UN / NOBEL PEACE PRIZE REAX

STORY: UN / NOBEL PEACE PRIZE REAX
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SOURCE: UNIFEED
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LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 07 OCTOBER 2022, NEW YORK CITY / FILE

SHOTLIST:

FILE - NEW YORK CITY

1. Exterior shot, UN Headquarters

07 OCTOBER 2022, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, journalists, briefing room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“The Secretary-General congratulates Ales Bialiatski and the organizations Memorial and the Center for Civil Liberties on being awarded the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize. As the Nobel Committee cited, this year’s recognition shines a spotlight on the power of civil society to advance peace. Civil society groups are the oxygen of democracy, and catalysts for peace, social progress, and economic growth. They help keep governments accountable and carry the voices of the vulnerable into the halls of power.”
4. Wide shot, Dujarric on podium, journalists, briefing room
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Yet today, civic space is narrowing across the world, the Secretary-General warned. Human rights defenders, women’s rights advocates, environmental activists, journalists, and others face arbitrary arrests, harsh prison sentences, smear campaigns, crippling fines, and violent attacks. As we congratulate this year’s winners, the Secretary-General said, let us pledge to defend the brave defenders of universal values of peace, hope, and dignity.”
6. Wide shot, Dujarric leaving the podium, journalists, briefing room

STORYLINE:
The Secretary-General congratulates Ales Bialiatski and the organizations Memorial and the Center for Civil Liberties on being awarded the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize, a UN spokesperson informed.

Reading the Secretary-General’s statement on the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize, UN spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said to journalists in New York on Friday (7 Oct), that civil society groups are the “oxygen of democracy, and catalysts for peace, social progress, and economic growth. They help keep governments accountable and carry the voices of the vulnerable into the halls of power.”

He continued, “Yet today, civic space is narrowing across the world, the Secretary-General warned.”

Dujarric concluded, “As we congratulate this year’s winners, the Secretary-General said, let us pledge to defend the brave defenders of universal values of peace, hope, and dignity.”