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Villalobos Arámbula

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  1. “Humanitarian exceptions should also be made in order to facilitate the work of those agencies in such circumstances. If we are to end food insecurity in conflict situations, we must redirect resources and priorities. Rather than increasing our spending on weapons that prolong conflicts and destroy human, animal and plant life, we should earmark resources for humanitarian action and work chiefly to address the underlying causes of conflicts, as my President said in the Council in November 2021 (see S/PV.8909). In conclusion, Mexico expresses its commitment to joining all countries with the goal of preventing people from suffering from or dying of hunger in a world with the tools and ability to avoid that fate.”

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

  2. “Ending hunger and malnutrition, addressing protracted humanitarian crises, preventing and resolving conflicts and building peace are not separate tasks but complementary aspects of the same challenge. Presidential statement S/PRST/2017/14 also acknowledges the importance and need for the Security Council to be warned by the Secretary-General whenever there is a risk of famine in conflict-affected areas. As an elected member of the Security Council, Mexico reiterates its call for compliance with the provisions of relevant resolutions already adopted. I would like to underscore the importance of the early-warning mechanisms available to the United Nations system. Humanitarian and development agencies should be able to identify and prevent situations that could lead to famine and its impact on international peace and security.”

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

  3. “It is therefore imperative to recognize that the world’s food systems are interdependent, and that as we have seen, an armed conflict in one place will sooner or later alter the food system as a whole. Given that interconnectedness, it is important to develop alternatives that do not jeopardize food security in the global context. The Security Council has tools designed to address those challenges, although much remains to be done to ensure that they are utilized to the full. Resolution 2417 (2018), adopted in 2018, was an important step in responding to the causal links between armed conflict and famine. Food insecurity is a key issue on the international peace and security agenda and requires our immediate and sustained attention.”

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

  4. “In our region of Latin America and the Caribbean, Haiti is the most serious case, with half of its population in need of food assistance and more than a million in extreme poverty. It is equally important to recognize that despite the timely food production and distribution efforts of the World Food Programme and FAO, among others, such efforts can fall short due to a lack of economic resources, inputs, the impact of pests and diseases and increases in food, energy and raw material prices. Other problems such as climate change, declines in soil fertility and the coronavirus disease pandemic, as well as a lack of water for agriculture, have a considerable impact on food production and distribution.”

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

  5. “It is unacceptable that in a world of material abundance and natural resources, vast amounts of money are spent to meet superfluous or at any rate non-essential costs while 193 million people across 53 countries are living with food insecurity. And 100 million of them are in those unfortunate circumstances as a result of armed conflict. To take some specific cases, such as in the Horn of Africa, 15 million people there are in a situation of food insecurity. In West Africa and the Sahel, more than 27 million people are experiencing conditions of severe food insecurity, while child malnutrition rates are truly alarming. In Syria, the population suffering from hunger has increased since 2018 and now stands at close to 60 per cent.”

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

  6. “It is indeed the case that small farmers have doubled their harvest thanks to Mexican fertilizer production. The joint and coordinated work of these agencies is essential to effectively addressing and mitigating the growing impact of the global food security crisis. While the causes of food insecurity are multidimensional, it is inevitable that armed conflicts — most of which are found on the Security Council’s agenda — are a determining factor in initiating or aggravating them, and their consequences are unjustly borne by the civilian population. Unfortunately, there is no shortage of examples, from Africa to the Middle East and, most recently, in Ukraine.”

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

  7. “Mr. Villalobos Arámbula (Mexico) (spoke in Spanish): Mexico is grateful to the United States, in its capacity as President of the Security Council this month, for convening this open debate, enabling us to highlight the importance of the link between conflict and food security. We also appreciate the briefings by and the presence here today of the Secretary- General of the United Nations, as well as the Executive Director of the World Food Programme, the Director- General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and Ms. Sara Menker, as a representative of civil society. I want to thank Mr. Qu Dongyu, Director-General of the FAO, for his references to one of my country’s social programmes on fertilizer for small corn producers in Mexico.”

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