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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / ITALIAN / NATS
DATELINE: 07 MAY 2024, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, United Nations Headquarters
07 MAY 2024, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, UN Secretary-General walking to podium, General Assemby Hall
3. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“As our human family faces growing conflict, a climate crisis, growing inequalities, and disruptive technologies, one thing is clear: we are not prepared. The Security Council is often paralyzed by geopolitical divisions. The global financial architecture is outdated, dysfunctional and unjust.”
4. Wide shot, UN Secretary-General at podium
5. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“We must come together to urgently reshape and strengthen our multilateral institutions.”
6. Wide shot, Italian President walking to podium
7. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Sergio Mattarella, President, Italy:
“The global challenges we face require a collective and organized response from the international community. In this context, the UN is the universal, inclusive, and legitimate institution-platform for addressing these challenges.”
8. Wide shot, Italian President at podium
9. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Sergio Mattarella, President, Italy:
“Critiques are heard, legitimate and sometimes not unfounded, about the functioning of the United Nations. We all would like more from the UN system, without often being willing, in turn, to give more by entrusting it with tasks, responsibilities, and means to enhance its effectiveness, without being subjected to the game of mutual vetoes that risks paralyzing its life.”
10. Med shot, Palestinian delegation
11. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Sergio Mattarella, President, Italy:
“The UN represents the sole platform capable, if adequately supported by its member states, of addressing the challenges threatening peace, security, and development. I would like to emphasize this concept: ‘adequately supported,’ as the United Nations relies on the political will and contributions of its member states. Any endeavor to revitalize its activities and operational methodologies must henceforth derive from the individual commitments of the 193 member states to increase their engagement.”
12. Med shot, Russian delegation
13. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Sergio Mattarella, President, Italy:
“The significant transnational challenges we face, coupled with the increasing number of regional conflicts prone to escalation, far from questioning the role of the United Nations, underscore its indispensable and crucial nature in serving humanity. An increasingly representative and effective UN is needed. Every contrary path, every absence, leads to worsening prospects for the human condition.”
14. Wide shot, delegates
President of Italy Sergio Mattarella, said, “The global challenges we face require a collective and organized response from the international community. In this context, the UN is the universal, inclusive, and legitimate institution-platform for addressing these challenges.”
Addressing the General Assembly today (7 May) on multilateralism Mattarella said, “Critiques are heard, legitimate and sometimes not unfounded, about the functioning of the United Nations. We all would like more from the UN system, without often being willing, in turn, to give more by entrusting it with tasks, responsibilities, and means to enhance its effectiveness, without being subjected to the game of mutual vetoes that risks paralyzing its life.”
He also said, “The UN represents the sole platform capable, if adequately supported by its member states, of addressing the challenges threatening peace, security, and development. I would like to emphasize this concept: ‘adequately supported,’ as the United Nations relies on the political will and contributions of its member states. Any endeavor to revitalize its activities and operational methodologies must henceforth derive from the individual commitments of the 193 member states to increase their engagement.”
He stressed, “The significant transnational challenges we face, coupled with the increasing number of regional conflicts prone to escalation, far from questioning the role of the United Nations, underscore its indispensable and crucial nature in serving humanity. An increasingly representative and effective UN is needed. Every contrary path, every absence, leads to worsening prospects for the human condition.”
The UN Secretary-General also addressed this morning meeting and said, “As our human family faces growing conflict, a climate crisis, growing inequalities, and disruptive technologies, one thing is clear: we are not prepared. The Security Council is often paralyzed by geopolitical divisions. The global financial architecture is outdated, dysfunctional and unjust.”
He stated, “We must come together to urgently reshape and strengthen our multilateral institutions.”
