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STORY: MADRID / ONE THOUSAND DAYS TO THE MDGS
TRT: 3.08
SOURCE: UN MILLENNIUM CAMPAIGN
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 04 APRIL 2013, MADRID, SPAIN
1. Med shot, Secretary-General ban Ki-moon enters venue
2. Zoom in, photo-op with youth and Ban Ki-moon and Ban Soon-taek
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“We have a very limited time, one thousand days. What should we do in one thousand day? First of all we should accelerate the forthcoming one thousand days and we have to bridge the gap. Close the gap.”
4. Wide shot, youth listening
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Practically speaking and frankly we may not be able to meet all the targets, the score cards are good in some countries, but in some countries still very much uneven. Therefore we have to be very practical. That is way I have already initiated together with the members states to think beyond the 2015, what we call post 2015 development agenda. This is going to be sustainable development goals. The member states have already agreed, in terms of social area, economic area or environmental area all these three dimensions must be addressed comprehensively in a sustainable way. This is our vision.”
6. Cutaway, youth listening
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Without educating properly, good education then how can we ensure that we will have educated, skilled persons, human resources. All these natural resources or technology cannot be developed without educated, talented and skilled persons. Therefore I believe that education can be a foundation of everything on the basis of which we can promote.”
8. Cutaway, Mrs. Ban Soon-taek, Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson, UNFPA Executive Director Osotimehin Babatunde, and UNESCO’s Director-General Irina Bokova listening
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Another important area energy, energy. Can you imagine that without electricity or other sources of energy can we address all these issues; food security, can you have good agriculture or agricultural production. Can we promote this all nutrition or how can you cure and treat patients, sick people in hospitals or medical facilities. All these transportation; all this urbanization, water issues. You cannot do anything. So I believe that energy and education they can be called the golden thread. All these issues are intertwined, interconnected.”
10. Various shots, Ban talking to young audience
As part of his agenda in Spain, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon met yesterday (4 April) with young people from the Spanish and European Youth Councils to mark the one thousand days leading up to the target date for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2015.
Ban stressed to the youth attending the meeting that “we have a very limited time, one thousand days.”
He asked what should the UN do in one thousand days? He answered: “we have to bridge the gap. Close the gap.”
The eight time-bound MDGs address poverty and hunger, education, gender equality, child mortality, maternal health, combating AIDS, malaria and other diseases, environmental sustainability, and a global partnership for development.
According to UN figures, since the MDGs were adopted by all UN Member States in 2000, global extreme poverty rate has been cut in half. A record number of children are in primary school, with the number of girls equalling the boys for the first time.
Still, Ban said, “practically speaking” all the targets may not be reached. He said, “the score cards are good in some countries,” but “uneven” in others.
He said that there was a need to be practical at this point, and that he had asked “member states to think beyond” 2015.
Social, economic, and environmental areas, he said, “all these three dimensions must be addressed comprehensively in a sustainable way. This is our vision.”
At the same time, according to Ban, natural resources and technology could not be developed without “educated, talented and skilled persons”. And he added: “therefore I believe that education can be a foundation of everything.”
Ban ended his encounter with the young people present by stressing the important of energy,
He said: “can you imagine that without electricity or other sources of energy can we address all these issues; food security, can you have good agriculture or agricultural production. Can we promote this all nutrition or how can you cure and treat patients, sick people in hospitals or medical facilities. All these transportation; all this urbanization, water issues. You cannot do anything. So I believe that energy and education they can be called the golden thread. All these issues are intertwined, interconnected.”
