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STORY: UN / PALAU OCEANS
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SOURCE: UNTV
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 4 FEBRUARY 2014, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
4 FEBRUARY 2014, NEW YORK CITY
2. Various shots, President Remengesau of Palau’s arrival
3. Med shot, journalists
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Tommy E. Remengesau Jr, President of the Republic of Palau:
“This afternoon I will definitely declare Palau’s intention to make the 200 EEZ zone of Palau a 100 percent marine sanctuary, in other words, no commercial fishing within the territorial waters of Palau. You may ask why, why are you doing this? And again, it makes every sense for our sustainability as a people, as an island nation, and as a community.”
5. Med shot, journalists
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Tommy E. Remengesau Jr, President of the Republic of Palau:
“It doesn’t matter where you live around the world; we are all connected somehow and are impacted by what we do to the oceans and the health of the oceans and the seas. And so it is important that the United Nations in the next Millennium Development Goals, really put a stand alone policy on this.”
7. Close up, photographer
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Tommy E. Remengesau Jr, President of the Republic of Palau:
“There’s been a tremendous amount of what we call unpredictable weather patterns that bring typhoons and storms and all kinds of destructive forces to the islands. We had had problem of sea level rises, ocean acidification; it’s everywhere.”
9. Close up, photographer
10. Wide shot, end of presser
The President of the Republic of Palau, Tommy E. Remengesau Jr., today (4 Feb) announced his intention to close Palau’s territorial waters to commercial fishing.
Remengesau said Palau’s 200 nautical miles Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) will be declared a “100 percent marine sanctuary, in other words, no commercial fishing within the territorial waters of Palau.”
He said the proposal “makes every sense for our sustainability as a people, as an island nation, and as a community.”
The Palau President noted that island nations in particular have been severely affected by climate change but said it did not matter “where you live around the world, we are all connected somehow and are impacted by what we do to the oceans and the health of the oceans and the seas.”
For this reason, he reiterated his call for a “stand alone” UN Sustainable Development Goal on oceans and seas.
Remengesau, said the effects of human activity on the oceans are “everywhere,” including sea level rise, ocean acidification, and unpredicatable weather patterns “that bring typhoons and storms and all kinds of destructive forces to the islands.”
Later in the day, Remengesau delivered a keynote address to a special event, “Healthy Oceans and Seas: A Way Forward,” an open discussion among world leaders, UN Permanent Representatives, financial institutions and civil society on the future of the world’s oceans and seas.
