ハイチにおける食料安全保障に関する経社理特別会合における山中大使ステートメント
令和5年6月16日
(As delivered)
Thank you, Madam President.
I would like to start by thanking ECOSOC and the Ad Hoc Advisory Group on Haiti for organizing this meeting in a timely manner.
Japan is concerned about the humanitarian situation in Haiti.
In light of the situation, Japan has been providing assistance to Haiti both from short-term and long-term perspectives. Firstly, from the short-term perspective, Japan provided 1.85 million USD worth of rice, beans, vegetable oil, through WFP to people in need of food and nutrition in Haiti in February this year. In January this year, Japan provided 3 million USD to UNICEF, WFP and IFRC as emergency humanitarian grants for health, water and sanitation, and food assistance to Haiti in response to the spread of cholera in the country. It is our hope that this assistance will lead to an improvement in the humanitarian crisis facing Haiti.
Secondly, Japan’s long-term perspective is based upon the understanding that in Haiti, more than 50% of the labor force is employed in agriculture, but due to a lack of agricultural infrastructure, the country's cereal self-sufficiency rate has hovered around 30% in recent years. Thus, it is important to improve the production efficiency and increase the production volume of Haitian agriculture. With this in mind, Japan has been supporting the development of Haiti's agricultural infrastructure by providing Japanese tractors, well-drilling equipment, and dump trucks.
On top of this, more than 80% of rice is acquired through imports, leading to ongoing food shortages exacerbated by domestic inflation and increasing global grain prices. Japan has played a significant role in enhancing Haiti's food security by consistently supplying rice, including rice of Japanese origin, to the country.
In order to respond to the humanitarian crisis in Haiti, including food insecurity, it is important to act now and provide assistance. In this regard, I would like to echo the close relevance of human security to food security in Haiti, pointed out by the Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines as well as the Permanent Representative of Barbados. With this in mind, as well as our solidarity to people in Haiti, Japan will continue to support Haiti in cooperation with the international community and work for peace and stability in Haiti and the region as a whole as a member of the Security Council.
Thank you Madam.
I would like to start by thanking ECOSOC and the Ad Hoc Advisory Group on Haiti for organizing this meeting in a timely manner.
Japan is concerned about the humanitarian situation in Haiti.
In light of the situation, Japan has been providing assistance to Haiti both from short-term and long-term perspectives. Firstly, from the short-term perspective, Japan provided 1.85 million USD worth of rice, beans, vegetable oil, through WFP to people in need of food and nutrition in Haiti in February this year. In January this year, Japan provided 3 million USD to UNICEF, WFP and IFRC as emergency humanitarian grants for health, water and sanitation, and food assistance to Haiti in response to the spread of cholera in the country. It is our hope that this assistance will lead to an improvement in the humanitarian crisis facing Haiti.
Secondly, Japan’s long-term perspective is based upon the understanding that in Haiti, more than 50% of the labor force is employed in agriculture, but due to a lack of agricultural infrastructure, the country's cereal self-sufficiency rate has hovered around 30% in recent years. Thus, it is important to improve the production efficiency and increase the production volume of Haitian agriculture. With this in mind, Japan has been supporting the development of Haiti's agricultural infrastructure by providing Japanese tractors, well-drilling equipment, and dump trucks.
On top of this, more than 80% of rice is acquired through imports, leading to ongoing food shortages exacerbated by domestic inflation and increasing global grain prices. Japan has played a significant role in enhancing Haiti's food security by consistently supplying rice, including rice of Japanese origin, to the country.
In order to respond to the humanitarian crisis in Haiti, including food insecurity, it is important to act now and provide assistance. In this regard, I would like to echo the close relevance of human security to food security in Haiti, pointed out by the Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines as well as the Permanent Representative of Barbados. With this in mind, as well as our solidarity to people in Haiti, Japan will continue to support Haiti in cooperation with the international community and work for peace and stability in Haiti and the region as a whole as a member of the Security Council.
Thank you Madam.