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STORY: UNGA80 / CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
TRT: 02:56
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: FRENCH / NATS
DATELINE: 22 – 24 SEPTEMBER 2025, NEW YORK CITY
22 SEPTEMBER 2025, NEW YORK CITY
1. Med shot, exterior, UNGA sing, UNHQ
24 SEPTEMBER 2025, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, CAR President walking up to rostrum, General Assembly Hall
3. SOUNDBITE (French) Faustin Archange Touadera, President, Central African Republic:
"The Central African Republic proposes strengthening the mechanisms of UN preventive diplomacy by creating a Global Conflict Prevention Fund, financed by the major powers and managed in a transparent manner."
4. Wide shot, CAR President at rostrum
5. SOUNDBITE (French) Faustin Archange Touadera, President, Central African Republic:
"To mitigate the harmful effects of climate change, we call for an integrated African mechanism for food security and climate, supported by the UN, to reduce the link between resource scarcity and conflicts. We demand structural and stable financing of peace operations in Africa, based on mandatory contributions and not on voluntarism."
6. Wide shot, CAR President at rostrum
7. SOUNDBITE (French) Faustin Archange Touadera, President, Central African Republic:
"It is not the UN that is tired: it is the Member States who, by lacking political will, block its action."
8. Wide shot, CAR President at rostrum
9. SOUNDBITE (French) Faustin Archange Touadera, President, Central African Republic:
“We must imagine a global initiative for the reconstruction of fragile States. Because a world that leaves some of its members shattered cannot claim universal peace."
10.Med shot, CAR delegation
11. SOUNDBITE (French) Faustin Archange Touadera, President, Central African Republic:
"To this institutional reconstruction must then be added a strong commitment to our planet. This is why we call for a United Nations Pact for the protection of critical ecosystems, a pact that links climate, biodiversity and human rights."
12. Wide shot, CAR President at rostrum
13. SOUNDBITE (French) Faustin Archange Touadera, President, Central African Republic:
"It is time to dream big for Africa. This is the meaning of the idea of a Green Development Corridor in Central Africa, which combines modern infrastructure, clean energy and regional integration."
14. Wide shot, CAR President at rostrum
15. SOUNDBITE (French) Faustin Archange Touadera, President, Central African Republic: "Because Africa is not a continent to be assisted, it is a continent to be revealed. It awaits neither charity nor compassion, but fair and courageous partnerships."
16. Wide shot, CAR President at rostrum
17. SOUNDBITE (French) Faustin Archange Touadera, President, Central African Republic: "Africa must have two permanent seats with veto power, not as a favor but as justice, not as a privilege, but as a necessity."
18. Med shot, CAR delegation clapping
President of Central African Republic (CAR) Faustin Archange Touadera said, "It is time to dream big for Africa.”
Addressing the General Assembly’s General Debate today (24 Sep), "The Central African Republic proposes strengthening the mechanisms of UN preventive diplomacy by creating a Global Conflict Prevention Fund, financed by the major powers and managed in a transparent manner."
He also said, "To mitigate the harmful effects of climate change, we call for an integrated African mechanism for food security and climate, supported by the UN, to reduce the link between resource scarcity and conflicts. We demand structural and stable financing of peace operations in Africa, based on mandatory contributions and not on voluntarism."
It stated, "It is not the UN that is tired: it is the Member States who, by lacking political will, block its action."
He continued, “We must imagine a global initiative for the reconstruction of fragile States. Because a world that leaves some of its members shattered cannot claim universal peace."
He added, "To this institutional reconstruction must then be added a strong commitment to our planet. This is why we call for a United Nations Pact for the protection of critical ecosystems, a pact that links climate, biodiversity and human rights."
He said, "It is time to dream big for Africa. This is the meaning of the idea of a Green Development Corridor in Central Africa, which combines modern infrastructure, clean energy and regional integration."
He stressed, "Because Africa is not a continent to be assisted, it is a continent to be revealed. It awaits neither charity nor compassion, but fair and courageous partnerships."
He also said that at the UN Security Council, “Africa must have two permanent seats with veto power, not as a favor but as justice, not as a privilege, but as a necessity."
