Verbatim report of proceedings

Wednesday, 6 July 2022 - Strasbourg

23.4. Addressing food security in developing countries (A9-0195/2022 - Beata Kempa)

Mündliche Erklärungen zur Abstimmung

  Mick Wallace (The Left). – Madam President, UNICEF reports that every minute a child is pushed into hunger in the 15 countries most ravaged by the global food crisis. And it’s an interesting list of countries. Four of them – Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali and Niger – long—suffering prisoners of France’s criminal colonial currency system in the Sahel, and for a decade dealing with the fallout from NATO’s war of aggression on Libya. Yemen, reeling from seven years of embargo and US/EU-made weapons intentionally dropped on their food and water production infrastructure. Haiti, whose last independent leader in 2004 was removed in a coup by France and the US. This country will never stop being punished for their revolutionary spirit. Afghanistan, who after 20 years of illegal occupation and bombing by NATO forces, was sanctioned and robbed by the US. Now 93% of Afghans are facing hunger and we can’t even help them.

Not only does this report ignore the fact that we imposed the sanctions that have caused the present food crisis, it also ignores the principal role the political West has played in ensuring that so many of these countries face hunger.

  Die Präsidentin. – Damit ist dieser Tagesordnungspunkt geschlossen.