ambassador to the un linda thomas greenfield. >> good morning. thank you. well, welcome today, today's symposium. we are so pleased to have you. the symposium is cohosted with the council on foreign relations and the global health security and diplomacy. the is department of state. i direct the global health program here on the council of foreign relations. i think there are three takeaways you should take from today's packed and totally amazing agenda. the first is that the effort to ensure global health security remains a focus of our regular diplomatic discourse. remains a high priority even as covid-19, the crisis waynesburg you can see the from the terrific speakers we have today. multiple u.s. cabinet officials, leaders of it or governmental institutions and regional alliances, high-level representatives of foreign governments, ceos, leading practitioners, civil society luminaries. the second takeaways i withdraw from today's agenda is a global health security is very much a wide-ranging affair your drawing engagement of many governments, institutions

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such words were spoken by the representative of the usa, linda thomas greenfield, during the sessionthe un council. the meeting on how the war affects ukrainian infrastructure and world food security was convened by the usa and albania. deputy secretary general oon myroslav yencha said that since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, 10,000 ukrainian civilians have already died, and more than 18,000 have been injured. according to his information, almost 360 ukrainians received help from the united nations, but more than 15 million need winter clothing, building materials, and heating devices. matthew holinward, director of the un world food program in ukraine, said that losses in agriculture have already amounted to more than 40 billion dollars. linda thomas greenfield added that currently, ukraine produces 35% less wheat than before the war, and she began her speech by mentioning the 90th anniversary of the holodomor. this month we celebrate the 90th anniversary of the holodomor. it translates as death by starvation. millions of ukrainian women, men, and children died because o

secretary blinken, ambassador thomas-greenfield, secretary general, my brothers ambassador and dr. tedros, ladies and gentlemen, excellencies, greeting from geneva at thank you for inviting me to join the lineup for this event. this is the right time to update on how we think about foreign policy diplomacy and the pursuit of global health security. the covid-19 pandemic response demonstrated that international cooperation, coordination and communication are essential for governments to protect the health of their populations. it also underscored that open global trade is indispensable for global health security. trade was a mechanism for speeding up the production deployment of everything -- to vaccines. at the wto we helped supply chains open to working with vaccine companies ceos, to address problems with the first flow of manufacture doses. on the negative side of the ledger, we solve the vulnerabilities created by geographic concentration at the production of a handful of critical goods. some government restricted -- and in the scramble for vaccines all countries were relegated

secretary blinken, ambassador thomas-greenfield, secretary general, my brothers ambassador and dr. tedros, ladies and gentlemen, excellencies, greeting from geneva at thank you for inviting me to join the lineup for this event. this is the right time to update on how we think about foreign policy diplomacy and the pursuit of global health security. the covid-19 pandemic response demonstrated that international cooperation, coordination and communication are essential for governments to protect the health of their populations. it also underscored that open global trade is indispensable for global health security. trade was a mechanism for speeding up the production deployment of everything -- to vaccines. at the wto we helped supply chains open to working with vaccine companies ceos, to address problems with the first flow of manufacture doses. on the negative side of the ledger, we solve the vulnerabilities created by geographic concentration at the production of a handful of critical goods. some government restricted -- and in the scramble for vaccines all countries were relegated

anthony fauci joins biden administration officials including linda thomas-greenfield use ambassador to u.n. to speak about global health securities at a symposium hosted by the counsel for the relations. watch anything eastern on c-span2 call c-span out our free mobile video app or online at c-span.org. >> tonight what c-span's a series in partnership with the library of congress "books that shaped america." we will future milton & rose friedman book free to choose. the book was written in 1980 shortly after developing a television series by the same name and argues for free trade,, lower taxes, limited government regulation and school choice best seller free to choose continues to spark debate today. in 1976 milton friedman won the nobel prize for economics and was an advisor to british prime minister margaret thatcher and president ronald reagan presented with the medal of freedom in 1980. lecture of economics at university of california santa barbara and also of milton friedman ah biography will join us on the program to discuss the book. watch "books that shaped america" featuring

ambassador to the un linda thomas greenfield. >> good morning. >> thank you. well, welcome to today's symposium on health security in the 21st century we are pleased to have you. this symposium is cohosted with the council on foreign relations and the global health security and diplomacy bureau at the department of state. i am tom i direct the global health program here at the council on foreign relations. i think there are three takeaways you should take from today's impact totally amazing agenda. the first is the effort to ensure global health i security remains a focus of our regular diplomatic discourse. for me it is a high priority even as covid-19 crisis wanes. you canvi see that from the terrific speakers we have today. multiple u.s. cabinet officials, leaders of intergovernmental institutions and regional alliances. high level representatives of foreign government, ceos, leading practitioners andac luminaries. this second take away i would draw from today's agenda is global health security is very much a wide ranging affair. drawing and gauge admitted

