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STORY: GA / ITALY MELONI
TRT: 03:22
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ITALIAN / NATS
DATELINE: 20 SEPTEMBER 2023, NEW YORK CITY
1. Med shot, exterior, flag, United Nations Headquarters
2. Wide shot, Italian President of the Council of Ministers walking to podium
3. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Giorgia Meloni, President of the Council of Ministers, Italy:
“We must reject the utopic and self-serving narrative of those who say that a world without nations, without borders, and without identities, would also be a world without conflicts.”
4. Med shot, Italian delegation
5. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Giorgia Meloni, President of the Council of Ministers, Italy:
“It's a choice to create chaos and spread it. And in this chaos, which produces tens of millions of people potentially searching for better living conditions are infiltrated criminal networks that profit from desperation to collect easy billions. They are the traffickers of human beings who organize the trade of illegal mass immigration.”
6. Wide shot, Italian President of the Council of Ministers at podium
7. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Giorgia Meloni, President of the Council of Ministers, Italy:
“They charge thousands of dollars for trips to Europe, which they sell with brochures as if they were regular travel agencies. But those brochures don't tell you that those trips too often lead to death, to a grave at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea.”
8. Wide shot, Italian President of the Council of Ministers at podium
9. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Giorgia Meloni, President of the Council of Ministers, Italy:
“These are the people that a certain hypocritical approach to immigration has made rich without measure. We want to battle against the mafia in all its forms, and we will battle against this, too. The fact is that the fight against organized crime should be an objective that unites us all and that also invests the United Nations and this place. Can an organization like this, which affirms in its founding act ‘faith in the dignity and worth of the human person,’ really turn a blind eye to this tragedy?”
10. Med shot, Italian delegation
11. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Giorgia Meloni, President of the Council of Ministers, Italy:
“Can we really pretend not to see that no other criminal activity in the world today is more lucrative than the trafficking of migrants, when it is the UN reports themselves that have shown how this business has reached by volumes of money the same level of drug trafficking and far surpassed that of weapons?”
12. Med shot, Italian delegation
13. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Giorgia Meloni, President of the Council of Ministers, Italy:
“Can we really say that it is solidarity to prioritize welcoming not those who really need it most but rather those who have the money to pay these traffickers and allowing the traffickers to establish who has the right to safety? I don’t think so.”
14. Med shot, Italian delegation
15. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Giorgia Meloni, President of the Council of Ministers, Italy:
“Africa needs no charity but to be put in a condition to compete on an equal footing, on strategic investments that can tie our futures together with mutually beneficial projects. In this way, we can offer a serious alternative to mass migration. This alternative is work, training, opportunities for nations of origin, and pathways for legal and agreed migration paths and thus also integration.”
16. Med shot, Italian delegation
Giorgia Meloni, President of the Italian Council of Ministers, said, “We must reject the utopic and self-serving narrative of those who say that a world without nations, without borders, and without identities, would also be a world without conflicts.”
Addressing the General Assembly today (20 Sep), Meloni said, “It's a choice to create chaos and spread it. And in this chaos, which produces tens of millions of people potentially searching for better living conditions are infiltrated criminal networks that profit from desperation to collect easy billions. They are the traffickers of human beings who organize the trade of illegal mass immigration.”
She continued, “They charge thousands of dollars for trips to Europe, which they sell with brochures as if they were regular travel agencies. But those brochures don't tell you that those trips too often lead to death, to a grave at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea.”
The Italian Council of Ministers President stated, “These are the people that a hypocritical approach to immigration has made rich without measure. We want to battle against the mafia in all its forms, and we will battle against this, too. The fact is that the fight against organized crime should be an objective that unites us all and that also invests the United Nations and this place. Can an organization like this, which affirms in its founding act ‘faith in the dignity and worth of the human person,’ really turn a blind eye to this tragedy?”
She asked, “Can we really pretend not to see that no other criminal activity in the world today is more lucrative than the trafficking of migrants, when it is the UN reports themselves that have shown how this business has reached by volumes of money the same level of drug trafficking and far surpassed that of weapons?”
She also asked, “Can we really say that it is solidarity to prioritize welcoming not those who really need it most but those who have the money to pay these traffickers, and allowing the traffickers to establish who has the right to safety? I don’t think so.”
She concluded, “Africa needs no charity but to be put in a condition to compete on an equal footing, on strategic investments that can tie our futures together with mutually beneficial projects. In this way, we can offer a serious alternative to mass migration. This alternative is work, training, opportunities for nations of origin, and pathways for legal and agreed migration paths and thus also integration.”
