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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, podcasts, radio news.

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Speaker 2: Carol Master along with Tim Stenovic live here at Bloomberg

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Speaker 2: Headquarters in New York City. Well, the eightieth session of

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Speaker 2: the You and General Assembly is underway here in the city,

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Speaker 2: with the first day of the High Level General Debate

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Speaker 2: happening next week. Former German Foreign Minister and Alina Beherbach

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Speaker 2: was elected President of the General Assemblies eightieth session on

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Speaker 2: June second. Her appointment comes as the regional group that

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Speaker 2: includes Western Europe takes its turn at the helm of

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Speaker 2: the World Body, and we are delighted to have her

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Speaker 2: here in studio. President Mahrbach, so nice to have you

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Speaker 2: here with us. It's a shame there's nothing going on

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Speaker 2: in the world to talk about. Let's talk about it,

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Speaker 2: and I'm going to give you a little bit of

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Speaker 2: a list, very familiar, I'm sure to you. Russia's war

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Speaker 2: with Ukraine now three and a half years old, a

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Speaker 2: recent incident when Russian drones flew over Poland, Israel, and

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Speaker 2: Hamas coming up on its second year anniversary, The Tech War,

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Speaker 2: the trade War China Taiwan, question marks President Trump, saying

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Speaker 2: you had a productive call with President g just today.

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Speaker 2: Two largest economies in the world top of mind for

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Speaker 2: you as worldwide leaders are gathering here at the UN

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Speaker 3: It's a lot.

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Speaker 4: It's a lot, and it underlines why it needs this

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Speaker 4: World Parliament, the United Nations more than ever. However, looking

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Speaker 4: around the world, we are not only in shaky times,

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Speaker 4: but this institution is under heavy pressure politically and financially,

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Speaker 4: and therefore we have to reform it. This is the

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Speaker 4: biggest task for this upcoming year and as well, and

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Speaker 4: this is what I would like to underline as President

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Speaker 4: of this General Assembly and the United Nations that if

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Speaker 4: we wouldn't have the United Nations, we would have to

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Speaker 4: build it. Because none of these global challenges you just

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Speaker 4: mentioned could one country face alone or even solve alone.

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Speaker 4: And this is why the theme of this session is

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Speaker 1: What is your priority in terms of reform. What is

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Speaker 1: the number one reform that you intend to accomplish.

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Speaker 4: It has to be more efficient. A very big organization.

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Speaker 4: It does incredible work. But all we are talking about

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Speaker 4: is the failure of the Security Council because, as.

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Speaker 3: You mentioned, the war in Ukraine going on.

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Speaker 4: Because a permanent member of the Security Council can just

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Speaker 4: But their institutions like UNITSEV, everybody knows you have.

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Speaker 4: Go to school without the UN UNITSEF one twenty five

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Speaker 4: COVID pandemic. Even the biggest countries like the US, a

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Speaker 3: So you can only do it together with.

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Speaker 4: The help of the World Health Organization and vaccination going on.

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Speaker 4: But people don't know about these great successes. So make

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Speaker 4: clear that this is all the UN and the money

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Speaker 4: Is the biggest task and this is why it needs

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Speaker 4: It needs obviously the funding of member states, and currently

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Speaker 4: Well, every country should pay their obligation, and the United

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Speaker 4: A transatlantic not only friend, but like my country owes

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Speaker 4: Actually also the reason why this United Nation was founded,

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Speaker 3: This is a place where you talk about also disagreements well, but.

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Speaker 2: On that and I want to kind of pursue the

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Speaker 4: It's one of the biggest countries in the world. It

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Speaker 4: And we saw already not only was COVID when global

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Speaker 1: How does the role of the United Nations change in

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Speaker 3: Good diplomacy?

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Speaker 4: My point of view is not about convincing, and it's

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Speaker 4: not like just speaking with the people who have the

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Speaker 4: that way? And if I've understood correctly, this administration, this

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Speaker 4: So I invited all heads of states to think about

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Speaker 4: this moti betted together how can we bring peace to

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Speaker 4: this divided world. You need partners, and many partners are

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Speaker 4: especially with regard to peace support the United Nations peace

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Speaker 4: you're also engaging with smaller and other countries around the world.

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Speaker 4: And the President has announced that you will come on Tuesday,

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Speaker 2: We're talking with Anelina Bareback. She is an eightieth and

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Speaker 2: in studio. You know, we know the division that exists geopolitically,

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Speaker 2: We see it every day. You've been a very strong

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Speaker 2: how do we move forward on things like climate and

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Speaker 3: May be starting with the climate crisis.

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Speaker 4: Anyhow, I always say, ah, if you're not staying positive,

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Speaker 4: you should not be in international politics.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, then you choose the wrong job.

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Speaker 4: But for the climate crisis, for example, I've been at

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Speaker 4: But they didn't dare to say phase out of fossil fuels,

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Speaker 4: And now in twenty twenty five, actually last year, when

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Speaker 4: Say, I don't like renewable energy, but I mean the

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Speaker 4: I think there are so much investment having spent in

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Speaker 4: we still have also other ways obviously to go. But

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Speaker 4: if already the golf countries, I mean they're oil producing

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Speaker 4: and this is renewable. Then obviously the world have changed

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Speaker 4: in this regard, and I mean you've seen it here

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Speaker 4: in your own country. No money in the world can

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Speaker 4: protect anybody against the climate effects. When in California, like

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Speaker 4: the Witches, neighborhoods were burning.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it didn't help that you have money.

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Speaker 4: You can only help together if you do climate protection

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Speaker 4: measures and protection and development around the world.

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Speaker 2: So, worldly leaders, you are continuing to have the conversation.