linda thomas greenfield went i think november of last year. having spent some time i think that's really staved off the famine. season after season of drought when you combine that with al-shabaab, they burn cattle a d fields, they drive people out of their homes and lands, they kidnap. it's such a dire situation and not getting attention on the worlde stage because we are so focused on other crises around the world. i was proud we were able to bring that story back to the u.s. that i don't think is told very often. >> were you able to see them training a together or the isr providers, what did they allow you to view while you were there and do you feel you had enough access? >> we were supposed to interview the president and he bailed on us at the last minute. but it would have been nice to have a somali voice and it. we talked to some officials but they were off-camera. the one thing i would say and i'm probably preaching tooi the choir when you're doing stories like this obviously you want to see as much as possible. with any kind of overhe

yes, even the us ambassador lindsey thomas greenfield, who did not vote for this resolution pitch. she abstained. she said that she supported many of the things in the resolution of important, i think, to remind you of the key probation of this rabbit resolution. the security council now calls this is binding international. remember, for the urgent and extended humanitarian pauses in car doors throughout the gaza strip for a sufficient number of days to enable consistent with international humanitarian, little the full rapids safe. a non hindered humanitarian access for united nations humanitarian agencies and the implementing partners. so they have now said they have now voted for not just a pause of a few hours, but something which would be a sufficient number of days to allow the a to spread out all over the gaza strip. will israel comply, i think is quite the question. i mean, how do you go about enforcing them? well, it is binding international, but we know there are many security council resolutions that are binding international law that israel does not comply with. uh, but

felt they had to let this tax go through. yara, in those 29 days between the point where the thomas greenfield, the us on basset to put her hand up in the security council and declared a veto. and on wednesday, when she decides to abstain on a pretty similar resolution, i did the calculations, grim calculations, and we're going by the ministry of health. so it goes from garza, which most people not these riley's but most people's think of property under reported that were $7600.00 additional das, $3653.00 of those with children. i mean, the situation is, is catastrophic. and, and we see with each resolution that fails to cool for the cx, 5 thousands of palestinians will be killed. i mean, the un agencies have been, i've been waiting of starvation, severe dehydration, outbreaks of diseases. so we're not just talking about palestinians who were killed from the bottom and we're talking about posting is that it's going to be a that, that the, i'd been killed because of the intensification of the seats. and i say intensification because of course golf has been on the seas for over a decade and a ha

according to linda thomas greenfield, in one attack on ukraine, russia destroys 60,000 tons of grain and deprives. food for more than 2000 people. as stalin, putin uses food as a weapon of war, and like stalin putin inflicted famine and death on ukraine. so, let's be clear: russia is not only waging a war against the people of ukraine and its food supply, it is also a war against vulnerable people around the world who depend on food exports from ukraine. we know that russia has exacerbated global food security, before the full-scale russian invasion, ukraine was one of the leading producers and exporters of agricultural products, but ukraine's wheat production is now 35% lower than the pre-war volume, why. because russia stole ukrainian grain, sabotaged agricultural land, shelled ukraine's agricultural infrastructure and port cities. the fact that russia planned an artificial famine in ukraine is said not only at the un level. the international human rights company global rights compliance conducted an investigation and found evidence that the kremlin, even before the full-scale inva

i guess we'll let a thomas greenfield was talking about the reason the united states abstained from this resolution as opposed to voting for or against it. she said that the united states supported the call for humanitarian access, but was disappointed that the resolution didn't include a condemnation of hamas, or is israel's right to defend itself. and i pointed out to her that the last resolution that saved the toad also didn't include those elements, but did include humanitarian access and asked why the united states waited 4 weeks . and during which time thousands more children died to let it pass essentially. and her answer didn't directly address my question, but she said that that was a political resolution, and this is a humanitarian one. even though the humanitarian ask for pauses is quite similar. the resolution does not specify a time for these pauses. it says as needed to get in, but nonetheless, the united states now saying that it is needed in the united states saying that even more scaling up is needed to help the people on the ground in gaza and that they would continue t

ambassador to the united nations is linda thomas-greenfield.e covered her remarks at the united nations just in recent weeks. you can find it if you go to our website, c-span.org, c-span now, our free mobile app. also yesterday we covered a news conference by secretary of state antony blinken, and the headline from his news conference was that he said gaza must be -- must not be reoccupied. excuse me. must not be reoccupied and should be run by palestinians. if you missed his comments you can find them again on c-span.org, our free mobile video app, c-span now. steven anderson says this. we should supporth biden bill. it hasun for israel, ukraine, the border, and taiwan. get it over and done with, then concentrate on the u.s. budget. the border. trade. and continued growth in manufacturing jobs. president biden is bringing back to the united states. aaron in florida. independence. caller: good morning, good morning. first, how want to say that i am in favor of biden's efforts to bring spending back stateside. however, i think that we are still

ambassador to the un linda thomas greenfield.