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STORY: UN / ESPINOSA PRESSER
TRT: 01:54
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 21 NOVEMBER 2018, NEW YORK CITY / RECENT
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
21 NOVEMBER 2018, NEW YORK CITY / RECENT
2. Wide shot, press conference
3. Med shot, journalists
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés, 73rd President, United Nations General Assembly:
“We basically fully understand the decision of some countries that have decided that they are not ready to commit. And it is perhaps because they are taking the issue of migration very seriously and they need to have greater discussions and conversations domestically, and we have to respect that.”
5. Med shot, journalists
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés, 73rd President, United Nations General Assembly:
“The beauty of the Compact is that it allows, you know, enormous flexibility for countries to use the parts of the Compact that can be adapted to their sovereign decisions, to their existing legal frameworks. And it is a framework, it is a cooperation, an instrument.”
7. Wide shot, journalists
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés, 73rd President, United Nations General Assembly:
“This is a very strong, unacceptable, terrible situation. But I think it is unfortunately not, you know, the single case that we have. This is a very difficult case, but I am saying that 45 professionals have been killed already during this year alone.”
9. Med shot, journalists
10. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés, 73rd President, United Nations General Assembly:
“We have reached like a peak level in Paris, with the Paris Agreement, but there is a lot that we need to do. What we expect in Katowice is to have a strong agreed programme of work for the Paris Agreement. And it requires a lot of political will, a lot of commitment, a lot of flexibility in the negotiation process.”
11. Wide shot, end of presser
The President of the General Assembly, María Fernanda Espinosa, today (21 Nov) said she “fully understands the decision of some countries that have decided that they are not ready to commit” to the Compact on Migration, as some Member States “need to have greater discussions and conversations domestically.”
Speaking to journalists in New York, Espinosa said, “the beauty of the Compact is that it allows, you know, enormous flexibility for countries to use the parts of the Compact that can be adapted to their sovereign decisions, to their existing legal frameworks. And it is a framework, it is a cooperation, an instrument.”
Asked about the killing of Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Espinosa said, “this is a very strong, unacceptable, terrible situation,” but noted that “unfortunately” this is not an isolated case. She noted that 45 journalists “have been killed already during this year alone.”
Turning to the upcoming COP 24 Climate Change Conference COP 24 in in Katowice, Poland, in December, the GA President said “we have reached like a peak level in Paris, with the Paris Agreement, but there is a lot that we need to do. What we expect in Katowice is to have a strong agreed programme of work for the Paris Agreement. And it requires a lot of political will, a lot of commitment, a lot of flexibility in the negotiation process.”
COP 24 will take place in Katowice from 2 to 18 December.
