- Title: EGYPT: DELEGATES ARRIVE FOR FINAL DAY OF WORLD POPULATION CONFERENCE IN CAIRO
- Date: 13th September 1994
- Summary: CAIRO EGYPT, (SEPTEMBER 13, 1994) (RTV -- ACCESS All) 1. GV EXTERIOR CONFERENCE HALL, FOUNTAIN 0.04 2. GV ARRIVALS AT CONFERENCE HALL (2 SHOTS) 0.18 3. GV INTERIOR DELEGATES IN LOBBY 0.21 4. SCU CONFERENCE DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL JOSEPH SHAMIE SPEAKING (ENG LISH) 0.31 5. WS AND GV INTERIOR CONFERENCE HALL, DELEGATES (2 SHOTS) 0.41 6. GV HEAD OF IRANIAN DELEGATION MOHAMMED ALI TASHKIRI AT CONFERENCE HALL 0.46 7. GV DELEGATES SEATED 0.49 8. GV TASHKIRI SEATED 0.53 9. WS STAGE 0.59 10. SCU CONFERENCE COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN FRED SAI SPEAKING (ENGLISH) 1.51 11. WS CONFERENCE HALL, DELEGATES APPLAUD (2 SHOTS) 2.01 12. GV INTERIOR EUROPEAN UNION NEWS CONFERENCE 2.06 13. SCU GERMAN INTERIOR SECRETARY FRANZ KROPPENSTEDT SAYING WOMEN SHOULD BE TREATED EQUALLY TO MEN IN EDUCATION, HEALTH AND SEXUAL RIGHTS AND THAT HE IS SATISFIED WITH THE DOCUMENT (ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE GERMAN) 2.34 SEQUENCE 4 TRANsCRIPT: SHAMIE :"THERE WERE 180 MEMBERS THAT EXPRESSED THEIR VIEWS AND I'M SURE THEY'RE PLEASED WITH THE OUTCOME JUST AS ALL THE OTHER PARTICIPANTS ARE" SEQUENCE 10 TRANsCRIPT: SAI :"WE HOPE THAT IN THE WORK THAT WE HAVE DONE FOR THIS CONFERENCE, WE HAVE DEMONSTRATED THE WILLINGNESS OF THE WORLD COMMUNITY TO COME TOGETHER ON IMPORTANT WORLD ISSUES. WE HOPE THAT WHATEVER THE FAILINGS OF THE DOCUMENT THAT YOU WILL BE DEBATING , YOU WILL LOOK BEYOND THE DOCUMENT AND SEE BEHIND THE DOCUMENT THE LIVES OF THE POOR, THE LIVES OF WOMEN, WOMEN TORTURED IN ABJECT POVERTY AND CRIPPLED WITH UNBRIDLED FERTILITY. WOMEN WITH NO HOPE OF CONTROLLING THEIR OWN REPrODUCTIVE SYSTEM AND REQUIREMENTS. IT IS FOR THESE THAT I COME BEFORE YOU THIS MORNING AND I ASK YOU TO ACCEPT THIS REPORT.." Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
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- Location: CAIRO, EGYPT
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- Country: Egypt
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- Story Text: As delegates arrived for the final day of the International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo, Egypt, on Tuesday (September 13) it appeared the 180 members would reach an agreement on the policy document due to presented at the end of the day.
Namibia health minister Nickey Iyambo said there had been give and take by the members and he thought progress had been made.
Conference deputy secretary-general Joseph Shamie said the Vatican, which has been criticised for its intransigent view, was one out of 180 delegations and it was entitled to express its view.
Commenting on whether the Vatican had delayed agreement on the policy document, Shamie said the conference would end on time on Tuesday.
Yaacov Gil, Israeli Minister for Implementation, said he hoped the Vatican would be flexible and that progress could be made.
Conference committee chairman Fred Sai, who was responsible for drawing up the policy document said the report was designed for those women with no hope for controlling their own reproductive lives.
At a press conference for the European Union, Franz Kroppenstedt, German State Secretary of the Interior, said there have been evolutionary moves, especially for women, since the last U.N. conference in Mexico City.
He said many changes are taking place within society, and that women should be treated as equals to men when it comes to education, health, sexual and reproductive rights. He said he was satisfied with the European Union document.
He said the EU believed there was no general right to abortion but that legal abortion should exist putting into consideratrion the medical view. This view agrees with the Mexico City conference.
About 15,000 delegates have been meeting in an attempt to solve the world's growing over-population problem.
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