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RINF.COM: АЛТЕРНАТИВА ПОСЛЕДНИЕ НОВОСТИ
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Ожогы планеты пока G8 Fiddles
Пятница 10-ое июль 2008 Обсудите этот рапорт в форумах RINF > Ramesh Jaura | Пока нации мира главные индустриализированные выразили соответствие над их тридневными встречами саммита заключили среду, неправительственныа организации, после некоторого предыдущего и лимитированного утверждения, глубоки разочаровал с исходом на целом. «Саммит (в Toyako на северном японском Хоккаидо острова) был другим betrayal бедных и граждан стран G8,» Kumi Naidoo, co-стул глобального звонока к действию против скудости (GCAP) сказанного IPS. «Исход показывает недопонимание сердца вопросов причиняя голод и отчаяние в много стран. Мы надеемся граждане этих 8 стран (Британии, Франции, Германии, Италии, России, японии, Канады и Соединенных Штатов) оденут в больше давления их вне--касатьются руководителям,» сказанное Naidoo. «Планета горит пока G8 fiddling,» co-стул после того как GCAP она добавлена. Naidoo сказало представители GCAP 10 стран наблюдая G8 глубоки были отнесены на как из касания с реальностью показалось, что находилось G8 на главных вопросах отнесенных к скудости законцовки. GCAP будет союзничеством профсоюзов, групп общины, групп веры, женщин и молодежнаяа организация, NGOs и других служак работая совместно через больше чем 100 стран. GCAP вызывает для действия от руководителей мира для того чтобы встретить их посылы закончить скудость и неравноправность. «Отсутсвие любого реального обсуждения на biofuels по отношению к кризису цены еды appalling. Справки к здоровью, образованию и воде, уныло, поддержано подходящими ресурсами и принятием окончательного решения timeline,» сказал Naidoo. Пока G8 оплачивает «обслуживание губы к MDGs», их принятия окончательного решения предлагают что даже эти цели minimalist серьезно в опасности терпеть неудачу к 2015, сказанное Naidoo. MDGs будет 8 целями развития тысячелетия колебаются от halving весьма скудость к останавливать распространение HIV/AIDS и обеспечивать всеобщее начальное образование, котор будет встречать к плановая дата 2015. Эти были соглашены главыами государств и правительств на внеочередной сессии ассамблеи ООН генеральной в сентябре 2000. G8 сказанное в документе на развитии и Африке «хотя прогресс был сделан, значительно возможности остают. Мы возобновляем наше принятие окончательного решения к этим целям путем reinvigorating наши усилия, и путем усиливать наши партнерства с, также, как ободрять усилия, развивающаяся страна основанные на взаимной отчетности.» 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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