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Donnerstag, den 10. Juli 2008 Besprechen Sie diesen Report in den RINF Foren > Durch Ramesh Jaura | Während die industrialisierten Hauptnationen der Welt Zufriedenheit über ihren dreitägigen Gipfeltreffen ausdrückten, die Mittwoch, nichtstaatliche Organisationen, nach etwas früher und begrenzter Zustimmung folgerten, waren tief über das Resultat auf dem Ganzen enttäuscht. „Das Gipfel (in Toyako auf dem japanischen Insel Nordhokkaido) ist ein anderer Verrat der Armen und der Bürger der Länder G8,“ Kumi Naidoo, Costuhl des globalen Anrufs zur Tätigkeit gegen Armut (GCAP) erklärte IPS gewesen. „Das Resultat zeigt einen Mangel an Verständnis des Herzens der Ausgaben, die Hunger und Verzweiflung in vielen Ländern verursachen. Wir hoffen, daß die Bürger dieser acht Länder (Großbritannien, Frankreich, Deutschland, Italien, Rußland, Japan, Kanada und die Vereinigten Staaten) mehr Druck auf ihrem heraus-von-berühren Führer ausüben,“ gesagtes Naidoo. „Der Planet brennt, während das G8 fiedelt,“ den GCAP Costuhl addiert. Naidoo sagte, daß die GCAP Repräsentanten von 10 Ländern, die das G8 beobachten, tief betroffen wurden an, wie aus Note mit Wirklichkeit heraus das G8 schien, auf den Hauptausgaben zu sein, die auf Endearmut bezogen wurden. GCAP ist ein wachsendes Bündnis der Gewerkschaften, der Gemeinschaftsgruppen, der Glaube Gruppen, der Frauen und der Jugendorganisationen, der nichtstaatlichen Organisationen und anderer Mitkämpfer, die zusammen über mehr als 100 Ländern arbeiten. GCAP verlangt Tätigkeit von den Führern der Welt, um ihre Versprechungen zu treffen, Armut und Verschiedenheit zu beenden. „Der Mangel an jeder realen Diskussion auf biofuels in Beziehung zu der Lebensmittelpreiskrise entsetzt. Hinweise auf Gesundheit, Ausbildung und Wasser sind, traurig gestützt nicht durch ausreichende Betriebsmittel und eine timeline Verpflichtung,“ sagte Naidoo. Während das G8 „Lippenservice zum MDGs“ zahlt, schlagen ihre Verpflichtungen, daß sogar diese Minimalistziele ernsthaft an der Gefahr des Ausfallens bis zum 2015 sind vor, gesagtes Naidoo. MDGs sind die acht bis zum dem Zieldatum von 2015 getroffen zu werden Jahrtausend-Entwicklung Ziele, die vom Halbieren der extremen Armut bis zu dem Anhalten der Verbreitung von HIV/AIDS und dem Zur Verfügung stellen von Universalprimärausbildung reichen. Diese wurden von den Staatsoberhäuptern und Regierung an einem speziellen Lernabschnitt von UNO Generalversammlung im September 2000 vereinbart. Das G8 gesagt in einem Dokument auf Entwicklung und Afrika, das „, obgleich Fortschritt gebildet worden ist, bedeutende Herausforderungen bleiben. Wir erneuern unsere Verpflichtung zu diesen Zielen, indem wir unsere Bemühungen neu beleben und indem wir verstärken unsere Teilhaberschaften mit, sowie die Anregung der Bemühungen von, die Entwicklungsländer, die basieren auf gegenseitiger Verantwortlichkeit.“ Minar Pimple, Asia director of the UN Millennium Campaign commented: “Reaffirmation of MDG commitment is a positive signal in the run-up to the MDG high level event in September, but the financial resources on the table fall short of what needs to be achieved by 2015.” GCAP said that the G8 communiqué this year only reiterates most of the group’s earlier commitments “but the world has changed for the worse since 2005.” The increase in food prices by 30 to 45 percent has had a devastating effect, especially on women and children trying to survive on less than a dollar a day, GCAP warns. Millions more are being pushed into poverty, it says. “Japan was not able to muster up the leadership we hoped to see from them as summit host,” GCAP Japan representative Tatsuo Hayashi said. “The Japanese people wanted more action to end poverty, so they will be disappointed too.” These remarks stand in stark contrast to the kudos Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda received this week from summit participants for his “leadership, commitment and sense of purpose,” as one participant described it. In another analysis of the conference documents, GCAP welcomed the 10 billion dollars pledged by the G8 since January 2008 towards the global food price crisis, but said “it is still a knee-jerk response that doesn’t address the long-term structural causes. “The G8 promotion of the ‘development of open and efficient agricultural and food markets’ has denied poor people the chance to feed themselves today. It treats food as a mere commodity,” said Joseph Ssuuna of the PELUM Association in Uganda, which is a member of GCAP. “The G8 also seem to be pressing for quick-fix trade negotiations which we believe would be devastating — no deal is better than a bad deal,” said Charles Abani of GCAP Africa. “Tragically, market-driven development, one of the principal causes of the present food crisis, appears to be the solution offered by the present G8 leaders. This is appalling,” said Dian Kartika of GCAP Indonesia. Reacting to the G8 leaders’ statement on the Global Food Security Tuesday, farmer leader from the ‘Via Campesina’ group Yoshitaka Mashima said: “We do not understand why the G8 leaders pretend to solve the food crisis with more free trade while it is the liberalisation of agriculture and food markets that continue to lead us to the current crisis. “People need to eat local food to protect themselves from the instability of world markets. We do not need more imported food,” Mashima told IPS. At a press conference Wednesday, farmers’ leaders said that the G8 governments were mistakenly using the current food and climate crisis to promote the free trade agenda that is serving large companies, and not producers of food or the consumers. The G8 leaders’ statement insists on reviving the agonising WTO negotiations and on preventing countries from regulating food exports. “Small farmers around the world, men and women, have experienced the devastating effects of free trade and WTO policies on livelihoods and local food production,” the farmers’ statement said. “They defend the right of countries to protect their domestic markets, to support sustainable family farmers, and to market food in the countries where it is produced.” It said that the G8 leaders also fail to address two major causes of the current food price crisis: speculation by major traders and transnational companies, and the development of bio-fuel as a new source of energy. “It is important to keep in mind that these root causes of the food crisis are the consequences of the neo-liberal policies promoted by the G8 governments, the WTO, the World Bank and other institutions,” Mashima said. The farmers point out that the G8 also explicitly promotes genetically modified organisms (GMO) as a solution to the food crisis. In doing so, they say, the G8 countries forget that the development of industrial agriculture, with the use of GMO seeds, large amounts of chemical pesticides, fertilisers and monoculture has left millions of farmers in debt. The statement also challenges the G8 claim about “fostering small holder agriculture.” But Mashima said: “We are wondering how the world’s richest nations will support small farmers if they do not even allow them to enter the countries where they are meeting.” Nineteen Korean farmers from Via Campesina were deported from Hokkaido airport Jul. 5 after being detained for 48 hours on the grounds that they could disturb the official meetings. Mashima said that peasants and small food producers currently produce the bulk of world food, and no solution to the current crisis will be found without listening to them. See More:G8Discuss this report in the RINF forums > Have Your Say: Planet Burns While G8 Fiddles Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time. This entry was posted on Thursday, July 10th, 2008 at 11:00 am and is filed under Environmental News, Political News . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site. |
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