WHO / WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY CLOSING
30-May-2023
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This year’s World Health Assembly concluded on Tuesday, with the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, describing the event as “long but fruitful”. WHO
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STORY: WHO / WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY CLOSING
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SOURCE: WHO
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 30 MAY 2023, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / FILE
TRT: 4:48
SOURCE: WHO
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 30 MAY 2023, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / FILE
SHOTLIST
RECENT – GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
1. Wide shot, exterior, WHO Headquarters
30 MAY 2023, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO):
“We have come to the end of another long but fruitful World Health Assembly.”
4. Wide shot, Assembly room
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO):
“You can be satisfied that you return home having made many significant resolutions, decisions and strategies, on the vast array of issues on which WHO works.”
6. Med shot, Assembly members
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO):
“The continuing negotiations on the pandemic accord and amendments to the International Health Regulations are an unprecedented opportunity to learn from the mistakes of the COVID-19 pandemic and ensure they are not repeated. Your challenge as Member States is to negotiate a strong accord for approval just 12 months from now.”
8. Med shot, Ghebreyesus addresses the Assembly
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO):
“This accord a generational opportunity that we must seize. We are the generation that lived through the COVID-19 pandemic, so we must be the generation that learns the lessons it taught us, and makes the changes to keep future generations safer.”
10. Med shot, audience in the Assembly
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO):
“In particular, we must work hard to counter the mis- and disinformation about the accord that is circulating in many Member States. We cannot mince words: the idea that this accord will cede authority to WHO is simply fake news. This is an accord by Member States, for Member States, and will be implemented in Member States in accordance with their own laws.”
12. Wide shot, Assembly room
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO):
“We live in a world of deep divisions, and at times those divisions have been evident at this Health Assembly. We cannot pretend they don’t exist, but nor can we be paralysed by them.”
14. Wide shot, Ghebreyesus addresses the Assembly
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO):
“We will often find that our disagreements can be overcome and our divisions can be narrowed. In other words, we will find that health can be a bridge to peace.”
16. Wide shot, Assembly room
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO):
“It has been there since the very beginning, in our Constitution, which says that the health of all peoples is fundamental to the attainment of peace and security, and is dependent upon the fullest co-operation of individuals and States.”
18.
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO):
“This is what COVID-19 has taught us: that pathogens have no regard for the lines humans draw on maps, nor for our politics, religions or anything else that we use to divide ourselves from each other. To pathogens, we are all one, and that’s how we must see ourselves: one people, sharing one planet, working together with one purpose – the highest attainable standard of health for all people.”
20. Wide shot, Assembly room
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Gwen Carnelley, former WHO employee, who joined in 1949, 100 years old this year:
“It was my great honour to work with the World Health Organization for over 30 years in Switzerland, Sri Lanka, Iran, Ghana and The Philippines. It was my first job and my most cherished. It made me so proud to work for the health of people all over the world. And I know that WHO is still as important today as it was when I worked there.”
22. Med shot, Assembly room
23. SOUNDBITE (English) Gwen Carnelley, former WHO employee, who joined in 1949, 100 years old this year:
“I would like to thank all the Member States, all the health partners and my dear past and present WHO colleagues for all you do to help make the world healthy.”
24. Close up, Ghebreyesus claps
25. Wide shot, audience members clap
1. Wide shot, exterior, WHO Headquarters
30 MAY 2023, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO):
“We have come to the end of another long but fruitful World Health Assembly.”
4. Wide shot, Assembly room
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO):
“You can be satisfied that you return home having made many significant resolutions, decisions and strategies, on the vast array of issues on which WHO works.”
6. Med shot, Assembly members
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO):
“The continuing negotiations on the pandemic accord and amendments to the International Health Regulations are an unprecedented opportunity to learn from the mistakes of the COVID-19 pandemic and ensure they are not repeated. Your challenge as Member States is to negotiate a strong accord for approval just 12 months from now.”
8. Med shot, Ghebreyesus addresses the Assembly
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO):
“This accord a generational opportunity that we must seize. We are the generation that lived through the COVID-19 pandemic, so we must be the generation that learns the lessons it taught us, and makes the changes to keep future generations safer.”
10. Med shot, audience in the Assembly
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO):
“In particular, we must work hard to counter the mis- and disinformation about the accord that is circulating in many Member States. We cannot mince words: the idea that this accord will cede authority to WHO is simply fake news. This is an accord by Member States, for Member States, and will be implemented in Member States in accordance with their own laws.”
12. Wide shot, Assembly room
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO):
“We live in a world of deep divisions, and at times those divisions have been evident at this Health Assembly. We cannot pretend they don’t exist, but nor can we be paralysed by them.”
14. Wide shot, Ghebreyesus addresses the Assembly
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO):
“We will often find that our disagreements can be overcome and our divisions can be narrowed. In other words, we will find that health can be a bridge to peace.”
16. Wide shot, Assembly room
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO):
“It has been there since the very beginning, in our Constitution, which says that the health of all peoples is fundamental to the attainment of peace and security, and is dependent upon the fullest co-operation of individuals and States.”
18.
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO):
“This is what COVID-19 has taught us: that pathogens have no regard for the lines humans draw on maps, nor for our politics, religions or anything else that we use to divide ourselves from each other. To pathogens, we are all one, and that’s how we must see ourselves: one people, sharing one planet, working together with one purpose – the highest attainable standard of health for all people.”
