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STORY: UN / FRANCE PRESSER
TRT: 2:26
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: FRENCH / NATS
DATELINE: 18 SEPTEMBER 2023, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior, United Nations Headquarters
18 SEPTEMBER 2023, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, journalists, press room
3. SOUNDBITE (French) Catherine Colonna, Minister of Foreign Affairs, France:
“The challenges that should bring us together here and elsewhere, are used as geopolitical arms. The energy weapon, you know it, has been used, and now is the food weapon that Russia exploits in a completely unscrupulous blackmail.”
4. Wide shot, speakers, journalists
5. SOUNDBITE (French) Catherine Colonna, Minister of Foreign Affairs, France:
“I started my visit here yesterday, after I arrived, with Cindy H. McCain, the Executive Director of the World Food Programme and I announced that France will be delivering grains from Nigeria and Sudan, grains from Ukraine, grains that Russia is trying to deprive of those in need, notably, the more fragile countries.”
6. Wide shot, speakers, journalists
7. SOUNDBITE (French) Catherine Colonna, Minister of Foreign Affairs, France:
“So, you see, there are those who destroy and threaten and those who build - and that build notably the possibility, for everybody, of feeding themselves. And France is of the latter.”
8. Wide shot, speakers, journalists
9. SOUNDBITE (French) Catherine Colonna, Minister of Foreign Affairs, France:
“This war of aggression chosen by Russia threatens our collective security. This aggression is the negation, the violation of the most fundamental principle of the UN Chart.”
10. Med shot, journalist
11. SOUNDBITE (French) Catherine Colonna, Minister of Foreign Affairs, France:
“If this aggression were to be rewarded, another aggression would occur again, there, or elsewhere. Let’s not doubt it.”
12. Wide shot, speakers, journalists
13. SOUNDBITE (French) Catherine Colonna, Minister of Foreign Affairs, France:
“This week, I will call on all countries that haven’t already done it to endorse the Paris Pact for People and the Planet, which is the result of the Summit held in June.”
14. Wide shot, speakers, journalists
15. SOUNDBITE (French) Catherine Colonna, Minister of Foreign Affairs, France:
“France gained a position in all humanitarian areas… we have every reason to be proud of what we do. We do everything we should and do it more than others.”
16. Wide shot, speakers, journalists
Wide shot, speakers, journalists
Addressing the press today (18 Sep) in New York, Catherine Colonna, Minister of Foreign Affairs of France, said, “The challenges that should bring us together here and elsewhere are used as geopolitical arms.”
She continued, “The energy weapon, you know it, has been used, and now is the food weapon Russia exploits in a completely unscrupulous blackmail.”
The French Minister of Foreign Affairs started her visit to New York by meeting Cindy H. McCain, the World Food Program Executive Director.
Colonna announced that France would deliver grains from Nigeria and Sudan, “grains from Ukraine, grains that Russia is trying to deprive of those in need, notably, the more fragile countries.”
Colonna commented, “So, you see, there are those who destroy and threaten and those who build - and that build notably the possibility, for everybody, of feeding themselves. And France is of the latter.”
She said, “This war of aggression chosen by Russia threatens our collective security. This aggression is the negation, the violation of the most fundamental principle of the UN Chart.”
She stated, “If this aggression were to be rewarded, another aggression would occur again, there or elsewhere. Let’s not doubt it.”
Talking about the international Summit for a New Global Financing Pact held in France in June 2023, Colonna said that this week, she will call on all countries that haven’t already done it to endorse the Paris Pact for People and the Planet.
She concluded, “France gained a position in all humanitarian areas… we have every reason to be proud of what we do. We do everything we should and do it more than others.”
