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Ache Batlle

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2022-05-19
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  1. “Our region of Latin America and the Caribbean has resorted on several occasions to such policies and the outcomes were tremendously negative in terms of the development and welfare of our populations. We must therefore learn from our past experiences and not repeat them.”

    2022-05-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9036Resumption1 (2022) · source

  2. “But it will also require that all countries act collectively to keep trade flows for food and other supplies open, keep supply chains running and avoid applying sanctions and banning trade, while also working in cooperation with the entire international community and the international financial institutions to provide the necessary assistance to developing countries in the direst circumstances. Regarding my point about keeping trade open, in terms of policy, history has taught us that resorting to applying trade restrictions exacerbates situations and leads to deeper economic and political crises. That is what happened in the 1930s and on several other occasions during other periods.”

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  3. “In that regard, we believe it is imperative that we deepen international cooperation, whether North-South, South-South or triangular cooperation, so that together we can prevent the food crisis and hunger in general from worsening and enable the free flow of food around the world. Facing this crisis will require us to take every necessary effort to put an end to ongoing situations of conflict, especially through the appropriate use of the mechanisms and powers of the Security Council.”

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  4. “Rising prices and supply chain problems put at risk countries that depend on imports to meet their food needs and create situations of extreme vulnerability for those that depend on food aid. Moreover, although the current situation may favour exporting countries, to respond to the rising prices resulting primarily from higher fuel and fertilizer costs, they may have to alter their public policies to increase production costs — mainly due to fuel and fertilizer costs — in order to control inflation and its impact on people’s purchasing power. According to the most recent report of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, submitted to our Organization on 27 April, several countries in our region share the same challenges.”

    2022-05-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9036Resumption1 (2022) · source

  5. “Uruguay views that situation from the point of view of a food exporting country. With a population of 3.5 million people, our country produces food for approximately 30 million people and trades with more than 160 countries around the world. And since we produce significant amounts of certain foods among global suppliers, we can therefore contribute to mitigating the effects of the world food crisis through our exports. Most significantly, as a result of the COVID-19 crisis and the conflicts I have mentioned, especially the one between Russia and Ukraine, there have been disruptions in food and fertilizer supply chains, and food commodities prices, especially those of grains, have increased exponentially, endangering both food security and sustainable development.”

    2022-05-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9036Resumption1 (2022) · source

  6. “Ms. Ache Batlle (Uruguay) (spoke in Spanish): Uruguay welcomes this opportunity to consider the relationship between armed conflict and food crises, as well as the possible measures to be taken by the international community to alleviate the circumstances that we all currently face. Nevertheless, we must not forget the health and economic crises that the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has caused, from which we have yet to recover. In addition to that, we must also take into account the conflicts persisting in various parts of the world, especially in the Middle East and various parts of Africa, as well as the recent conflict in Ukraine, which has caused unprecedented upheavals in global supply chains and trade relations between countries, testing the limits of global food supply lines.”

    2022-05-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9036Resumption1 (2022) · source