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STORY: UN HELSINKI PROCESS
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SOURCE: UNTV
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LANGUAGE: CH 1 ENGLISH / NATS
CH 2 ENGLISH / NATS
1. Pan right, exterior, United Nations headquarters
2. Wide shot, Mr. Erkki Tuomioja, Foreign Minister of Finland seated at podium
3. Cutaway, reporters
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Mr. Erkki Tuomioja, Foreign Minister of Finland:
"It is a problem I believe, in almost every country and every culture. I don't think we should pinpoint any particular, there are countries where certainly it's more exaggerated than in others. But, even in Finland, which is a Nordic country where gender equality in general is recognized on a high level, domestic violence against women continues to remain a persistent problem. We recognize that I think every government should take this seriously and recognize it and that will be one of the themes that we will in more detail take up at the Helsinki Conference."
4. Cutaway, reporters
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Mr. Erkki Tuomioja, Foreign Minister of Finland:
"Getting development equally, in all parts of the world, particularly those who have been left out in recent years will enhance, will be to the benefit of world economy as a whole. So if there is stagnation, which we do not actually yet experience. But if we do have problems in the north, leaving the south unattended is not going to help us. On the contrary, the health and growth and development in the south
will be helped also to the north."
6. Wide shot, panel
7. Cutaway, reporters
8. Wide shot, panel
The High-Level Helsinki Group's Co-Chair, Mr. Erkki Tuomioja, Foreign Minister of Finland, and Deputy Co-Chair, Mr. Abdulkader Shareef, Deputy Foreign Minister of Tanzania, urged for the co-coordinated action of all stakeholders to achieve the objectives of the UN Millennium Declaration whilst also extending the horizon for analysis and action beyond the scope of the Millennium Development Goals.
Messrs Tuomioja and Shareef spoke at the meeting of the Helsinki Group which convened for its fourth and final time on 27-29 April in New York. The High-Level Helsinki Group addresses the inter-connectedness of the five issue areas of the Millennium Declaration and their use as a basis for looking beyond 2015.
Afterwards, Mr. Tuomioja addressed reporters at a press briefing. On the issue of domestic violence, he said no particular country should be pinpointed and that even in Finland domestic violence against women is a consistent problem. He said that every government should take this issue seriously and that it would be one of the themes will be taken up at the Helsinki Conference.
As for economic solutions, Tuomioja said that getting development equally to all parts of the world, particularly those which have been left out in recent years will benefit the world economy as a whole.
The Group recognizes that effective global problem solving can only be reached through new kinds of goal oriented partnerships between governments, the private sector and international and civil society organizations. The Group's Co-Chairs stated that it is through working together that different stakeholders can pool the diverse resources available for change and thereby multiply their efforts at reaching a more equitable and sustainable future.
The multi-stakeholder approach to global problem solving should be made more permanent and developed into a strategic alliance to foster creative partnerships amongst stakeholders. In order to achieve this, the Helsinki Group introduced a Round Table approach through which people with different perspectives collaborate with the shared goal of generating both workable policies and political will.
This approach will be tested in practice at the Helsinki Conference, the culmination of the Helsinki Process, which will take place on 7-9 September 2005. The conference will bring together some 400 key stakeholders from governments, international organizations, the business community, municipalities, civil society, trade unions, academia and public policy research institutions. Roundtables at the Conference will be based on the recommendations of the Helsinki Process and seek to identify steps needed for their implementation.