STORY: 73rd UNGA president highlights China's pivotal role in global peace, development
SHOOTING TIME: April 26, 2024
DATELINE: June 6, 2024
LENGTH: 00:03:03
LOCATION: UN Headquarters
CATEGORY: POLITICS

SHOTLIST:
1. mid shot of president of the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly Maria Fernanda Espinosa Garces in interview
2. SOUNDBITE (English): MARIA FERNANDA ESPINOSA GARCES, President of 73rd session of UNGA
3. various of Espinosa in interview

STORYLINE:

Maria Fernanda Espinosa Garces, president of the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), has underscored China's significant impact on global peace and sustainable development.

Espinosa emphasized the "crucial" contributions of China to the international landscape, particularly in addressing contemporary global challenges and fostering multilateral cooperation.

The former UNGA president made the remarks in an exclusive interview with Xinhua during her recent trip to the UN headquarters in New York.

SOUNDBITE (English): MARIA FERNANDA ESPINOSA GARCES, President of 73rd session of the UNGA
"I think that China is a central actor. It has a very important role in the current geopolitics. It has a leadership role that I think that China has understood the important role that it has, not only in the world of the right to development and financing for development, but in the role of peacebuilding and peacemaking and building a world that is safer for all of us. And when you see the current challenges, climate change and climate commitments, China has shown to be a very central, critical actor with a vision. If you look at efforts on renewable energies, I think that China occupies a central space. When we speak about solidarity and cooperation, China has shown its very, very important and leading role in promoting solidarity and cooperation around the world. When we speak about the need to rethink the multilateral system, I think that I have heard and followed China having a very constructive role saying, yes, we need to improve the system. So I think China has a very important role in the current geopolitics. And I think that if we are to build a peaceful world, if we are to build a prosperous world based on sustainable development, if we are to build a peaceful coexistence among nations, China has a central, critical, important role to play."

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