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STORY: UNGA79 / BANGLADESH
TRT: 03:32
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: BANGLA / NATS
DATELINE: 26, 27 SEPTEMBER 2024, NEW YORK CITY
26 SEPTEMBER 2024, NEW YORK CITY
1. Tilt down, United Nations Headquarters
27 SEPTEMBER 2024, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, the Chief Adviser of the Government of Bangladesh, Muhammad Yunus, walks up to the General Assembly rostrum
3. SOUNDBITE (Bangla) Muhammad Yunus, Chief Adviser, Bangladesh:
“I stand in this parliament of nations thanks to an epochal transformation that Bangladesh witnessed this July and August. The 'power of the ordinary people', in particular our youth, presented to our nation an opportunity to overhaul many of our systems and institutions. The uprising led by the students and youth was initially aimed at ending discrimination. Progressively the movement evolved into a people’s movement. The world eventually saw how people-at-large stood against autocracy, oppression, discrimination, injustice and corruption, both on the streets and online.”
5. Med shot, Bangladesh delegation
6. SOUNDBITE (Bangla) Muhammad Yunus, Chief Adviser, Bangladesh:
“Bangladesh was born because of her people’s profound belief in liberalism, pluralism, secularism. Decades later, our ‘Generation Z’ is making us re-visit and re-imagine the very values that our people Bangladesh stood for back in 1971. As our people also did in 1952, to defend our mother language, Bangla. We believe, the ‘monsoon revolution’ that the world witnessed in Bangladesh in the span of few weeks, may inspire many across communities and countries, to stand for freedom and justice. I would call upon the international community to engage with ‘new Bangladesh’ anew that aims to realize freedom and democracy, beyond letters, for everyone.”
7. Wide shot, Yunus at the rostrum
8. SOUNDBITE (Bangla) Muhammad Yunus, Chief Adviser, Bangladesh:
“We remain committed to supporting the forcibly displaced Rohingyas from Myanmar in Bangladesh. We need continued support of the international community towards the Rohingyas in carrying out the humanitarian operations and their sustainable repatriation. Equally important is to ensure justice for the grave human rights violations committed against the Rohingyas, through the ongoing accountability processes in the ICJ and the ICC.”
9. Various shots, applause
The Chief Adviser of the Government of Bangladesh, Muhammad Yunus, today (27 Sep) told the General Assembly’s General Debate that his country had undergone an “epochal transformation” as the “power of the ordinary people,” in particular youth, presented “an opportunity to overhaul many of our systems and institutions.”
Yunus said this summer’s “uprising led by the students and youth was initially aimed at ending discrimination,” but progressively “evolved into a people’s movement.”
He said “people-at-large stood against autocracy, oppression, discrimination, injustice and corruption, both on the streets and online.”
Yunus, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006, said, “Bangladesh was born because of her people’s profound belief in liberalism, pluralism, secularism. Decades later, our ‘Generation Z’ is making us re-visit and re-imagine the very values that our people Bangladesh stood for back in 1971. As our people also did in 1952, to defend our mother language, Bangla.”
He said the “monsoon revolution that the world witnessed in Bangladesh in the span of few weeks, may inspire many across communities and countries, to stand for freedom and justice,” and called upon the international community “to engage with new Bangladesh anew that aims to realize freedom and democracy, beyond letters, for everyone.”
Turning to the displaced Rohingyas from Myanmar living in Bangladesh, Yunus said, “we need continued support of the international community towards the Rohingyas in carrying out the humanitarian operations and their sustainable repatriation. Equally important is to ensure justice for the grave human rights violations committed against the Rohingyas, through the ongoing accountability processes” in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the International Criminal Court (ICC).