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Speaker 2: Companies are continuing to spend, and you're seeing a movement

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Speaker 2: continuing to move forward when it comes to renewable energy.

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Speaker 4: These are two trends. But obviously this is our world

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Speaker 4: of capitalism. Yeah, the logic goes where the money goes.

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Speaker 4: There's a clear trend. And this is a clear trend.

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Speaker 4: Is sorry, facing out of fossil not tomorrow, not the

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Speaker 1: for renewables, specifically wind and solar, well known. He doesn't

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Speaker 1: like windmills. He likes fossil fel and oil, and he

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Speaker 1: likes also nuclear power, but we know there are challenges

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Speaker 1: with nuclear power. In your view, is the US going

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Speaker 1: to be left behind if we don't invest in renewables.

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Speaker 4: Well, my role is not to commenting on national politics. However,

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Speaker 4: I've been to Texas actually as a foreign minister, obviously

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Speaker 4: also very strong on fossils. But they showed me there,

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Speaker 4: especially all the wind parks, and they showed me how

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Speaker 4: you make amagnac carbon neutral.

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Speaker 3: Because this is the source for the future with global technology.

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Speaker 4: So I would say that also in these countries they

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Speaker 4: are like parallel trends goinging on and which trends prevails.

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Speaker 4: This is a decision of every national steal estate. But

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Speaker 4: if you see the trend worldwide, if you see it

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Speaker 4: in China, if you see it in Europe, but if

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Speaker 4: you see it in Africa, where the population of the

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Speaker 4: future is living, it's crystal clear where the future economy

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Speaker 4: will go.

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Speaker 1: I just want to ask a big picture question. All

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Speaker 1: went through this list of the challenging environment that we're in.

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Speaker 1: Russia's war with Ukraine now three and a half years old,

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Speaker 1: Israel Hinamas coming up on its second year anniversary, the

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Speaker 1: challenges between China and Taiwan. You said you want to

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Speaker 1: make the UN more efficient, But what would you say

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Speaker 1: to a critic that says it hasn't been effective in

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Speaker 1: the last few years.

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Speaker 3: You're right, not effective enough.

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Speaker 4: But I always turned the question around, would any country

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Speaker 4: in the world be better off without the United Nation?

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Speaker 4: Because the logic of those who argue, well, it didn't

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Speaker 4: deliver on the good would be stop doing the right thing,

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Speaker 4: but then evil would prevail. Would any truck of humanity

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Speaker 4: and aid would enter gather if we say UN doesn't

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Speaker 4: work anymore? What the war in Ukraine will stop? If

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Speaker 4: we wouldn't have peace, no negotiations going on, not at all.

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Speaker 3: So we have to try harder.

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Speaker 4: This is our job, and we know from history that

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Speaker 4: the most important thing is to keep up hope. And

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Speaker 4: hope is not the conviction that everything will go right,

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Speaker 4: but hope is a conviction that you do the right thing.

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Speaker 4: And diplomis is about doing three hundred days or something

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Speaker 4: been three thousand dates.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, if you look.

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Speaker 4: Back in history against Second World War, it lasted for

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Speaker 4: years and years and years, and then afterwards we built

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Speaker 4: the United Nations So it's about not giving up, trying

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Speaker 4: even a harder, and always remember what.

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Speaker 3: Would you like to do your neighbor would do?

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Speaker 4: This is what I asked as a European when there

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Speaker 4: was a full invasion of Russia in Ukraine. Imagine that

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Speaker 4: this was only eight hours drive away from Berlin capital.

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Speaker 4: Would I not want my neighbors helping me out.

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Speaker 3: When we would have been invaded?

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Speaker 2: Or? Having said that as a European, do Europeans you know,

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Speaker 2: feel like the United States has abandoned it an important

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Speaker 2: ally and group.

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Speaker 4: If you will, will you bring me in difficult situation?

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Speaker 3: I switched by my job. No no, and I'm speaking

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Speaker 3: now for one hundred and ninety three.

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Speaker 4: Member states, but obviously I do have also a national identity.

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Speaker 4: But I mean this is alto democracy. Yeah, government change

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Speaker 4: and therefore policy change. But I'm a believer, as I said,

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Speaker 4: not only an optimist, but a believer that deep inside.

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Speaker 4: When everybody asked themselves, so what do I wish for

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Speaker 4: my own children? What I do I wish for my

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Speaker 4: family is like to have clean water and food, to

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Speaker 4: live in peace and security, to go to school, and

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Speaker 4: to wish that my friends are helping me out and

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Speaker 4: especially between Europe and the US. I mean this has

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Speaker 4: been the deepest friendship over the last decades. So the

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Speaker 4: motto we had all together, all for one and one

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Speaker 4: for all. I think this is what held us really.

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Speaker 4: Also the freedom in our different countries, and I believe

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Speaker 4: that the majorities on both sides of the Atlantic sees

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Speaker 4: it's still the same way.

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Speaker 2: Well, I have to say, well, the you and General

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Speaker 2: Assembly creates gridlock in New York City and it gets

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Speaker 2: a little crazy moving around. It always does give me

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Speaker 2: a lot of hope and optimism. We get an opportunity

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Speaker 2: to talk to leaders like yourself, global leaders who are

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Speaker 2: seeing different perspectives, different views, and just talking about progress

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Speaker 2: and things that are getting done around the world. So

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Speaker 2: it always gives me some hope. So I'm so glad

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Speaker 2: we got some time with you. Good luck this week.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, very imagin and all the this.

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Speaker 2: Take care a Alita Baerbach. She is the eightieth UN

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Speaker 2: General Assembly President Foreign German Foreign Minister, joining us right

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Speaker 2: here in studio