia:
“It is unjustifiable and inadmissible that the United States has decided to pull out from the Paris agreement. As one of the biggest polluters, by rejecting this global effort, its government has become a threat against Mother Earth.”
4. Med shot, delegates
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Evo Morales, President, Bolivia:
“Bolivia condemns categorically the unilateral sanctions and the threats of an invasion by the government of the United States against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Our region is not anyone’s backyard.”
6. Med shot, delegates
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Evo Morales, President, Bolivia:
“It is clear that the government of the United States is the main threat against Mother Earth, against multilateralism, against peace, and against freedom.”
8. Wide shot, delegates
The President of Bolivia, Evo Morales, today (19 Sep) told the General Assembly’s General Debate that “it is unjustifiable and inadmissible” that the United States has decided to pull out from the Paris climate agreement.
As one of the world’s biggest polluters, and by rejecting this global effort, Morales said the US government “has become a threat against Mother Earth.”
The Bolivian President condemned “the unilateral sanctions and the threats of an invasion by the government of the United States against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela,” and added that the Latin American region “is not anyone’s backyard.”
Morales said it was “clear that the government of the United States is the main threat against Mother Earth, against multilateralism, against peace, and against freedom.”
