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STORY: UN / FFD4 PRESSER
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DATELINE: 25 JUNE 2025, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior, United Nations Headquarters
25 JUNE 2025, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, press briefing room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Amina J. Mohammed, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General:
“In Sevilla, this offers us a chance to change course, to catalyze investment, but also to address debt and sustainable development. To reform the rules of the system and to put people's needs at the center. We first promoted that in the Pact of the Future, with the call for renewed international financial architecture.”
4. Wide shot, press briefing room
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Amina J. Mohammed, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General:
“In the Sevilla commitment, the political agreements to be adopted by heads of State and government next week is an important achievement. We didn't vote. We got to consensus. And I think that's really another signal that Member states were able to pull that together. And it didn't look like that a few months ago. And it does provide a renewed effort for the global framework on finance development.”
6. Wide shot, press briefing room
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Amina J. Mohammed, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General:
M “First, I think when we say catalyze investments, that push to triple lending, by multilateral development banks so that countries can do more development, is a big plus. The goal that each of the countries reaching at least 15 percent of tax to GDP again important. This is backed by commitment to double international support to countries to strengthen their tax systems. Domestic resources are needed to ensure we make the impact with people and the environment in consideration and tax is important to that at that level.”
8. Wide shot, press briefing room
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Amina J. Mohammed, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General:
“The second is addressing debt, as I said, we with the debt clauses for climate, I think important again in many crisis that we will begin to see on the level of climate, what are those responsible responses that we can have for our small island developing States and other vulnerable communities. The formation of a borrowers club to strengthen countries voices in the debt architecture and minimize the cost of crisis in people's lives. It's not new, but it is now something that will happen, and we will follow through from Sevilla to ensure that that is put in place.”
10. Wide shot, press briefing room
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Amina J. Mohammed, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General:
“The third is reforming the system, again here, coming up with a global playbook for Special Drawing Rights, to get emergency funds where they are needed faster and fairer. It is a trigger response to when we have this crisis and we're not negotiating over time, in an emergency situation that you would have the ability to say where the SDR (Special Drawing Rights) could go.”
12.Wide shot, press briefing room
13. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Héctor Gómez Hernández, Permanent Representative of Spain to the United Nations:
“This conference is an appeal to action, and we have the extraordinary opportunity to send a very strong message to defend the international community, to its commitment to the multilateral system. It is a time at which there are great challenges. So we must encourage Member States the consensus-based approval of the final document, which will be carried out at the Sevilla conference, is a very important message in favor of multilateralism and global solidarity.”
14. Wide shot, press briefing room
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Chola Milambo, Permanent Representative of Zambia to the United Nations:
“Now, the heavy lifting begins. As we transition to the next phase and arguably the most critical, which is implementation. This will require multilateral cooperation. The challenges we face are too significant for any State to resolve alone. I'm very encouraged by the flexibility and commitment demonstrated by the United Nations Member States approving this Sevilla commitment by consensus.”
16. Wide shot, press briefing room
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Amina J. Mohammed, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General:
“When one important Member State walks out of the room on incredibly important issues to billions of people, it is regrettable, but that doesn't stop us continuing to engage with that Member State and to convince them that this is not the right way to go. This is not what investing in people and the environment for which they have many proposals to do so. I mean, the United States believes that responsible development is important. Responsible development is meeting the commitments of the SDGs. And so I think that while we have them not attend Sevilla, I think that there is the day after Sevilla, and the day after Sevilla will be implementing many of the commitments from Sevilla. And that's where we will engage again, with the US and hope that we can make the case that, they be part of the success of pulling millions of people out of poverty and attaining the SDGs.”
18. Wide shot, press briefing room
Ahead of the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FFD4), UN deputy chief Amina J. Mohammed said that the Conference offers a chance to “change course, to catalyze investment, but also to address debt and sustainable development. To reform the rules of the system and to put people's needs at the center.”
The Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FFD4) to take place in Sevilla, Spain, from 30 June to 3 July 2025, will bring together world leaders to advance solutions to financing challenges threatening the achievement of sustainable development. Governments, international organizations, financial institutions, businesses and civil society will come together to commit to financing future through a renewed global framework for financing for development.
The Conference is expected to adopt the Compromiso de Sevilla, an intergovernmentally negotiated outcome, which was approved for adoption by consensus at the Fourth Preparatory Committee Meeting for FFD4 on 17 June.
The Deputy Secretary-General told reporters today (25 Jun), “In the Sevilla commitment, the political agreements to be adopted by heads of State and government next week is an important achievement.”
“We didn't vote. We got to consensus. And I think that's really another signal that Member states were able to pull that together. And it didn't look like that a few months ago. And it does provide a renewed effort for the global framework on finance development,” Mohammed reiterated.
The Compromiso de Sevilla, the outcome of the FFD4 Conference, aims to first - catalyze investments, “that push to triple lending, by multilateral development banks so that countries can do more development, is a big plus,” the Deputy Secretary-General said, adding that “the goal that each of the countries reaching at least 15 percent of tax to GDP again is important.”
She added, “This is backed by commitment to double international support to countries to strengthen their tax systems. Domestic resources are needed to ensure we make the impact with people and the environment in consideration and tax is important to that at that level.”
The Deputy Secretary-General added that the second is addressing debt. “The formation of a borrowers club to strengthen countries voices in the debt architecture and minimize the cost of crisis in people's lives. It's not new, but it is now something that will happen, and we will follow through from Sevilla to ensure that that is put in place,” she said.
“The third is reforming the system, again here, coming up with a global playbook for Special Drawing Rights, to get emergency funds where they are needed faster and fairer,” Mohammed said, adding that “it is a trigger response to when we have this crisis and we're not negotiating over time, in an emergency situation that you would have the ability to say where the SDR (Special Drawing Rights) could go.”
Spanish Ambassador Héctor Gómez Hernández whose country is the host of the Conference told reporters, “This conference is an appeal to action, and we have the extraordinary opportunity to send a very strong message to defend the international community, to its commitment to the multilateral system. It is a time at which there are great challenges.”
“We must encourage Member States the consensus-based approval of the final document, which will be carried out at the Sevilla conference, is a very important message in favor of multilateralism and global solidarity,” Ambassador Hernández reiterated.
Zambian Ambassador Chola Milambo spoke on behalf of the co-facilitators of the outcome document – Mexico, Nepal, Norway and Zambia.
He highlighted the Conference will mark the beginning of implementation of the outcome document, signaling a new phase of collective action on financing for development.
He said, “I'm very encouraged by the flexibility and commitment demonstrated by the United Nations Member States approving this Sevilla commitment by consensus.”
Asked about the United States withdrawing from the negotiation, the Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed said, “When one important Member State walks out of the room on incredibly important issues to billions of people, it is regrettable, but that doesn't stop us continuing to engage with that Member State and to convince them that this is not the right way to go.”
She continued, “the United States believes that responsible development is important. Responsible development is meeting the commitments of the SDGs.”
The Deputy Secretary-General added, “I think that there is the day after Sevilla, and the day after Sevilla will be implementing many of the commitments from Sevilla. And that's where we will engage again, with the US and hope that we can make the case that, they be part of the success of pulling millions of people out of poverty and attaining the SDGs.”
