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STORY: BRAZIL / ANTONIO MARIA COSTA
TRT: 2:55
SOURCE: UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 18 APRIL 2010, SALVADOR-BAHIA, BRAZIL
1. Pan right, poster of the 12th Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice at the Convention Center of Salvador
2. Wide shot, exterior convention center of Salvador
3. Various shots, journalists inside the Convention Center of Salvador
4. Pan right, people outside the plenary hall
5. Med shot, Antonio Maria Costa inside plenary room walking toward podium
6. Wide shot, Antonio Maria Costa greeting delegates at the podium
7. Med shot, Antonio Maria Costa sitting down
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Antonio Maria Costa, Executive Director, United Nations Office for Crime and Drugs (UNODC):
“The size of these international crime groups, they have acquired dimensions that in economic terms it could be comparable operatively and exceed the GNP (Gross National Product), perhaps even the majority of the United Nations member states; and their firepower, I just came back from Mexico and it was illustrated to me the firepower of these groups; they use military great weapons, all of them of course illicitly smuggled into Mexico, and indeed have an ability to fight not only national police but even national armies, as has been happening in a number of countries.”
9. Med shot, Antonio Maria Costa delivering statement
10. Med shot, delegates applauding
11. Med shot, Antonio Maria Costa taking his seat
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Antonio Maria Costa, Executive Director, United Nations Office for Crime and Drugs (UNODC):
“Organized crime is a threat to security. Its not only a threat to individuals on the streets and the individual businesses, violence against individuals, violence against property, but has become so endemic and so highly structured, and so powerful in terms of the means it can mobilize that has become a threat to the stability, to the security of nations, and entire regions. The Caribbean, certainly mezzo (central) America, Mexico in Central America, West Africa, the Horn of Africa, part of Central Asia, West Asia, part of South East Asia; even in the heart of Europe, some of the Balkans regions have been, not now, but have been affected by them.”
13. Various shots, Antonio Maria Costa at Terrorism Guide presentation
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Antonio Maria Costa, Executive Director, United Nations Office for Crime and Drugs (UNODC):
“Fighting crime, and fighting drug trafficking, fighting addiction, and fighting corruption, and fighting money laundering, and fighting human trafficking, fighting piracy, and fighting illegal smuggling of weapons, all myriads of illicit exploitation and so forth, those are definitively inspirational sort of concept that we draw inspirational conclusions, we have to be proactive about all of this, whether these will be ever accomplished I don’t know, it’s very a part of the nature of humanity.”
15. Various shots, at Terrorism Guide presentation
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Antonio Maria Costa, Executive Director, United Nations Office for Crime and Drugs (UNODC):
“If we do not involve, if member states do not involve society at large in fighting against these illnesses of society in one way or another; I’m afraid we will not succeed.”
17. Tracking shot, Antonio Maria Costa leaves Press conference room behind
The Executive Director of the United Nations (UN) Office on Crime and Drugs, told UNifeed yesterday (18 April) that organized crime groups, had acquired dimensions that in economic terms could be comparable or exceed the Gross National Product (GNP) of probably the majority of the United Nations Member States.
Following his address to delegates from around the world at a UN Crime Congress in Salvador, Brazil, where he stressed the urgency to stop organized crime from continuing to cause havoc globally, Antonio Maria Costa told UNifeed during an exclusive interview that the firepower of international organized crime groups was big enough “to fight not only national police but even national armies.”
During the eight days of special meeting and workshops, delegates attending the Congress paid special attention to issues involving children, youth and crime, smuggling of migrants, trafficking in persons, money-laundering, and cyber crime and security.
Costa said that organized crime was a threat to security and that it had become “so endemic and so highly structured, and so powerful in terms of the means it can mobilize that has become a threat to the stability, to the security of nations, and entire regions.”
Commenting on how realistic was the possibility of ending the illegal practices of international crime groups, Costa said that “fighting crime and drug trafficking as well as fighting corruption, and money laundering, and human trafficking, among other crimes were certainly an inspirational concept through which countries could draw inspirational conclusions,” but whether they would ever be accomplished he said that he didn’t know and that “it’s very much a part of the nature of humanity.”
Costa made it very clear that if Member States do not involve society at large in fighting against “these illnesses of society in one way or another, I’m afraid we will not succeed.”
The Congress, hosted by the Brazilian Government, started on 12 April and ended today (19 April).