20. Wide shot, Assembly room
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Gwen Carnelley, former WHO employee, who joined in 1949, 100 years old this year:
“It was my great honour to work with the World Health Organization for over 30 years in Switzerland, Sri Lanka, Iran, Ghana and The Philippines. It was my first job and my most cherished. It made me so proud to work for the health of people all over the world. And I know that WHO is still as important today as it was when I worked there.”
22. Med shot, Assembly room
23. SOUNDBITE (English) Gwen Carnelley, former WHO employee, who joined in 1949, 100 years old this year:
“I would like to thank all the Member States, all the health partners and my dear past and present WHO colleagues for all you do to help make the world healthy.”
24. Close up, Ghebreyesus claps
25. Wide shot, audience members clap
STORYLINE
This year’s World Health Assembly concluded on Tuesday (30 May), with the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, describing the event as “long but fruitful”.
WHO’s chief added, “You can be satisfied that you return home having made many significant resolutions, decisions and strategies, on the vast array of issues on which WHO works.”
According to Ghebreyesus, “the continuing negotiations on the pandemic accord and amendments to the International Health Regulations are an unprecedented opportunity to learn from the mistakes of the COVID-19 pandemic and ensure they are not repeated.”
The Director-General also told Member States that their “challenge” is to “negotiate a strong accord for approval just 12 months from now.”
He said that “this accord a generational opportunity that we must seize” and “we are the generation that lived through the COVID-19 pandemic, so we must be the generation that learns the lessons it taught us, and makes the changes to keep future generations safer.”
“In particular, we must work hard to counter the mis- and disinformation about the accord that is circulating in many Member States. We cannot mince words: the idea that this accord will cede authority to WHO is simply fake news. This is an accord by Member States, for Member States, and will be implemented in Member States in accordance with their own laws,” explained Ghebreyesus.
He added, “We live in a world of deep divisions, and at times those divisions have been evident at this Health Assembly. We cannot pretend they don’t exist, but nor can we be paralysed by them.”
WHO”s chief noted that “we will often find that our disagreements can be overcome and our divisions can be narrowed” and that “we will find that health can be a bridge to peace.”
“It has been there since the very beginning, in our Constitution, which says that the health of all peoples is fundamental to the attainment of peace and security, and is dependent upon the fullest co-operation of individuals and States,” he added.
According to the Director-General, “this is what COVID-19 has taught us: that pathogens have no regard for the lines humans draw on maps, nor for our politics, religions or anything else that we use to divide ourselves from each other.”
He added, “To pathogens, we are all one, and that’s how we must see ourselves: one people, sharing one planet, working together with one purpose – the highest attainable standard of health for all people.”
On its last day, the Assembly also heard from Gwen Carnelley, a former WHO employee, who joined in 1949, and is turning 100 years old this year.
Carnelley said, “It was my great honour to work with the World Health Organization for over 30 years in Switzerland, Sri Lanka, Iran, Ghana and The Philippines. It was my first job and my most cherished. It made me so proud to work for the health of people all over the world. And I know that WHO is still as important today as it was when I worked there.”
“I would like to thank all the Member States, all the health partners and my dear past and present WHO colleagues for all you do to help make the world healthy,” the former WHO employee concluded.
WHO’s chief added, “You can be satisfied that you return home having made many significant resolutions, decisions and strategies, on the vast array of issues on which WHO works.”
According to Ghebreyesus, “the continuing negotiations on the pandemic accord and amendments to the International Health Regulations are an unprecedented opportunity to learn from the mistakes of the COVID-19 pandemic and ensure they are not repeated.”
The Director-General also told Member States that their “challenge” is to “negotiate a strong accord for approval just 12 months from now.”
He said that “this accord a generational opportunity that we must seize” and “we are the generation that lived through the COVID-19 pandemic, so we must be the generation that learns the lessons it taught us, and makes the changes to keep future generations safer.”
“In particular, we must work hard to counter the mis- and disinformation about the accord that is circulating in many Member States. We cannot mince words: the idea that this accord will cede authority to WHO is simply fake news. This is an accord by Member States, for Member States, and will be implemented in Member States in accordance with their own laws,” explained Ghebreyesus.
He added, “We live in a world of deep divisions, and at times those divisions have been evident at this Health Assembly. We cannot pretend they don’t exist, but nor can we be paralysed by them.”
WHO”s chief noted that “we will often find that our disagreements can be overcome and our divisions can be narrowed” and that “we will find that health can be a bridge to peace.”
“It has been there since the very beginning, in our Constitution, which says that the health of all peoples is fundamental to the attainment of peace and security, and is dependent upon the fullest co-operation of individuals and States,” he added.
According to the Director-General, “this is what COVID-19 has taught us: that pathogens have no regard for the lines humans draw on maps, nor for our politics, religions or anything else that we use to divide ourselves from each other.”
He added, “To pathogens, we are all one, and that’s how we must see ourselves: one people, sharing one planet, working together with one purpose – the highest attainable standard of health for all people.”
On its last day, the Assembly also heard from Gwen Carnelley, a former WHO employee, who joined in 1949, and is turning 100 years old this year.
Carnelley said, “It was my great honour to work with the World Health Organization for over 30 years in Switzerland, Sri Lanka, Iran, Ghana and The Philippines. It was my first job and my most cherished. It made me so proud to work for the health of people all over the world. And I know that WHO is still as important today as it was when I worked there.”
“I would like to thank all the Member States, all the health partners and my dear past and present WHO colleagues for all you do to help make the world healthy,” the former WHO employee concluded.
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