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STORY: UN / POST 2015 MDG REPORT
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DATELINE: 30 MAY 2013, UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS IN NEW YORK
FILE – RECENT, UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS IN NEW YORK
1. Wide shot, United Nations Headquarters in New York
30 MAY 2013, UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS IN NEW YORK
2. Wide shot, conference table in the press room
3. Wide shot, journalists
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Patricia Espinosa, former ambassador and secretary of foreign affairs from Mexico:
“We did want to say things that were ambitious. We thought that it would not be, it would not serve the purpose and serve our convictions if we were not ambitious.”
5. Cutaway, journalist
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Patricia Espinosa, former ambassador and secretary of foreign affairs from Mexico:
“It is doable. It requires a profound transformation at the national and international levels. And it requires developing the consciousness that the well being of others is really the well being of each and every country in the world.”
7. Cutaway, journalists
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Patricia Espinosa, former ambassador and secretary of foreign affairs from Mexico:
“Of course, while we are starting from the premise that poverty is absolutely unacceptable. We cannot continue living in a world where we still have billions of people living in conditions of extreme poverty. And this is of course a moral obligation.”
9. Cutaway, journalist
10. SOUNDBITE (English) John Podesta, Chair of the Center for American Progress:
“Of course, with the diversity of the panellists, we didn’t agree on everything but I think we finally came together and agreed, and unanimously adopted this report. We hope that it provides a solid basis and a consolidated vision for how the streams on sustainability and poverty eradication can come together in a unified single post-2015 agenda.”
11. Cutaway, journalists
12. Wide shot, conference table in the press room
13. Wide shot, Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, and Mr. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyno, President of Indonesia, and Co-Chair of the High-Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda entering the room and posing in front of the UN sign
14. Med shot, Yudhoyno handing over the report to Ban
15. Pan right, members of the High-Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda posing with Ban Ki-Moon
A report setting out a universal agenda to eradicate extreme poverty by 2030 and to deliver on the promise of sustainable development was delivered today (30 May) by a high level panel to Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon.
The report by the High-Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda builds on the Millennium Development Goals and also emphasizes that the new development agenda after 2015 must be universal— applying to countries in the global North and South alike— and be infused with a spirit of partnership.
At a press conference to mark the launching of the report titled “A New Global Partnership: Eradicate Poverty and Transform Economies through Sustainable Development,” one of the members of the pamel, Ambassador Patricia Espinosa, a former ambassador and secretary of foreign affairs from Mexico, said that the report was ambitious on purpose.
She said: “we thought that it would not be, it would not serve the purpose and serve our convictions if we were not ambitious.”
However, she emphasized that the new development agenda proposed was “doable.” She said that it would require “a profound transformation at the national and international levels” and “ the consciousness that the well being of others is really the well being of each and every country in the world.”
Poverty, she stressed, is “absolutely unacceptable.”
She said that “we cannot continue living in a world where we still have billions of people living in conditions of extreme poverty. And this is of course a moral obligation.”
Another member of the panel, John Podesta, Chair of the Center for American Progress, and an American, said that although panellists did not agree on everything at first, it did eventually “unanimously” adopt the report.
“We hope,” he said, “that it provides a solid basis and a consolidated vision for how the streams on sustainability and poverty eradication can come together in a unified single post-2015 agenda.”
The report was delivered to Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon in the morning at a ceremony attended by Panel co-Chair, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono of Indonesia on behalf of his fellow co-Chairs, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia and Prime Minister David Cameron of the United Kingdom. Ban expressed his gratitude to the co-Chairs for their leadership and to the Panel’s members for their diligence and commitment.
In the report, the 27-member Panel calls for the new post-2015 goals to drive five major transformational shifts: move from “reducing” to ending extreme poverty, leaving no one behind; putting sustainable development at the core of the development agenda; transforming economies to drive inclusive growth; building accountable institutions, open to all, that will ensure good governance and peaceful societies; and forging a new global partnership based on cooperation, equity and human rights.
