(20 Feb 2003)
1. Wide shot summit
2. Annan approaching podium
3. Cutaway Thabo Mbeki and Chirac
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Kofi Annan, UN Secretary General:
"We must do our utmost to help Cote D'Ivoire regain the secure path it had known for so many years and so many decades. I call on all Ivorians, and in particular the country's political leaders and President Gbagbo, to make the agreement they signed last month a concrete first step towards peace. What is happening in Cote d'Ivoire should not cloud progress being made in other parts of Africa. Angola is now consolidating peace after three decades of war. In Burundi, Sierra Leone and Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Africans are showing a real determination to settle their conflicts with tangible results. That makes it all the more important for the international community to provide strong support for Africa's peacekeeping and peace-making mechanisms and institutions."
5. Cutaway
6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Kofi Annan, UN Secretary General:
"Africa cannot afford further turmoil, but if it erupts, Africa must have the capacity to respond. Nowhere is an effective African response more critical than the fight against HIV-AIDS."
7. Cutaway
8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Kofi Annan, UN Secretary General:
"Distinguished heads of state and government, for all that you have done, much more is needed by each and every one of you. I urge you to continue to speak out about the disease and to stress the need for safe sex including the use of condoms. I encourage you to support the initiatives of the many courageous grassroots groups and community organisations battling the pandemic. I hope you will allocate greater shares of national budgets to health care systems and in general bring the full force of your office to bear on this issue. "
9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Kofi Annan, UN Secretary General:
"Since AIDS in Africa and around the world is more and more wearing a woman's face, we would gain control of the pandemic only if women are at the very centre of our strategies. In short, if you want to save Africa you must save the African woman first."
10. Applause
11. Annan walks away from podium
STORYLINE:
United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan addressed leaders at the Franco-African summit in Paris on Thursday, urging then to do their utmost to secure peace in the Ivory Coast, and to tackle the continent's HIV/AIDS pandemic.
Annan urged delegates not to allow the Ivory Coast's five month civil war to cloud progress being made in other parts of Africa.
On the subject of HIV-AIDS, Annan called on governments to speak openly to their citizens about the disease and how to prevent infection.
He also said that women should be at the centre of strategies implemented to control the pandemic.
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