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STORY: UN / FINANCING AND DEVELOPMENT
TRT: 2.09
SOURCE: UNTV / UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: CH 1 ENGLISH / NATS
CH 2 ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 27 JUNE 2005, NEW YORK CITY
1. Med shot, UN flag
2. Wide shot, panel
3. Cutaway, press
4.SOUNDBITE (English) Hilary Benn, British Member of Parliament and Secretary of State for International Development, United Kingdom:
"We need some changes in the UN humanitarian system to be more effective, in enabling the UN to do the job only it can do in responding to emergencies. And I hope looking forward to the Millennium Summit, that we ought to be able to make progress on renewing and revamping the revolving fund, (the SURF Survivors Fund for Rwanda), to give it a lot more resources so that the UN system, one, has the money when crisis arise, to be able to respond quickly and secondly to deal with the other problem which is that some humanitarian crisis get a lot of publicity and are well covered and therefore well funded, other humanitarian crisis get very little publicity and therefore are not very well funded and yet the needs of the people caught up in those crisis for food, water, shelter, sanitation healthcare, education is exactly the same."
5. Cutaway, photographer
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Hilary Benn, British Member of Parliament and Secretary of State for International Development, United Kingdom:
One thing that I am convinced of more than anything else, arising out of my experience in this job now for over a year and a half, is that if we don't tackle poverty and justice and inequality around the globe, we are not going to have a safe and secure world in which to live, wherever it is we happen to call home. And I think that there's always been a group of people in each of our countries who have felt passionately that poverty is a moral outrage and we should do something about it. But I think there is a growing number of people who see the case for doing something about it in the interest of greater stability and security, because states that are fragile contain a lot of people who are poor and we should be putting a lot of effort into trying to support those states, to establish greater stability and security, because it's in the interest not only of the people who live in them, but also of the wider world."
FILE - UNHCR - Darfur
7. Various shots, refugee camp
The General Assembly met this morning (27 June) at the United Nations in New York, to begin its High-level Dialogue on Financing for Development.
The overall focus of the dialogue was the status of worldwide efforts to implement the Monterrey Consensus and the way forward. The two-day meeting will be built around a series of formal and informal meetings and six interactive round-table discussions on issues that include international trade as an engine for development, and mobilizing domestic financial resources for development.
Later, Hilary Benn, Secretary of State for International Development of the United Kingdom, told reporters at a press conference that, at present rates of progress, several Millennium Goals would be reached far too late. He said changes were needed in the UN humanitarian system to become more effective, so that it is able to perform the job as it does when responding to emergency situations.
Benn also said if we don't tackle poverty, justice and inequality around the globe, then we will not have a safe and secure world in which to live.
Turning to debt relief, he said the Group of 8 finance ministers had already agreed that heavily indebted poor countries would receive 100 per cent cancellation on debts to the World Bank, the IMF and the African Development Bank. If agreed by other donors and the Boards of the World Bank, the IMF and the African Development Bank in September, the deal could be worth up to $55 billion to 38 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. In the end, however, the future of developing countries would rest in their own hands, as delivered good governance, created strong institutions and raised their own finance.
The Monterrey Consensus is the landmark agreement adopted by world leaders in Mexico at the 2002 International Conference on Financing for Development. It calls for the resources to meet the Millennium Development Goals and the conditions that will enable freer trade, more foreign investment, debt relief and efficient government. The Millennium Goals, endorsed by heads of State at the United Nations Millennium Summit in 2000, are a set of qualified targets ranging from halving extreme poverty to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education, all by 2015.
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