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木曜日、2008年7月10日
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によって Ramesh Jaura | 世界の主要な工業化された国家が早く、限られた承認の後で水曜日の非政府機関を、完了した3日間の首脳会議上の満足を表現する間、深く結果に全体的に見ると失望させた。

「頂上(北日本の島の北海道のToyakoで) G8国の貧乏人そして市民のもう一つの裏切り」、はKumi Naidooの窮乏(ずっとGCAP)に対する全体的な実施要請の副議長言われたIPSである。

「結果は多くの国で空腹および破れかぶれを引き起こす問題によりの中心の理解の欠乏を示す。 私達はこの8ヶ国(英本国、フランス、ドイツ、イタリア、ロシア、日本、カナダおよび米国)の市民が彼等のにより多くの圧力をの触れるリーダーに置くとことを望む」、Naidooは言った。

「G8が空費している間惑星」、はGCAPの副議長を加えられて燃やしている。

Naidooは現実の接触からG8が終りの窮乏と関連していた主な問題点でいかにであることをようであるかG8を観察する10ヶ国のGCAPの代表が深くかかわっていたことを言った。

GCAPは労働組合の成長する同盟、コミュニティグループ、信頼のグループ、女性および100ヶ国以上を渡って協力する青年団、NGOsおよび他の運動家である。 GCAPは世界のリーダーからの行為を窮乏および不平等を終える約束に会うために求めている。

「食品価格の危機に関連するbiofuelsについてのあらゆる実質の議論の欠乏はぞっとするようである。 健康、教育および水への参照はある、十分な資源およびタイムラインの責任によって悲しげに、支えられなくて」、Naidooを言った。

G8が「MDGsへの空世辞」を支払う間、責任はこれらの最小主義の目的が2015年までに失敗の危険がある状態に真剣にあることを、Naidoo言った提案する。

MDGsはHIV/AIDSの広がりを停止させ、普遍的な第一次教育を提供することまで極度な窮乏の2等分から及ぶ2015年の目標の期日が会う8つの千年間の開発の目的、である。 これらは2000年9月の国連総会の特別な会議のそして政府国家首脳によって同意された。

G8は開発および「、重要な挑戦が残るアフリカの文書で進歩がなされたが言った。 私達はこれらの目的に私達の努力をと努力をの励ますことと同様、私達のパートナーシップをとの最活性化すること、増強することによって更新する私達の責任を、相互責任能力に基づいて発展途上国」。

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.

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