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23.
Stresses the need to make efforts to mobilize and optimize the allocation and
utilization of technical and financial resources from all sources, including external debt
relief for developing countries, and to reinforce national actions to implement sustainable
food security policies;
24.
Calls for successful, development-oriented outcomes of the trade
negotiations held by the World Trade Organization, including on the remaining issues of
the Doha Development Round, as a contribution to the creation of international conditions
permitting the full realization of the right to food;
25.
Stresses that all States should make every effort to ensure that their
international policies of a political and economic nature, including international trade
agreements, do not have a negative impact on the right to food in other countries;
26.
Encourages the Special Rapporteur to continue to cooperate with States in
order to enhance the contribution of development cooperation and food aid to the
realization of the right to food, within existing mechanisms, taking into account the views
of all stakeholders;
27.
Recalls the importance of the New York Declaration on Action against
Hunger and Poverty, and recommends the continuation of efforts aimed at identifying
additional sources of financing for the fight against hunger and poverty;
28.
Recognizes that the promises made at the World Food Summit in 1996 to
halve the number of persons who are undernourished are not being fulfilled, while
recognizing the efforts of Member States in this regard, and once again invites all
international financial and development institutions and relevant United Nations agencies,
funds and programmes to give priority to and provide the funding necessary to realize the
right to food, as set out in the Rome Declaration on World Food Security, and to achieve
the aims of Sustainable Development Goal 2 and other food- and nutrition-related targets;
29.
Reaffirms that integrating food and nutritional support with the goal of
ensuring that all people at all times have access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to
meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life is part of a
comprehensive effort to improve public health, including the response to the spread of
HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other diseases;
30.
Urges States to give adequate priority in their development strategies and
expenditures to the realization of the right to food;
31.
Stresses the importance of international cooperation and development
assistance as an effective contribution to both the expansion and improvement of
agriculture and its environmental sustainability, and the provision of humanitarian food
assistance in activities relating to emergency situations for the realization of the right to
food and the achievement of sustainable food security, while recognizing that each State
has the primary responsibility for ensuring the implementation of national programmes and
strategies in this regard;
32.
Calls upon States to heed the urgent United Nations humanitarian appeal to
assist countries facing drought, starvation and famine with emergency aid and urgent
funding, and underlines that if no immediate response is received, an estimated 20 million
people, most of whom are women and children, risk losing their lives;
33.
Invites all relevant international organizations, including the World Bank and
the International Monetary Fund, to continue to promote policies and projects that have a
positive impact on the right to food, to ensure that partners respect the right to food in the
implementation of common projects, to support strategies of Member States aimed at the
fulfilment of the right to food and to avoid any actions that could have a negative impact on
its realization;
34.
Encourages the Special Rapporteur to continue her collaboration with
relevant international organizations and United Nations agencies, funds and programmes, in
particular the Rome-based ones, including the Food and Agriculture Organization of the
United Nations, the International Fund for Agricultural Development and the World Food
Programme, in order to contribute to ensuring that the right to food is promoted further
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