STORY: China key player in multilateralism: Nicaraguan FM
DATELINE: July 10, 2023
LENGTH: 00:02:37
LOCATION: UN Headquarters
CATEGORY: POLITICS

SHOTLIST:
1. SOUNDBITE (Spanish): DENIS MONCADA, Nicaraguan Foreign Minister

STORYLINE:

China is an important player in multilateralism with visionary initiatives to promote world peace and development, said Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Denis Moncada in a recent interview at the UN headquarters.

SOUNDBITE 1 (Spanish): DENIS MONCADA, Nicaraguan Foreign Minister
"The strong relationship that China has with the world and with the United Nations is one of friendship and of unity."

SOUNDBITE 2 (Spanish): DENIS MONCADA, Nicaraguan Foreign Minister
"China strengthens multilateralism and also strengthens multipolarity. It develops and implements projects and programs of international significance, global development, global security and of the Belt and Road Initiative."

SOUNDBITE 3 (Spanish): DENIS MONCADA, Nicaraguan Foreign Minister
"Widening exchanges (between China and the world) in scientific and technological, commercial, cultural, and other fields, (are) for the peace, security, and stability of humanity."

The minister said that the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative and the Global Civilization Initiative proposed by China are "highly positive."

SOUNDBITE 4 (Spanish): DENIS MONCADA, Nicaraguan Foreign Minister
"All these initiatives are transcendental in nature to the world. They relate to development and growth with a humanistic vision."

Moncada also shared his thoughts on China's development.

SOUNDBITE 5 (Spanish): DENIS MONCADA, Nicaraguan Foreign Minister
"The transformation of China is admirable and extraordinary in all aspects, in social policy, and the eradication of poverty is very important, very remarkable. The extraordinary scientific technological development, the projection towards the world with its policies and its programs within the framework of respect and equality, it's extraordinary."

SOUNDBITE 6 (Spanish): DENIS MONCADA, Nicaraguan Foreign Minister
"Everything that is being shared with and set by China is a win-win situation."

SOUNDBITE 7 (Spanish): DENIS MONCADA, Nicaraguan Foreign Minister
"In the near future, we Nicaraguans are really very, very happy about the good and excellent relationship with the People's Republic of China."

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from the UN Headquarters.
(XHTV)