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Annalena Baerbock (President of the General Assembly) - Geneva Press Briefing
The President of the General Assembly Annalena Baerbock will brief about her address to the Human Rights Council and her priorities for the remainder of the 80th session, including the UN80 reform initiative, the selection and appointment process of the next UN Secretary-General, and defending the UN Charter.
UN General Assembly President Annalena Baerbock
TRT: 3 min 02s
SOURCE: UNTV CH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
ASPECT RATIO: 16:9
DATELINE: 24 FEBRUARY 2025 GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
Speaker:
- Annalena Baerbock, President of the UN General Assembly
SHOTLIST
- Exterior wide, UN Geneva flag alley.
- Wide, podium shot.
- SOUNDBITE (English) – Annalena Baerbock, President of the UN General Assembly: “Four years ago, people in Europe woke up in another world because generations like mine have always had the privilege to live a life in peace. But this changed four years ago with the full invasion of Russia, of the neighbouring country of Ukraine.”
- Wide, Annalena Baerbock, President of the UN General Assembly speaking to journalists.
- SOUNDBITE (English) – Annalena Baerbock, President of the UN General Assembly: “I urge Member States to uphold human rights not only here in Geneva or New York, but also at the national level; in Gaza and the Occupied Palestinian Territory, in Ukraine, Sudan and Myanmar and so many other places around the world, everywhere, every day.”
- Wide, Annalena Baerbock, President of the UN General Assembly addressing room, photographers, journalists.
- SOUNDBITE (English) – Annalena Baerbock, President of the UN General Assembly: “Human rights are fundamental to the UN; not new demands, not optional. As we are celebrating also the 80th year of the General Assembly and very soon of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, there have been women’s rights as human rights from the beginning, all; it says all humans, not all men.”
- Wide, Annalena Baerbock, President of the UN General Assembly addressing room.
- SOUNDBITE (English) – Annalena Baerbock, President of the UN General Assembly: “193 Member States agreed last year in the resolution on revitalization that they called all together to strongly encourage nomination of women.”
- Wide, photographer taking shot beneath TV screen showing Ms. Baerbock.
- SOUNDBITE (English) – Annalena Baerbock, President of the UN General Assembly: “Sometimes there are strong calls, but the closer the decision comes, then suddenly it's being forgotten that not only there has been a poll, but that half of the population are indeed women.”
- Medium-wide, Annalena Baerbock, President of the UN General Assembly addressing room from podium.
- SOUNDBITE (English) – Annalena Baerbock, President of the UN General Assembly: “In my case, when I was running for different positions, ‘Are you not too young? Others are now rising, well, are you not too old?’ And interestingly enough, these questions are being heard way more for women than for men.”
- Medium-wide, TV screen showing Ms. Baerbock, journalists.
- SOUNDBITE (English) – Annalena Baerbock, President of the UN General Assembly: “Every Member State has to pay its contribution in full and in time. And [$] 160 million are obviously not in full.”
- Medium, photographer taking shot in front of TV screen showing Ms. Baerbock.
- SOUNDBITE (English) – Annalena Baerbock, President of the UN General Assembly: “I would like to underline that this is not simple figures and numbers, this is about people dying. If we have to cut humanitarian aid by 20 per cent, if we have withdrawal, especially from the World Health Organization but and also less funding of the World Food Organization, this means literally that especially infants are dying.”
- Wide, journalists.
- Wide, journalists, photographer.
- Medium, journalist.
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