Ambassador Mai Phan Dung, Permanent Representative of Vietnam to the United Nations (UN), has affirmed that ensuring food security remains a top priority of countries, including Vietnam, especially in the context of climate change.
Ambassador Mai Phan Dung (L), Permanent Representative of Vietnam to the United Nations (UN) in Geneva, at the dialogue. (Photo: VNA)
Geneva (VNA) - Ambassador Mai Phan Dung,Permanent Representative of Vietnam to the United Nations (UN), has affirmedthat ensuring food security remains a top priority of countries, including Vietnam,especially in the context of climate change.
Climate change impacts have worsened the vulnerabilityto poverty and malnutrition, he explained while addressing an interactivedialogue on the High Commissioner’s report on climate change, which took placewithin the framework of the 55th session of the UN Human RightsCouncil in Geneva on March 13.
On behalf of the core group for climate change andhuman rights, comprising Vietnam, Bangladesh and the Philippines, Dung saidclimate change makes food production and access increasingly difficult,especially in vulnerable areas, and undermines food security, nutrition, andthe full realisation of the right to food.
The ambassador thanked the High Commissioner for mentioning the issue through his report and providing recommendations about how tomitigate the adverse impacts of climate change on the right to food.
He asked the High Commissioner to clarify hisproposal on building and implementing policies that ensure a just transition tomore sustainable food systems.
Dung also suggested him recommend measures for countries,especially those with export orientations, to convert farming activities toensure food security, raise their resilience to climate change, and maintainstable livelihoods and prosperity./.
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Nghia affirmed that this is a milestone of special significance, affirming and honouring the the Vietnamese revolutionary press’s glorious tradition of 100 years of serving the revolutionary cause of the Party, serving the Fatherland, and serving the people.
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Ambassador Mai Phan Dung (L), Permanent Representative of Vietnam to the United Nations (UN) in Geneva, at the dialogue. (Photo: VNA) 
