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TO ALL DIPLOMATIC POSTS COLLECTIVE IMMEDIATE
RUEHTRO/AMEMBASSY TRIPOLI IMMEDIATE 9582

UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 03 STATE 093894 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: EAID ETRD EAGR UNGA
SUBJECT: Demarche Request For UNGA Food Security Event 
Co-Hosted By The Secretary (S/ES: 200916517) 
 
¶1.  This is an ACTION request for all recipient posts 
with the exception of the following: Embassy Harare, 
Embassy Khartoum, Embassy Tegucigalpa, and U.S. Interest 
Section Havana.  For these four posts, this cable is 
INFO only. 
 
¶2.  The Secretary and UNSYG Ban Ki-moon will co-host a 
meeting on Partnering for Food Security on September 26 
on the margins of this year's UN General Assembly. 
Posts are requested to contact appropriate high-level 
officials (preferably the appropriate host-country 
minister attending UNGA) to deliver the invitation 
letter (para 3) and draft statement (para 9) and to 
encourage participation by the minister (e.g., foreign, 
agriculture, or development minister) attending UNGA who 
will have primary responsibility for implementing the 
host country's food security strategy.  Posts should 
please review additional action requests at para 8. 
USAU and USUN please see paras 10 and 11 respectively 
for requests to invite additional officials.  Posts 
should report the results of this demarche as soon as 
possible, and by September 14 at the latest, via cable 
slugged for Gary Clements and Mike Lurie, 
EEB/TPP/MTAA/ABT, and Marisa Plowden, Office of the 
Counselor.  If the host government intends to send a 
representative, but has not determined who, please 
report planned attendance.  There will be no signed 
original. 
 
¶3.  Begin text of letter: 
 
Dear Mr./Madam Minister: 
 
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon joins me in 
inviting you to a meeting on Partnering for Food 
Security to be held at 4:00 p.m. on September 26, 2009, 
at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel.  The meeting will focus on 
five key principles to achieve food security:  (1) 
investment in country-led plans; (2) a comprehensive 
approach to food security that includes support for 
humanitarian assistance, sustainable agricultural 
development, and nutrition; (3) strategic coordination 
of assistance; (4) a strong role for multilateral 
institutions; and (5) a sustained commitment of 
financial resources.  Leaders, including those who 
endorsed a Joint Statement on Global Food Security at 
the L'Aquila G-8 Summit in July and pledged to commit 
$20 billion to the effort over the next three years, 
will speak to these principles and invite others to 
support them. 
 
Your participation in this event will highlight the 
importance all of our countries place on achieving the 
Millennium Development Goal of halving the percentage of 
people experiencing extreme hunger and poverty by the 
year 2015.  Please have your staff inform the U.S. 
Embassy whether you plan to attend this meeting. 
 
I hope to see you in New York on September 26. 
 
Sincerely yours, 
Hillary Rodham Clinton 
 
End text. 
 
¶4.  Secretary Clinton and UN SYG Ban Ki-moon will host a 
global food security event with world leaders on 
September 26 on the margins of the United Nations 
General Assembly in New York.  The aim of the event is 
to broaden support for the principles established at the 
L'Aquila G-8 Summit, centered on a country-led approach 
to advancing food security.  We intend to release from 
the event a statement of principles (the "Statement"-- 
see draft text below).  Posts are requested to convey 
the Secretary's invitation to an appropriate host- 
country minister attending UNGA, urging attendance at 
this meeting, and to share with them the draft 
statement. 
 
¶5.  World leaders gathered at the L'Aquila G-8 summit in 
July issued a Joint Statement on Global Food Security 
that was endorsed by 26 countries - including several 
developing countries and emerging economies - and 
international organizations.  The Joint Statement 
included commitments to support a global food security 
effort whose core principles are country ownership and 
effectiveness. 
 
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¶6.  Secretary Clinton will use the occasion of the UNGA 
to gain broader acceptance for the principles set forth 
in the L'Aquila Joint Statement and echoed in our 
Statement.  She will co-host, with UN SYG Ban Ki-moon, a 
meeting at UNGA that will include leaders from a broad 
range of countries, as well as other stakeholders such 
as foundations, the private sector, and representatives 
of non-governmental organizations.  The meeting will 
focus on five key principles to achieve food security: 
(1) investment in country-led plans; (2) a comprehensive 
approach to food security that includes support for 
humanitarian assistance, sustainable agriculture 
development, and nutrition; (3) strategic coordination 
of assistance; (4) a strong role for multilateral 
institutions; and (5) a sustained commitment of 
financial resources.  Secretary Clinton and UN SYG Ban 
will ask representatives from different countries to 
illuminate each of the five principles for achieving 
food security and will invite additional speakers to 
comment on these presentations.   We expect that those 
countries that endorsed the L'Aquila Joint Statement 
will advocate these principles, as outlined in the 
Statement, and invite others to endorse them. 
 
