David Beasley: “I am doing this because it is the right thing to do.”

The question to me, to you is how quickly can you react in the major producing countries to offset not just Ukraine, but the crises that we are facing around the world.

I therefore urge the members of this body to take decisive action to prevent a rapidly worsening global food crisis.

Unfortunately, because of the lack of funds that we were faced with in the last few months, we have been having to take food from the hungry children to give to starving children, which is a situation that none of us like to be in.

If we get the resources we need, just like we did over the last 2 years, even with COVID economic crippling effect, we were able to avert famine and destabilization and mass migration because the United States Government responded along…