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STORY: MUNICH / GUTERRES SECURITY CONFERENCE
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SOURCE: EBU
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 16 FEBRUARY 2024, MUNICH, GERMANY
1. Wide shot, Secretary-General António Guterres at the podium
2. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Today's global order is not working for everyone. In fact, I would go further and say it's not working for anyone. Our world is facing existential challenges, but the global community is more fragmented and divided than at any time during the past 75 years.”
3. Wide shot, Guterres at the podium
4. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“When power relations are vague, the dangers of aggressive opportunism and miscalculation grow. And today we see countries doing whatever they like with no accountability. Impunity seems to be the name of the game. And so, we must all be determined to re-establish the primacy of the rule of law.”
5. Wide shot, Guterres at the podium
6. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“The situation in Gaza is an appalling indictment of the deadlock in global relations. The level of death and destruction is shocking in itself, and the war is also spilling over borders across the region and affecting global trade. Humanitarian aid operation is now on life support. It's barely functioning.”
7. Wide shot, Guterres at the podium
8. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“I've repeatedly called for an immediate and unconditional release of all hostages and a humanitarian ceasefire. That is the only way to massively scale up a delivery in Gaza. And this must be the foundation for concrete and irreversible steps towards a two-state solution, based on international law and the United Nations resolutions.”
9. Med shot, delegates
10. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“We desperately need a just and sustained peace for Ukraine, for Russia and for the world. But the peace in line with UN charter and international law, which establishes the obligation to respect the territorial integrity of sovereign states. And around the world from the Sahel to Libya and Sudan, from the Great Lakes to the Horn of Africa, from Yemen to Myanmar, we need concerted efforts to strengthen regional organisations and for global powers to pressure the parties to the war, to come to the peace table and pursue their goals through negotiations.”
11. Wide shot, Guterres at the podium
12. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“We need peace with justice. Today's global financial architecture, based on frameworks agreed nearly 80 years ago, is outdated, dysfunctional and unfair.”
13. Wide shot, Guterres at the podium
14. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations
“The climate crisis is gathering pace. Last year it was the hottest on record. It would be the coolest for many years to come. The next few years are decisive. Emissions must have peaked by next year, 2025, and must fall by 45 percent by 2030. We have the tools. We know what to do. We need to progressively phase out fossil fuels and promote a just and equitable transition to renewable energy, led by the G20 countries that are responsible for 80 percent of global emissions.”
15. Wide shot, Guterres at the podium
16. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations
“It is clear that our world is in deep trouble. Global governance in its present form is entrenching divisions and fuelling discontent. We must work based on just this with renewed urgency and solidarity. There is always an opportunity to create a more inclusive, comprehensive, and effective global order that works for everyone based on international law. A safer world and the bigger pie for all. That is the objectives of the UN summit of the Future in September.”
17. Wide shot, Guterres walks away
Calling for a new global order that works for all, Secretary-General António Guterres in Munich said, “our world is facing existential challenges, but the global community is more fragmented and divided than at any time during the past 75 years.”
Addressing world leaders attending the Munich Security Conference Guterres today (16 Feb) said, “today's global order is not working for everyone. In fact, I would go further and say it's not working for anyone.
The Secretary-General said, “when power relations are vague, the dangers of aggressive opportunism and miscalculation grow. And today we see countries doing whatever they like with no accountability. Impunity seems to be the name of the game. And so, we must all be determined to re-establish the primacy of the rule of law.”
Addressing the conflict in Gaza, he said the situation was “an appalling indictment of the deadlock in global relations.”
Guterres said, “the level of death and destruction is shocking in itself. The war is also spilling over borders across the region and affecting global trade. Humanitarian aid operation is now on life support. It's barely functioning.”
Repeating his call “for an immediate and unconditional release of all hostages and a humanitarian ceasefire,” he said this is “the only way to massively scale up a delivery in Gaza” and must be “the foundation for concrete and irreversible steps towards a two-state solution, based on international law and the United Nations resolutions.”
He warned that an all-out offensive on the city of Rafah – the core of the humanitarian aid operation in Gaza, and where nearly half the population is now sheltering – would be devastating for civilians already on the edge of survival.
Turning to the war triggered by the Russian invasion of Ukraine two years ago, the Secretary-General said, “we desperately need a just and sustained peace for Ukraine, for Russia and for the world. But the peace in line with UN charter and international law, which establishes the obligation to respect the territorial integrity of sovereign states.”
Around the world, he said, “from the Sahel to Libya and Sudan, from the Great Lakes to the Horn of Africa, from Yemen to Myanmar, we need concerted efforts to strengthen regional organisations and for global powers to pressure the parties to the war, to come to the peace table and pursue their goals through negotiations.”
Beyond these and other immediate crises, the international community must strengthen the global peace and security architecture to address threats and challenges that were inconceivable when the UN Charter was drafted, such as the climate crisis, Artificial Intelligence or cyberweapons, he told the Conference.
Guterres said, “we need peace with justice. Today's global financial architecture, based on frameworks agreed nearly 80 years ago, is outdated, dysfunctional and unfair.”
He said, “the climate crisis is gathering pace. Last year it was the hottest on record. It would be the coolest for many years to come. The next few years are decisive. Emissions must have peaked by next year, 2025, and must fall by 45 percent by 2030. We have the tools. We know what to do. We need to progressively phase out fossil fuels and promote a just and equitable transition to renewable energy, led by the G20 countries that are responsible for 80 percent of global emissions.”
To conclude, the Secretary-General said, “it is clear that our world is in deep trouble. Global governance in its present form is entrenching divisions and fuelling discontent. We must work based on just this with renewed urgency and solidarity. There is always an opportunity to create a more inclusive, comprehensive, and effective global order that works for everyone based on international law. A safer world and the bigger pie for all. That is the objectives of the UN summit of the Future in September.”
On the eve of the conference, Guterres visited the Ohel Jakob synagogue at the invitation of the World Jewish Congress, together with Charlotte Knobloch, President of the Jewish Community of Munich and Upper Bavaria and former Vice President of the World Jewish Congress.
