WEBCAST & STATEMENTS

20-22 May 2008

A – Webcast

20 May 2008	Special Meeting on the Global Food Crisis (Opening). Video ( English  / Original Language )
21 May 2008	Special Meeting on the Global Food Crisis (Continued). Video ( English  / Original Language )

B – Statements

Opening

• H.E. Mr. Léo Mérorès, President of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)
  ( Video)

Video Messages

• H.E. Mr. Bingu wa Mutharika, President of the Republic of Malawi
  ( Short version /  Long version);
• H.E. Mr. Gordon Brown, Prime Minister, United Kingdom ( Video)

Statements

• H.E. Mrs. Asha-Rose Migiro, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations (Video);
• H.E. Mr. Srgjan Kerim, President of the Sixty-Second Session of the General Assembly ( Video);
• H.E. Sir John Sawers, President of the Security Council (May) ( Video)

Keynote Address

• Dr. Joachim von Braun, Director-General, International Food Policy Research Institute ( Video)

Remarks

• Professor Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Earth Institute, Columbia University
  ( Video)
• Dr. Robert Glasser, Secretary-General, CARE International ( Video)
• Mr. James Borel on behalf of the International Chamber of Commerce ( Video)

Statements by Member States

• Spain
• France
• Statement by H.E. Mr. Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva, President of the Federative Republic of Brazil
• Antigua and Barbuda, on behalf of G77 and China
• Slovenia, on behalf of EU
• Tajikistan, on behalf of Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan
• Bangladesh
• Mexico, on behalf of Rio Group
• Australia
• Switzerland
• Sri Lanka
• Japan
• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
• Indonesia
• Egypt
• India
• Norway
• Colombia
• New Zealand
• Nicaragua
• Philippines
• Honduras
• El Salvador
• Jamaica
• Kuwait
• Iceland
• Malawi
• Vietnam
• Dominican Republic
• Cuba
• Congo
• Korea
• China
• Malaysia
• Paraguay
• Benin
• Venezuela
• Liechtenstein
• Nigeria
• Namibia
• South Africa
• Iran
• Luxembourg

Statements by United Nations entities

• World Bank
• International Monetary Fund - IMF
• International Fund for Agricultural Development - IFAD
• United Nations Environment Programme - UNEP
• United Nations Industrial Development Organization - UNIDO
• International Atomic Energy Agency - IAEA

Statements by Non-Governmental Organizations

• Caritas Internationalis, on behalf of the Civil Society

Statements by Permanent Observers and other Intergovernmental Organizations with Observers Status

• European Commission
• Commonwealth Secretariat
• IIMSAM
• International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

 

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