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STORY: GA / BRAZIL BOLSONARO
TRT: 02:41
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTION: NONE
LANGUAGES: PORTUGUESE / NATS
DATELINE: 24 SEPTEMBER 2019, NEW YORK CITY
RECENT - NEW YORK CITY
1. Pan left, exterior, UN headquarters
24 SEPTEMBER 2019, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Brazilian President arriving at the General Assembly
3. Med shot, Brazilian delegation
4. Zoom out, Bolsonaro walks up to podium
5. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Jair Messias Bolsonaro, President, Brazil:
“This time of the year, dry weather and winds favour both spontaneous and criminal fires. It is also important to mention that indigenous and local populations also use fire as part of their culture and means of survival. All countries have their issues.”
6. Wide shot, delegates
7. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Jair Messias Bolsonaro, President, Brazil:
“However, the sensationalist attacks we have suffered from much of the international media due to the Amazon fires have aroused our patriotic sentiment.”
8. Wide shot, GA
9. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Jair Messias Bolsonaro, President, Brazil:
“It is a fallacy to state that the Amazon is a world heritage; and it is a misconception, as scientists attest, to say that our forest is the lung of the world. Resorting to these fallacies, some countries, instead of helping, have followed the lies of the media and behaved disrespectfully, with a colonialist spirit.”
10. Med shot, French delegation
11. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Jair Messias Bolsonaro, President, Brazil:
“The United Nations has played a key role in overcoming colonialism and cannot accept this mentality to return to these halls and corridors under any pretext.”
12. Med shot, German delegation
13. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Jair Messias Bolsonaro, President, Brazil:
“I reiterate my position that any initiative to help or support the preservation of the Amazon rainforest, or other biomes, must be treated in full respect of Brazilian sovereignty.”
14. Wide shot, audience applause
15. Wide shot, Bolsonaro walks away
Addressing the annual gathering of world leaders at the United Nations Headquarters, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro rejected the “sensationalist attacks” he said his country has received following a surge in fires occurring in the Amazon rainforest.
Bolsonaro explained that “this time of the year, dry weather and winds favour both spontaneous and criminal fires.”
He said, “it is also important to mention that indigenous and local populations also use fire as part of their culture and means of survival,” adding that “all countries have their issues. “
The Brazilian President said these perceived attacks from the “international media” have aroused "our patriotic sentiment.”
He said it was “a fallacy to state that the Amazon is a world heritage; and it is a misconception, as scientists attest, to say that our forest is the lung of the world.”
Bolsonaro said “some countries, instead of helping, have followed the lies of the media and behaved disrespectfully, with a colonialist spirit.”
He called on the United Nations not to accept “this mentality to return to these halls and corridors under any pretext” and I reiterated that “any initiative to help or support the preservation of the Amazon rainforest, or other biomes, must be treated in full respect of Brazilian sovereignty.”
More that 80,000 wildfires were reported this year all over the Brazilian territory.
Jair Messias Bolsonaro was elected in October 2018. This was his first address to the General Assembly, where Brazil traditionally speaks first.
