India urges global action to protect sea lanes amid food security fears

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : India said the UN Security Council should focus on mitigating the humanitarian consequences of conflict by facilitating safe, rapid and unimpeded humanitarian access, supporting de-confliction arrangements where appropriate, and ensuring that the Council's own measures, including sanctions regimes, do not inadvertently hamper humanitarian assistance or legitimate food and agricultural trade.
49% : He added that the UN's latest Hunger Hotspots report showed conflict and violence were the main drivers in 12 of the 13 hunger hotspots of greatest concern.
42% : Speaking at a UN Security Council high-level open debate on Tuesday on food crises in conflict situations, India said the Council's immediate priority should be to reduce the humanitarian impact of war, while UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that conflict is driving acute hunger across much of the world.
37% : India's Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador Harish Parvathaneni, said, "Food insecurity remains one of the gravest humanitarian consequences of armed conflict.
35% : Referring to the continuing US-Israel war against Iran, Guterres said the Strait of Hormuz carries around a fifth of global oil supplies and a third of global fertiliser trade.

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