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STORY: SEVILLA / FFD4 DEBT INTERVIEW
TRT: 2:43
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICITIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 02 JULY 2025, SEVILLA, SPAIN / 30 JUNE 2025, SEVILLA, SPAIN
30 JUNE 2025, SEVILLA, SPAIN
1. Various drone shots, conference centre
02 JULY 2025, SEVILLA, SPAIN
2. Wide shot, Mahmoud Mohieldin, Special Envoy on Financing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at the interview
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Mahmoud Mohieldin, Special Envoy on Financing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development:
“Now we have an outcome document. Practical, pragmatic, applicable, that we can, push for implementation on all areas related to the finance for development, from mobilization of domestic resources to encouraging the private sector and partnerships to attract foreign direct investment to do more in on trade and to deal as well with the challenging areas related to the reforms of the global financial system, deal as well with the aspects that, we have seen growing, related to the deepening the fragmentation of the global economy.”
4. Wide shot, Mahmoud Mohieldin, Special Envoy on Financing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at the interview
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Mahmoud Mohieldin, Special Envoy on Financing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: Wide shot, Mahmoud Mohieldin, Special Envoy on Financing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at the interview
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Mahmoud Mohieldin, Special Envoy on Financing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development:
“I'm happy as well that one of the most complicated issues with great sensitivity and negative impact on the general public in many developing economies and emerging markets - debt had good prioritization of the discussions. I am very pleased in particular of the reference to, debt solutions and the outcome document.”
7. Wide shot, Mahmoud Mohieldin, Special Envoy on Financing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at the interview
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Mahmoud Mohieldin, Special Envoy on Financing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development:
“One of them about mobilization of new resources for education, for health, for better transport, for better utility services, and for improving our readiness to deal with climate change, including areas related to the pollution that we see in the air, the quality of water that we drink and the deterioration of the quality of land, all of these things from the farmers in villages to inhabitants of cities, they are affecting their daily life.
9. Med shot, Mahmoud Mohieldin, Special Envoy on Financing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at the interview
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Mahmoud Mohieldin, Special Envoy on Financing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development:
“What we do here is not just about the numbers. It's basically about how the burden on that is taken from the people, the quality of education that they deserve, the quality of health that they need, and the essential services that they should be getting.”
11. Wide shot, Mahmoud Mohieldin, Special Envoy on Financing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at the interview
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Mahmoud Mohieldin, Special Envoy on Financing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development:
“In addition to the adequate investments oF the public sector, in partnership with the private sector to do morefor the facilitation of growth and creation of jobs. So we have many aspects of the work here that are impacting directly people.”
13. Wide shot, Mahmoud Mohieldin, Special Envoy on Financing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at the interview
Special Envoy Mahmoud Mohieldin said debt solutions aren't just about numbers, but about easing people's burdens and ensuring access to quality education, healthcare, and essential services.
In an interview today (02 Jul) on the sidelines of the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FFD4), Mahmoud Mohieldin, Special Envoy on Financing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development described the Sevilla Commitment as “practical, pragmatic and applicable.”
The Special Envoy noted that it allows the “push for implementation on all areas related to the finance for development, from mobilization of domestic resources to encouraging the private sector and partnerships to attract foreign direct investment to do more in on trade and to deal as well with the challenging areas related to the reforms of the global financial system, deal as well with the aspects that, we have seen growing, related to the deepening the fragmentation of the global economy.”
Mohieldin also expressed that he is pleased that one of the most complicated issues with great sensitivity and negative impact on the general public in many developing economies and emerging markets - debt had good prioritization of the discussions.
A new mechanism launched today - the Borrowers’ Forum - is being hailed as a milestone in efforts to reform the international debt architecture, supported by the UN and emerging as a key part of the Sevilla Commitment outcome document.
The forum – one of 11 recommendations by the UN Secretary-General’s Expert Group on Debt – will allow countries to share experiences, receive technical and legal advice, promote responsible lending and borrowing standards, and build collective negotiating strength. The Special Envoy is the lead of the Expert Group.
Its launch addresses long-standing calls from the Global South for more inclusive decision-making in a debt system dominated by creditor interests.
“I am very pleased in particular of the reference to debt solutions in the outcome document,” the Special Envoy said.
Asked about how the implementation would affect everyday people, the Special Envoy said, “One of them about mobilization of new resources for education, for health, for better transport, for better utility services, and for improving our readiness to deal with climate change, including areas related to the pollution that we see in the air, the quality of water that we drink and the deterioration of the quality of land, all of these things from the farmers in villages to inhabitants of cities, they are affecting their daily life.”
Mohieldin added that “In addition to the adequate investments of the public sector, in partnership with the private sector to do more for the facilitation of growth and creation of jobs.”
The Borrowers’ Forum is being hailed as a milestone in efforts to reform the international debt architecture, supported by the UN and emerging as a key part of the Sevilla Commitment outcome document.
The forum – one of 11 recommendations by the UN Secretary-General’s Expert Group on Debt – will allow countries to share experiences, receive technical and legal advice, promote responsible lending and borrowing standards, and build collective negotiating strength.
