6-18-08, 9:10 am

Geneva, Jun 17 (Prensa Latina) Cuba reasserted here Tuesday that the international food crisis, caused by the inequality of the global economic order, is unjustifiable in a world that is capable of satisfying human food needs.

Cuban Ambassador to the United Nations Juan Antonio Fernandez said the fact that there are more than 850 million people that go hungry in the world is now treated with disregard.

During his contribution to the North-South Forum of the UN Human Rights Council (UN HRC) , Fernandez said hunger has disappeared from the conscience of a lot of people, and replaced by fears of terrorism and climatic changes, until the food crisis occurred.

The session was concentrated on the relationships between food security, energy policies and climatic changes.

Fernandez referred his colleagues on the UN HRC to the discussion of the Non Aligned Summit celebrated in Havana in 2006, where this movement agreed on a strategy for peace and prosperity within a balanced and fair international order.

He also commented that the UN HRC discussed the problem of hunger in recent date, with an invitation to the Special Rapporteur on the right to food to the Summit held in Rome under the Food and Agriculture Organization.

“Donations, as it is already known, are not a solution for the problem, and unfortunately, the Summit of Rome for Agriculture and Food did not bring the best results, and concluded with a very fragile consensus,” he stated.

Fernandez also highlighted the importance of keeping the topic as one of the priorities and recognized that famine at least got a place in the agenda of the dignitaries of the world, in this hard battle for food security.

From Prensa Latina