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STORY: UN/ POST 2015 DEVELOPMENT AGENDA
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SOURCE: UNTV
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 15 MAY 2013, NEW YORK
FILE – 2012, UNITED NATIONS NORTH LAWN BUILDING
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations North Lawn Building
15 MAY 2013, NEW YORK
1. Wide shot, British Prime Minister David Cameron approaches microphone
2. Cutaway, journalist taking notes
3. SOUNDBITE (English) David Cameron, Prime minister, United Kingdom:
“We’ve absolutely nailed our collars to the mask with one clear overarching aim, to wend extreme poverty in our world. Over a billion people still live on less the $ US dollars 1.25 a day, getting to the point where no one at all is that poor is no longer a pipe dream, it can and should be one of the great achievements of our time. It is doable and it means that by 2030 everybody will have what we in Britain already consider a birth right, drinking water, electricity, health care and a place at school.”
4. Cutaway, journalist taking notes
5. SOUNDBITE (English) David Cameron, Prime minister, United Kingdom:
“Our report will make clear that we need to tackle the causes of poverty, not just the symptoms. Above all we need to focus on economic growth driven by a strong private sector as the most powerful engine there is to lift people out of poverty. We need a recognition that development has to be sustainable for the planet, for the long term, but there is this new commitment to strong institutions and governance because these are essential to end conflict, to protect the rule of law to stamp out corruption and insecurity and to hold governments accountable.”
6. Cutaway, journalist taking notes
7. SOUNDBITE (English) David Cameron, Prime minister, United Kingdom:
“Finally we agreed that our report must be clear, it must be compelling, it must be accessible so that people around the world including thousands who contributed their views can debate it, can implement it and can demand action from us all. So we’ll be finalizing clear and challenging goals and we’ll be setting out illustrative examples of the goals we believe should be there and what should succeed the Millennium Development goals after 2015.”
8. Cutaway, journalist taking notes
9. Wide shot, Prime Minister David Cameron
Noting that over a billion people still lived on less the $US dollars 1.25 a day, United Kingdom’s Prime Minister David Cameron said that “getting to the point where no one at all is that poor is no longer a pipe dream, it can and should be one of the great achievements of our time.”
Cameron was talking to journalists today (15 May) at the United Nations (UN) in New York following a meeting with members of the High-Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda that he co-chairs.
Cameron said that the panel’s report would be clear on the need to “tackle the causes of poverty, not just the symptoms.”
He also pointed out the importance to focus on an economic growth driven by what he called “a strong private sector”. He said “We need a recognition that development has to be sustainable for the planet, for the long term”, adding that there was a new commitment to strong institutions and governance because “these are essential to end conflict, to protect the rule of law to stamp out corruption and insecurity and to hold governments accountable.”
Cameron said that the panel agreed that their report must be clear, and added that “it must be compelling, it must be accessible so that people around the world including thousands who contributed their views can debate it, can implement it and can demand action from us all.”
The High-Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda was appointed last July by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia are also co-chairs.