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STORY: INDIA / GUTERRES GANDHI
TRT: 01:14
SOURCE: UN IN INDIA
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 2 OCTOBER 2018, NEW DELHI, INDIA
1. Pan right, backdrop for Mahatma Gandhi International Sanitation Convention
2. Wide shot, family photo, including Secretary-General António Guterres and Indian President Narendra Modi
3. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Almost one billion still practice open defecation. All people have the right to safe water and sanitation. If we are to build resilient societies and a healthy planet and achieve the overarching ambition of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, we must tackle this issue urgently as it is being done in India.”
4. Wide shot, Guterres and delegation walking
5. Various shots, Guterres and Modi meeting
6. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“The International Solar Alliance represents exactly what needs to be done and represents the future.”
7. Wide shot, audience
8. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Solar energy is competitive with, and often cheaper than fossil fuels, even despite the harmful subsidies that polluting energies still receive around the world. “
9. Wide shot, Guterres and Modi shake hands
Speaking at the closing session of the Mahatma Gandhi International Sanitation Convention in New Delhi, Secretary-General António Guterres today (2 Oct) highlighted Gandhi’s long record of advocacy and action on the issue, and said that “if we are to build resilient societies and a healthy planet and achieve the overarching ambition of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, we must tackle this issue urgently as it is being done in India.”
An estimated 2.3 billion people, still do not have basic sanitation facilities. Almost 1 billion defecate in the open.
The UN chief outlined some of the many consequences and risks of poor sanitation, including disease, stunting and indignity, and noted that women and girls are disproportionately impacted.
Later, the Secretary-General addressed the first general assembly of the International Solar Alliance, an organization initiated several years ago by the Governments of India and France in the build up to the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference, which describes itself as a coalition of solar resource-rich countries.
The UN chief said, “the International Solar Alliance represents exactly what needs to be done and represents the future,” and pointed out that “solar energy is competitive with, and often cheaper than fossil fuels, even despite the harmful subsidies that polluting energies still receive around the world. “
Also on Tuesday, Guterres held a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, during which he thanked Modi for the strong cooperation between India and the UN, especially in support of the UN chief’s organizational reform effort.