¶7.  Following this meeting, we expect to work with 
partner countries and others to ensure implementation of 
comprehensive country-led food security investment plans 
in a number of countries over the next year.  We expect 
the Statement to get media attention and to be 
circulated widely among key stakeholders to build global 
support for the five principles.  On September 14-15 the 
United States and the government of Italy will hold in 
Washington a technical meeting with donor- and partner- 
countries that attended the G-8 L'Aquila Summit in 
preparation for the UNGA event.  These countries will 
produce a work plan and schedule that we anticipate will 
be released alongside the Statement at the UNGA meeting. 
 
¶8.  Posts should share the draft statement with host- 
country officials and relay any comments via cable.  We 
hope that those countries that endorsed the L'Aquila 
joint statement will advocate these principles, as 
outlined in the Statement, and we invite others to 
endorse them as well.  Any queries by governments about 
speaking roles for ministers should be conveyed in the 
same cable.  Posts are encouraged to meet with UN 
Resident Coordinators, where appropriate, to discuss how 
best to engage the host country on the principles 
outlined in the draft Statement and discuss 
opportunities for follow-up beyond UNGA. 
 
¶9.  Begin text of draft Statement, "Partnering For Food 
Security": 
 
Today, more than one billion people are hungry.  This is 
unacceptable.  The world community must act together on 
a scale and with the urgency needed to help countries 
and their people achieve food security. 
 
To advance sustainable approaches to reduce hunger and 
poverty, global efforts and partnerships should support 
country-led food security plans. 
 
The following principles set forth at the July 2009 
L'Aquila G-8 summit, and in accordance with the Paris 
Declaration on Aid Effectiveness and the Accra Agenda 
for Action, will guide collective actions: 
 
(1)     Country-led plans:  Sustainable approaches to 
reducing hunger and poverty should be country-led. 
Country-led food security and agriculture development 
plans must be technically sound, reflect domestic 
investment and political will, and be developed in 
consultation with key domestic and international 
stakeholders, including farmers, development partners, 
the private sector, civil society, foundations, and 
research institutions. 
 
(2)     Comprehensive approach to food security:  It is 
necessary to address the full range of issues that 
affect hunger and food security, from increasing 
sustainable agricultural and economic growth to meeting 
emergency needs and addressing under-nutrition.  Markets 
must be developed and regions integrated economically, 
while maintaining the natural resource base and helping 
small-holder farmers, including women. 
 
(3)     Effective coordination of assistance:  Assistance 
should be coordinated at the country, regional, and 
global levels, including through multi-donor 
partnerships and funds to support country-led plans. 
 
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Public benchmarks and targets for efficacy, effective 
monitoring, reporting, and peer review should be 
developed to better coordinate assistance.  All vested 
stakeholders should participate in ensuring efficiency, 
effectiveness and accountability while eliminating 
duplication and gaps. 
 
(4)     Strong role for multilateral institutions:  The 
United Nations and international financial institutions 
should support and partner on this approach to achieving 
food security. 
 
(5)     Sustained commitment of financial resources:  Multi- 
year financial resources and technical assistance should 
be committed, with contributions and progress tracked 
annually. 
 
The collective application of these principles will 
support comprehensive country-led food security 
strategies through inclusive stakeholder participation. 
Multiple institutions and forums will coordinate global 
efforts.  The United Nations, its specialized agencies 
and bodies, the World Bank and international financial 
institutions, regional economic communities, and other 
international groups, institutions, and forums should 
support the application of these principles. 
 
End draft statement. 
 
¶10.  Additional action for USAU:  post is requested to 
invite Chairman Jean Ping of the Commission of the 
African Union. 
 
¶11.  Additional action for USUN New York and Rome: Posts 
are requested to invite David Nabarro, Coordinator, High 
Level Task Force; Josette Sheeran, Executive Director, 
World Food Program; Jacques Diouf, Director General, 
Food and Agriculture Organization; Kanayo Nwanze, 
President, International Fund for Agricultural 
Development; Ann Veneman, Executive Director, UNICEF; 
John Holmes, Under Secretary General for Humanitarian 
Affairs; and Helen Clark, UNDP Administrator. 
 
 
¶12. MINIMIZE CONSIDERED. 
CLINTON