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News From Non -Aligned World South-South cooperation for Food Security in NAM Member States By IINS Research Team With the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in 2015, governments across the world made a commitment to “end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition” by 2030. This includes ensuring that all people have dependable access to adequate food and nutrition; working to eliminate malnutrition; helping to ensure that food systems are sustainable and resilient; and supporting livelihoods for the poorest and most vulnerable food insecure populations. South-South cooperation is therefore an important means for achieving progress in food security. It is at the core of advancing nationally-owned efforts to realize a world without hunger. NAM has called upon the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in collaboration with relevant UN entities and regional and sub-regional organizations to continue addressing global and regional food security, in particular, through the full and timely implementation and operationalization of short-term responses. In this regard, the Heads of State or Government reaffirmed the central role of the Committee on World Food Security CFS of FAO for agriculture, food security and nutrition; According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), South-South Cooperation (SSC) is a mechanism for sharing key development solutions - knowledge, experiences, good practices, policies, technology and resources - among all the countries of the global South at world level, while promoting principles of solidarity and mutual benefit among participants. South-South Cooperation has proven to be very cost-effective and is considered very relevant among countries that have had more recent experience in tackling development issues in similar socio-economic or ecological zones Since the major share of the population affected by the problem of food security resides in the developing Member States of the Non Aligned Movement, NAM has always sought a solution by envisioning a more equitable world which can help move the global economy in a greener, more sustainable direction and improve food security. NAM has expressed the conviction that South-South and triangular cooperation, including investment in agriculture and food security is more needed today than ever. In this regard, the Movement has welcomed the South-South and triangular initiatives to enhance and expand exchange of human resources, experiences and know-how in these areas to support agriculture, including crops, livestock, forestry, fisheries and aquaculture to increase the availability of food. NAM has called upon the Member States to continue actively engaged in the promotion of the realization of the right to food in all countries. NAM Member States have undertaken many programs to promote South-South cooperation for food security. In 2017, an eight-member Kenyan delegation visited Malaysia and met with a wide range of actors at national and local level responsible for food security and nutrition policy and programmes. The Study Tour provided the Kenyan delegation with the opportunity to witness state-level involvement in food security and nutrition programmes. In the first week of September 2017, a mission of experts visited Peru from Kenya to learn about best practice in food security, and coordinated productive development programmes that the Government of Peru is running in the country. The South-South Cooperation mission, made up of eight officials from the Kenyan Ministry of Agriculture, Farming and Fishing, was arranged by the Food and Agriculture Organization in collaboration with the Peruvian Agency for International Cooperation (APCI). Ghana has recently made great progress in reducing rural poverty and looks forward to share some of their successful experiences that could benefit neighbour countries facing similar challenges as those they have recently overcome. In India, Indo Africa Forum Summit (IAFS) is a programme fully sponsored by the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) with a view to develop Indo-Africa cooperation by helping African countries to develop their own potential for development in human resource and agriculture. The aim of the program is to ensure food security of the people and bring down the rising cost of food. January, <strong>2018</strong> (14)
NAM reaffirms the importance of the Chemical Weapons Convention By Dr. Pawan Mathur The Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) is a multilateral treaty which aims to eliminate an entire category of weapons of mass destruction by prohibiting the development, production, acquisition, stockpiling, retention, transfer or use of chemical weapons by States Parties. The Preamble to the Convention calls for a complete and effective prohibition of the development, production, acquisition, stockpiling, retention, transfer and use of chemical weapons, and their destruction, which represents a necessary step towards the achievement of the objective of disarmament. NAM Member States that are parties to the CWC have underlined that the use of chemical weapons and toxic chemicals as a weapon anywhere by anyone and under any circumstances is reprehensible and completely contrary to the provisions of the Convention, legal norms and standards of the international community. “Speaking on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement, H.E. Ambassador Haifa Aissami Madah, Permanent Representative of Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to the OPCW attached great importance to the universality of the Convention and in this context hereby strongly called on the other States not Party to the Convention to accede to it without further delay and precondition. NAM’s position that States remaining outside the Convention should not be able to take advantage of any of the benefits it offers to the States Parties was also emphasised” At the 17th NAM Summit held in Venezuela, Heads of State or Government of NAM States Parties to the CWC, while paying due respect to the chemical weapons victims and their families, declared their firm conviction that international support to provide special care and assistance to all victims suffering the effects of exposure to chemical weapons is an urgent humanitarian need and that the States Parties to the Convention as well as the OPCW should pay urgent attention to meeting these needs. NAM highlighted the importance of the CWC at the 22nd Conference of the States Parties (CSP-22) which News From Non -Aligned World was organised by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and took place from November 27 –December 1, 2017 at Hague, Netherlands. Speaking on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement, H.E. Ambassador Haifa Aissami Madah, Permanent Representative of Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to the OPCW attached great importance to the universality of the Convention and in this context hereby strongly called on the other States not Party to the Convention to accede to it without further delay and precondition. NAM’s position that States remaining outside the Convention should not be able to take advantage of any of the benefits it offers to the States Parties was also emphasised. NAM reaffirmed that the implementation of the Article X of the CWC on assistance and protection against chemical weapons make a significant contribution to countering the threats of use of chemical weapons. Article X calls on each State Party undertakes to facilitate, and participate in, the fullest possible exchange of equipment, material and scientific and technological information concerning means of protection against chemical weapons. NAM CWC State Parties attach paramount significance to the full and non-discriminatory implementation of Article XI of the CWC which states that the States Parties shall: (a) Have the right, individually or collectively, to conduct research with, to develop, produce, acquire, retain, transfer, and use chemicals; (b) Undertake to facilitate, and have the right to participate in, the fullest possible exchange of chemicals, equipment and scientific and technical information relating to the development and application of chemistry for purposes not prohibited under this Convention; (c) Not maintain among themselves any restrictions, including those in any international agreements, incompatible with the obligations undertaken under this Convention, which would restrict or impede trade and the development and promotion of scientific and technological knowledge in the field of chemistry for industrial, agricultural, research, medical, pharmaceutical or other peaceful purposes; (d) Not use this Convention as grounds for applying any measures other than those provided for, or permitted, under this Convention nor use any other international agreement for pursuing an objective (15) January, <strong>2018</strong>
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