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STORY: UN / MULTILATERALISM AND DIPLOMACY
TRT: 2:31
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / SPANISH / NATS
DATELINE: 24 APRIL 2019, NEW YORK CITY
RECENT – NEW YORK CITY
1.Wide shot, exterior United Nations
24 APRIL 2019, NEW YORK CITY
2.Various shots, General Assembly Hall
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Maria Luiza Ribeiro Viotti, Chef de Cabinet, United Nations :
“It is not enough to proclaim the virtue of multilateralism, we must prove its added value. Nor is it acceptable to dismiss the doubters, we must show that multilateralism can respond to global anxieties and deliver a fair globalization that lifts all.”
4. Wide shot, General Assembly
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Maria Luiza Ribeiro Viotti, Chef de Cabinet, United Nations :
“We need a stronger commitment to a rules based order with an effective United Nations as its centre. We need a networked multilateralism with close cooperation among international, and regional organizations, including development banks. And since governments and international organizations cannot do it alone, we need an inclusive multilateralism rooted in partnerships with the business community, civil society, parliaments, academic and philanthropic communities and other stakeholders, particular young people.”
6. Wide shot, Espinosa addressing General Assembly
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Maria Fernanda Espinosa, President of the 73rd Session of the General Assembly:
“Excellencies, in order to achieve and sustainable peace and sustainable development, multilateralism is not just the most efficient way, but the only possible way. We must put an end to the false concept that multilateralism undermines the sovereignty of States, but in fact it fosters the sovereignty.”
8. Various shots, General Assembly Hall
10. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Maria Fernanda Espinosa, President of the 73rd Session of the General Assembly:
“Excellencies, we have a single opportunity to tip the balance on the right side of the history. When people question, the answer should be more multilateralism, more cooperation; when faced with mistrust, the response must be more efficiency, more transparency; when faced with violence, the response must be more diplomacy, more dialogue; when faced with unilateralism, the response must be more solidarity and greater collective actions.”
11. Wide shot, delegates clapping
Marking the International Day of Multilateralism and Diplomacy for Peace, a senior UN official said, “we must show that multilateralism can respond to global anxieties and deliver a fair globalization that lifts all.”
Speaking on behalf of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres at a high level plenary meeting, Chef de Cabinet Maria Luiza Ribeiro Viotti told the General Assembly today (24 Apr) in New York that “we need a stronger commitment to a rules based order with an effective United Nations as its centre. We need a network of multilateralism with close cooperation among international, and regional organizations, including development banks.”
Viotti continued, “since governments and international organizations cannot do it alone, we need an inclusive multilateralism rooted in partnerships with the business community, civil society, parliaments, academic and philanthropic communities and other stakeholders, particular young people.”
President of the UN General Assembly Maria Fernanda Espinosa said, “in order to achieve and sustainable peace and sustainable development, multilateralism is not just the most efficient way, but the only possible way.”
She added, “We must put an end to false concept that multilateralism undermines the sovereignty of State, but in fact it fosters the sovereignty.”
Espinosa also stated that leaders had "a single opportunity to tip the balance on the right side of the history.”
She stressed, “When people question, the answer should be more multilateralism, more cooperation; when faced with mistrust, the response must be more efficiency, more transparency; when faced with violence, the response must be more diplomacy, more dialogue; when faced with unilateralism, the response must be more solidarity and greater collective actions.”
April 24 2019 is the first official International Day of Multilateralism and Diplomacy for Peace. The International Day was officially approved on 12 December, 2018 designating 24 April of every year as the day for the international observance.
The International Day is a reaffirmation of the UN Charter and its principles of resolving disputes among countries through peaceful means. It acknowledges the use of multilateral decision-making and diplomacy in achieving peaceful resolutions to conflicts among nations.
