Development
Food security at UNGA 81
Raised by 95 of 223 speakers. Read verbatim UN transcript quotes and select a time to hear the speech.
Speeches that raised food security
India · Day 5Subrahmanyam JaishankarIndia supports ongoing initiatives to bring peace.
Even as this is underway, there is an urgent need to address the security of seafarers and supply of food grains and energy.
India is prepared to do everything possible to ameliorate this situation, especially with regard to food and energy security.
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Belarus · Day 5Maxim RyzhenkovTherefore, we offer constructive criticism of the organisation, hoping that it can recover and take on a new lease on life.
We are convinced that the UN must remain the primary universal forum for addressing common challenges.
In these circumstances, Belarus is making its contribution to creating a new world.
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San Marino · Day 5Luca BeccariEnvironmental degradation, food insecurity, water scarcity and displacement.
The Paris Agreement must be fully implemented.
The 1.5 degree goal must remain within reach.
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Sao Tome and Principe · Day 5Ilza Maria dos Santos Amado VazA transition that is for us an economic, financial, social, and environmental necessity.
In an island economy dependent on imported fuel, the cost and reliability of electricity affect every sector.
The implementation of our energy transition program and the National Energy Compact should contribute to a cleaner, more affordable, secure, and stable system, but it will require investment and international partnerships.
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Indonesia · Day 5SugionoFor Indonesia, this means building greater self-sufficiency in food and strengthening our energy security.
Most importantly, this also means investing in the future of our people, ensuring our children receive quality education and ensuring our people have access to essential healthcare.
At the same time, we are building an economy that can withstand shocks and create opportunities, more jobs, stronger industries, and greater productive capacity.
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Micronesia (Federated States of) · Day 5Aren PalikAt the same time, we recognize the continuing and growing challenges of climate change, ocean degradation, pollution, and growing inequality.
Mr. President and Excellencies, today's security landscape is not only by conflict, but by climate-driven fragility.
Extreme weather events, sea level rise, and resource degradation are eroding stability across vulnerable regions, especially the Pacific.
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Philippines · Day 5Ma. Theresa LazaroThe war in Ukraine compounds a global food crisis and economic shocks unseen since the Second World War.
Peace, therefore, is not merely the absence of war.
It is our shared and indivisible responsibility.
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Cuba · Day 5Bruno Eduardo Rodríguez ParrillaThe executioner is blaming the victim.
They are following the formula recommended by the State Department since 1960 in the infamous "Mallory Memorandum," which established as an official policy, and it's in force up until today, the overthrowing of the Cuban government through the economic suffocation and the extreme suffering of the Cuban people out of material shortages, hunger, and desperation.
The President of the United States declared in this room a few days ago that Cuba is a failed state.
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Iceland · Day 5Thorgerdur Katrín GunnarsdóttirAnd so does adherence to international law beyond the battlefield.
To be clear, Iceland stands with the ICC.
Obstruction of lawful international transit through the Straits of Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb threatens not only countries in the region, but global energy markets and food security.
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Singapore · Day 5Vivian BalakrishnanActually, the multilateral system today still works more often than the headlines would suggest.
A few examples.
The World Food Programme feeds over 100 million people a year.
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Germany · Day 5Johann WadephulThis aggression has been condemned consistently by an overwhelming majority here in the General Assembly.
Russia's war targets the lives of millions of innocent people, the existence of the Ukrainian state and culture, and the European peace order.
It puts vital grain deliveries for millions of people at risk, particularly in Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
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