(23 Sep 2025)
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New York – 23 September 2025
1. SOUNDBITE (English) David Miliband, president of the International Rescue Committee:
"I think that we’re living through a very dark moment. The President of the United States spoke at the General Assembly of the UN today. He spoke about what he’d done, but he didn’t offer new hope, new initiative, either in respect of Sudan or Gaza or Ukraine. So at the moment, the omens are very serious indeed."
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) David Miliband, president of the International Rescue Committee:
"Well, there are millions of people around the world who need it to be relevant. They need the UN to be relevant and more relevant. Eighty years ago, the UN was set up to quote unquote, prevent the scourge of war from future generations. But today there are 59 wars going on around the world and so the UN needs to become more muscular, more effective in the peace making business. But it can only do that if it’s supported by the member states."
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) David Miliband, president of the International Rescue Committee:
"The geography of power has changed in fundamental ways. There are more countries that are more important. And you’re going to hear from Brazil, from Turkey, from Indonesia, from India. You’re going see the recognition or the evidence of a world that has many power centers, not just one. That’s what we need to catch up with."
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) David Miliband, president of the International Rescue Committee:
"I think what’s made the humanitarian situation more difficult is that more civil wars, that means wars within states, are being sponsored from outside. The 59 civil conflicts that are going on at the moment are not just neighbors feuding with neighbors. They’re neighbors being sponsored and supported by arms and by finance from outside. That’s what’s driving the record numbers in humanitarian need that we really need to get to grips with."
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5. SOUNDBITE (English) David Miliband, president of the International Rescue Committee:
"I think that the future of humanitarian funding is a real fork in the road. Either there’ll be a recognition that when you cut humanitarian funding, you actually ferment political instability. And if that is a recognition, then we’ll see a concentration of the aid system in the worst humanitarian crisis. The alternative is that the message is not recognized, that we continue to spread aid too thin, and that we’re all going to pay the price, whether in disease outbreaks that flow beyond the places that they start, in the flow of people, that’s such a major issue around the world today."
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) David Miliband, president of the International Rescue Committee:
"I think that this is a moment when governments seem to be in retreat from big global problems and that means NGOs, the private sector, civil society needs to step up, we need to be the solution makers because at the moment governments are not taking the actions that are necessary."
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STORYLINE:
One the first day of high level speeches at the UN, the head of the International Rescue Committee didn’t hear any hope in the address Donald Trump gave to the world body.
"He spoke about what he’d done, but he didn’t offer new hope, new initiative, either in respect of Sudan or Gaza or Ukraine," said David Miliband, president of the International Rescue Committee and former British Foreign Secretary under Labour leader Gordon Brown. "So, at the moment, the omens are very serious."
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