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UN / GIVE PEACE A CHANCE

Chilean Ambassador Heraldo Munoz announces the collaboration between the U.N. Peacebuilding Commission and Yoko Ono to donate proceeds from John Lennon's "Give Peace a Chance" 40th anniversary digital single to the U.N. Peacebuilding Fund. UNTV

Duration:01:41Date:03 November 2009

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United Nations Television, MAINTENANCE OF PEACE AND SECURITY, CULTURE, ART, LITERATURE AND MUSIC

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STORY: UN / GIVE PEACE A CHANCE
SOURCE: UNTV
TRT:  1.41
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/ NATS

DATELINE: 3 NOVEMBER 2009, NEW YORK CITY/ FILE

SHOTLIST:

FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY

1.	Wide shot, exterior UN building

3 NOVEMBER 2009, NEW YORK CITY

2.	Wide shot, conference room
3.	SOUNDBITE (English) Heraldo Muñoz, Chairman of the Peacebuilding Commission:
“When the TV cameras leave a conflict, when the Blue Helmets also leave, after a peace agreement has been signed, that doesn’t mean that peace will be sustainable over time. And often the fractures, be it political, economic, ethnic, re-emerge and many of these countries relapse into conflict."
4.	Med shot, reporters
5.	SOUNDBITE (English) Heraldo Muñoz, Chairman of the Peacebuilding Commission:
“This is a way of celebrating the uniting spirit and the 40th anniversary of the Plastic Ono Band’s - basically a universal anthem – this song ‘Give Peace a Chance’ that they have decided to donate the net proceeds from the sale of this 40th anniversary digital single to the UN Peacebuilding Commission. It is truly an honor.”
6.	Med shot, photographer
7.	Various shots, Muñoz leaving the dais

FILE - 2 APRIL 2009, NEW YORK CITY

8.	SOUNDBITE (English) Yoko Ono, Artist:
“Eventually – not eventually, very soon – we will live in a world where all of us can live happily in peace, in world peace.”
9.	Various shots, Yoko Ono at the UN with Ambassador Muñoz, USG Kiyo Akasaka and others

STORYLINE:

Chilean Ambassador Heraldo Muñoz announced today (3 November) that proceeds from a re-release of the 1960s anthem “Give Peace a Chance” will be donated to the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund.

Muñoz, Chairman of the Peacebuilding Commission, called for more private-sector aid to countries emerging from conflict, and said that after a peace agreement has been signed and “the TV cameras leave”, political, economic and ethnic fractures often re-emerge “and many of these countries relapse into conflict.”

He announced that Yoko Ono, who co-wrote the song with her late husband John Lennon, had arranged to donate income from the fortieth anniversary digital single to the Fund, which allows relatively quick funding for targeted projects.

Ono and John Lennon’s children, Sean and Julian, partnered with EMI music and Sony ATV music to allow the net proceeds from downloads of the re-release, exclusively available on iTunes, to go to the Fund, from today until 31 December 2009.

The Ambassador celebrated “the uniting spirit” of the Plastic Ono Band’s song, which he called “a universal anthem”. The song was inspired by John Lennon’s off-the-cuff explanation to a reporter of why the couple was protesting the Viet Nam War.  As recorded on 1 June 1969, it included a chorus of some of the best-known peace activists of the time.

Ono, who visited the UN in April when she auctioned an artwork to benefit autism research, said then that she hoped very soon the world will “live happily in peace.”

The Peacebuilding Fund has provided resources for Sierra Leone, Burundi, Central African Republic and Guinea Bissau -- as well as some 14 other countries emerging from conflict.

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