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STORY: UN / YOUTH FORUM GUTERRES
TRT: 01:45
SOURCE: UNIFEED
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 20 APRIL 2021, NEW YORK CITY
FILE – NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior UN Headquarters
20 APRIL 2021, NEW YORK CITY
2. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“The Youth Forum of the Economic and Social Council is the primary space at the United Nations for checking the pulse of the world’s young people. War, COVID-19, and the climate crisis are compounding the challenges that youth face today. But young people are also leading the way in the fight against climate change, standing up for racial justice and gender equality. They are holding leaders to account. They are at the forefront of our efforts to secure a more inclusive, peaceful, and prosperous future for all. My message to you is to keep pushing, to keep mobilizing, and to keep bringing your ideas to the table. We have no time to lose. Through the UN Youth Strategy, we are committed to working for and with young people. I thank my Envoy on Youth, UN entities, and UN Country teams, youth organizations, and Member States for working to ensure that our actions are guided by the perspectives and energy of young people. But we can, and we must do more. My report on “Our Common Agenda” proposes a series of recommendations to strengthen and deepen solidarity with youth and future generations and build a more networked, inclusive, and effective multilateralism. This includes a summit on Transforming Education in September, in which I encourage your full and active engagement. It also includes the creation of a new UN Youth Office that will upgrade engagement with young people across our work. Meaningful, diverse, and effective youth participation – inside the United Nations and far beyond – is essential to advancing human rights, addressing the climate crisis, and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Thank you for your support.”
FILE – NEW YORK CITY
3. Wide shot, exterior UN Headquarters, flags
“Through the UN Youth Strategy, we are committed to working, for and with young people,” UN Chief said today (20 Apr). “But we can, and we must do more,” he added.
In a video message at the Youth Forum of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), Secretary-General António Guterres said that young people are leading the fight against climate change, standing up for racial justice and gender equality and that “They are holding leaders to account.”
He also said that they are at the forefront of “our efforts to secure a more inclusive, peaceful, and prosperous future for all.”
He added, “My message to you is to keep pushing, to keep mobilizing, and to keep bringing your ideas to the table. We have no time to lose.”
He reminded that his report on “Our Common Agenda” proposes a series of recommendations to strengthen and deepen solidarity with youth and future generations and build a more networked, inclusive, and effective multilateralism.
This includes a summit on Transforming Education in September, “in which I encourage your full and active engagement,” he said.
The report also includes the creation of a new UN Youth Office that will upgrade engagement with young people across our work.
“Meaningful, diverse, and effective youth participation – inside the United Nations and far beyond – is essential to advancing human rights, addressing the climate crisis, and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals,” he concluded.
