New York: Vietnam is committed to actively contributing to global efforts to maintain international peace and security through cooperation to address impact of climate change and food insecurity, Minister Counsellor and deputy head of the Permanent Delegation of Vietnam to the United Nations Nguyen Hoang Nguyen has said.
Addressing the UN Security Council’s high-level open debate on ‘Impact of Climate Crisis, Food Insecurity on Efforts to Achieve Peace, Development’ on February 14, Nguyen emphasised that poverty is both the root and a consequence of conflicts, while climate change is a factor that worsens food insecurity and increases threats to international peace and stability.
The UN Security Council needs and can do more to break the vicious cycle of climate change, food insecurity and conflicts, he stated.
First, the council needs to promote its role in preventing conflicts, take a more comprehensive and balanced approach between traditional and non-traditional security threats. Second, it is necessar
y to strengthen consultation and coordination with UN agencies, relevant mechanisms and initiatives at the international, regional and national levels to promptly handle security risks from climate change and food insecurity. And third, it is also important to ensure compliance with international law and the UN Charter in conflicts, the Vietnamese representative said.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres underscored that climate chaos and food crises are serious and mounting threats to global peace and security and, as such, should be addressed by the Security Council.
Participants called on global cooperation, including in further promoting the role of the UN and its Security Council, to ease impact of climate change and food insecurity, especially in conflict-hit countries and regions./.
Source: Vietnam News Agency
Parliament, The House of Representatives voted 269 to 147 to approve the committee report on the results of the study. “Landbridge” even though 3 “Moving Forward” MPs resigned, the committee criticized the report “Sirikanya” said she had run out of words, the committee estimated too much income.
By Ms. Sirikanya Tansakul, list MP for the Progressive Party, tells about the reasons for resigning. Because reasons cannot be given in this report. There has been almost no change since he resigned, with fellow MPs not saying that there are flags in the process. He thinks that it is not wrong that most of the committee members, especially those from the government side, probably have a flag from home that they should do this project. But what needs to be worrying is the results of the study that led to this flag. Study carefully, thoroughly, is it correct, are there reasonable assumptions? He performed his duties as normal. The agency responsible for making the report was asked from the Office of Transport and Traff
ic Policy and Planning (OTP), which is the precursor agency for this report. that the flag that the government gave How can I confidently follow the flag? But he didn’t get the answer he wanted many times. Many agenda items that were asked for were cut off. The data is still not available. That’s more serious than that. Instead, they used the OTP’s report without careful consideration. Whether it is a shipping route Port growth calculation He still doesn’t know whether he can believe the OTP’s report or not.
‘The income from the port is very high. In the first year, it is said that the income from the port will be 58,000 million baht. I think no one in the committee knows. Except that it comes from the OTP to know about this. In the second progress report, this was not even mentioned. I have read There is no income from oil sales. But today it has arrived. 58,000 million comes from income from oil sales, 50,000 million, and from port income, only 8,000 million baht. 50,000 million comes from oil sales. How w
ill it come? Think about it if we don’t have our own refinery,’ Ms. Sirikanya said.
Miss Sirikanya said that there were no words to say what we were studying. What errors is this report confirming? The Prime Minister must speak to foreigners about this project. Even though the inside is like this We are not in opposition. We must oppose everything. But we must maintain a certain image of our Prime Minister’s credibility. He does not have a problem with the development of the southern region. If there will be a new report I would be very pleased. to study again Then it’s worth it. He was happy to support that new project.
Mr. Chullaphong Yukaset, MP for the Kao Klai Party, said whether this project will happen or not depends on the government. He emphasized that the Progressive Party does not hinder the development of the southern region. The reason he resigned was not because he was a child. This project has many agencies preparing reports. Why did you choose to use the OTP’s report and throw out the NESDB’
s study results? Why not include both agencies and compare them?
‘President, sir. When we buy our things, where do we look? We trust the salesman, right? The Prime Minister himself said that he was a salesman from Thailand. Therefore, the person he will buy He must have trust in the Prime Minister and numbers,’ Mr. Chullaphong said.
Mr. Chulphong also stated that on environmental issues, he had experts compare the amount of carbon transported in the Land Bridge project with the carbon transported by ship in the Malacca Strait. It was found that Landbridge was 14 times higher, raising the question of who would lend the money. I would like to stop talking about numbers and cost-effectiveness and ask to talk about humanity. Since this project came into being, he has been in the area. People said they couldn’t eat, couldn’t sleep, and didn’t know where they would die. which is the humanity of the people in the project We must care more than anything else.
While Mr. Suphanat Minchainan, MP for Bangkok, Kao Klai
Party, discussed that he had issues that needed to be raised, the first issue was that he had never opposed the project. If there is a Land Bridge project or a project that can make southern people rich He is happy to support But now I want to prove the truth of this report’s numbers. He only wants correctness.
Second point Summary study report and without finding the truth all around Third point I would like to call this report contradictory, cut and paste, and not really usable.
‘The strength of the project Avoid the problem of congestion in navigation in the strait. But in fact, which committee can prove that the strait is congested? Have we seen it with our own eyes? The private sector also said that it was not crowded or cramped, that it was really crowded. is the Port of Singapore It’s not the strait itself. And he didn’t go to prove it. And today the Singapore port has a port plan. to accommodate additional ships If it’s so narrow that it can’t go Why invest more? The easiest way is to send someone t
o go live and finish it right here, so we can see if it’s crowded or not,’ Mr. Suphanat said.
Mr. Suphanat also said that the number of people creating jobs is 280,000 people. I don’t know where this number came from. How much salary will you hire? No one could imagine it.
‘GDP says it will grow from 4% to 5.5%, wow, quarterly GDP, do you have the intelligence to calculate that much in advance? Where do you get the numbers from? What about the opportunity costs from tourism? The fishing career that he lost and the environment were never even considered in the calculation,’ Mr. Suphanat said.
Mr. Suphanat reiterated in an emotional tone that why would he set up a committee if he were to adhere to the OTP? He viewed such investment as a joint investment. There must be benefits involved.
‘We put in both money, land, concessions, and business deals to invest in exchange for concessions. We need to know what the project’s costs, income, and opportunity cost are. Businesspeople investing must negotiate. If you
are confused, how can you negotiate? Because there are no principles,’ Mr. Suphanat said.
Then, after members spent 4 hours and 15 minutes discussing and expressing their opinions, the meeting passed a resolution. Agreed with the report 269 votes, disagreed 147 votes, abstained 2, did not vote 1 vote, it was concluded that the meeting agreed with this report.
Source: Thai News Agency