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2022-05-19

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2022-05-19

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1. “We stand ready to engage in that regard, including through the Danish Prime Minister, who is one of the Champions of the Group. All of our countries will co-sponsor General Assembly draft resolution A/76/L.55, entitled “State of global food insecurity”. We agree that this triple crisis can be addressed only collectively and multilaterally. International financial institutions, humanitarian actors, local peacebuilders, regional organizations, the private sector, the scientific community, the United Nations as a whole and all of us Member States — all have roles to play and responsibilities to shoulder. I would therefore like to conclude by thanking you, Mr. President, for bringing us together today to commit to doing more together. We really need to do so, and we have no time to spare.”

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

2. “Building and sustaining peace improves conditions for smallholder farmers to access land, for communities to grow crops and diversify their livelihoods and for investment in sustainable and inclusive food systems, enabling agriculture to thrive rather than be destroyed. It contributes to ensuring access to basic services and universal access to social protection. Adequately financed peacebuilding can enhance food security and ensure longer-term development. We fully support the Secretary-General’s work on the New Agenda for Peace and stand ready to contribute to its implementation. Finally, the Nordic countries welcome the recommendations made in the report of the Global Crisis Response Group on Food, Energy and Finance.”

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3. “Those underfunded, protracted crises create fertile ground for shocks to escalate into full-blown crises. Life-saving assistance must reach people in need. Safe, rapid and unhindered humanitarian access must be ensured, and respect for humanitarian principles must be guaranteed. Equally urgent are measures to increase the supply of food. Russia must immediately allow the export of grain stuck in silos in Ukraine, which is enough to feed millions. Russia’s unprovoked and unjustified military aggression against Ukraine must stop. That is necessary for Ukraine to restart its agricultural production and exports. In all parts of the world, agricultural production systems should be developed to become sustainable and resilient to escalating climate change. Similarly, there is an urgent need to end violent conflict everywhere.”

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

4. “With the Russian aggression against Ukraine, supported by Belarus, the situation has deteriorated further. I would like to thank the Secretary-General and the other briefers both for making that very clear and for the work that they and their colleagues have been doing to alleviate the situation, often under extremely challenging circumstances. The actions needed are both immediate and systemic. The skyrocketing humanitarian needs across almost all continents must be met with increased humanitarian funding. The humanitarian response plans for countries such as Somalia, Burkina Faso, Myanmar and the Democratic Republic of the Congo are only 5 to 15 per cent funded. Regrettably, the list of underfunded crises runs even longer. And those are not merely statistics but a question of life and death.”

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

5. “I will try to use my time wisely. We do not have a single minute to waste in halting the triple food, energy and financing crisis. My remarks are made on behalf of the five Nordic countries. Four years ago, almost to the day, Sweden and three other elected Security Council members put forward resolution 2417 (2018), on conflict and hunger, which condemns the use of starvation as a method of warfare. The world was alarmed by the threat of famine and the 74 million people facing crisis-level food insecurity, or worse. Since then, the number has almost quadrupled to a staggering 275 million people. A majority of them live in areas of conflict, and, as always, women and children bear the brunt of the burden. If that is not argument enough for seriously stepping up our efforts, I am not sure what would be.”

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