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STORY: CHILE / GUTERRES VISIT
TRT: 04:26
SOURCE: UNITED NATIONS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: SPANISH / NATS
DATELINE: 02 MAY 2024, SANTIAGO CHILE
1. Med shot, Chilean President Ivan Boric waiting for Secretary-General António Guterres at Palacio de la Moneda
2. Med shot, hug between President Boric and Guterres
3. Med shot, President Boric greeting Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed and Guterres
4. Various Shots, President BORIC, SG, DSG walking into Palacio de la Moneda
5. Various shoots, President Boric and SG Guterres at Salvador Allende´s memorial site
6. Various Shots, President Boric and SG Guterres at Palacio de la Moneda White Room, Salvador Allende´s offices
7. Various shoots, President Boric and SG Guterres listening through a vintage phone President Allende last speech
8. Various shoots, President Boric and SG Guterres hold a conversation at Palacio de la Moneda Red Room with DSG Mohammed, UNRC in Chile María José Torres, Chile´s Foreign Affairs Minister Alberto van Klaveren and ECOSOC President, ambassador Paula Narváez
9. Various shoots, SG Guterres and President Boric press stakeout, at Palacio de la Moneda Patio de las Camelias
10. Wide shot, Secretary-General and President Boric at the press encounter podiums
11. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“For the sake of the people of Gaza, for the sake of the hostages and their families in Israel, and for the sake of the region and the wider world, I strongly encourage the government of Israel and the Hamas leadership to reach an agreement. Without that, I fear the war, with all its consequences both in Gaza and across the region, will worsen exponentially. Recent weeks have seen airstrikes on the Rafah area. A military assault on the city would be an unbearable escalation, killing thousands more civilians and forcing hundreds of thousands to flee. It would have a devastating impact on Palestinians in Gaza, with serious repercussions on the occupied West Bank, and across the wider region.”
12. Wide shot, Secretary-General and President Boric at the press encounter podiums
13. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“During our meeting, we discussed the movement of people and the problem of illicit trafficking, including trafficking in drugs from south to north, and trafficking in arms in the opposite direction. We need regional and global cooperation – and an awareness that States, in combating crime, must not undermine the rule of law or respect for human rights. We also discussed the Summit of the Future, to be held in September. The Summit represents an opportunity for the world to reshape multilateralism in order to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century.”
14. Pan right, Secretary-General and President Boric at the press encounter podiums
15. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“There is also a need to reform international financial institutions, which are obsolete, unrepresentative and incapable of providing adequate support to developing countries. Against a backdrop of high indebtedness among many countries, even middle-income countries, their governments face an impossible dilemma between paying to service their debt, and investing in sectors essential to their sustainable development, such as education and health. Together, we must reform the global financial architecture to ensure that it is truly representative of everyone and can fulfil its role as a global safety net.”
16. Wide shot, Secretary-General and President Boric at the press encounter podiums
Secretary-General António Guterres today (2 May) met with Chilean President Ivan Boric at the Palacio de la Moneda in Santiago and spoke of the “need to reform international financial institutions, which are obsolete, unrepresentative and incapable of providing adequate support to developing countries.”
Guterres, who is in Chile to attend a meeting of the executive directors of the United Nations system, met President Boric at the presidential palace, La Moneda and toured the memorial to President Salvador Allende and the White Room, where his presidential office has been reconstructed.
Guterres and Boric held a bilateral meeting at the palace´s Red Room after which they made statements to the press at Patio Las Camelias.
The Secretary-General called on the government of Israel and the Hamas leadership “to reach an agreement,” without which, “the war, with all its consequences both in Gaza and across the region, will worsen exponentially.”
A military assault on Rafah, he continued, “would be an unbearable escalation, killing thousands more civilians and forcing hundreds of thousands to flee” and “would have a devastating impact on Palestinians in Gaza, with serious repercussions on the occupied West Bank, and across the wider region.”
The Secretary-General told reporters that during his meeting with President Boric, they had discussed “the movement of people and the problem of illicit trafficking, including trafficking in drugs from south to north, and trafficking in arms in the opposite direction.”
He said, “we need regional and global cooperation – and an awareness that States, in combating crime, must not undermine the rule of law or respect for human rights.”
On Summit of the Future, to be held in New York in September, Guterres said it represents “an opportunity for the world to reshape multilateralism in order to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century.”
“Against a backdrop of high indebtedness among many countries,” he said, “even middle-income countries, their governments face an impossible dilemma between paying to service their debt, and investing in sectors essential to their sustainable development, such as education and health.”
To conclude, the Secretary-General said, “together, we must reform the global financial architecture to ensure that it is truly representative of everyone and can fulfil its role as a global safety net.”
