This article was produced as a part of the joint media project between The Non-profit International Press Syndicate Group and Soka Gakkai International in Consultative Status with ECOSOC.
しかし、この楽観論を共有しない声も少なくない。マレーシアに拠点を置くシンクタンク「Third World Network(TWN)」は、「今回のサミットは、COVID-19に起因する食料危機にも、持続不可能で不健康、不公正な食料システムを生み出している構造的要因にも向き合っていない」と指摘し、国連が企業利益に過度に配慮していると批判している。
Blue Marble Evaluation Networkのマイケル・クイン・パットン氏によれば、そこから浮かび上がった主要テーマは、「変革とは、部分的な改革にとどまらない、大規模で深く広範な変化を意味する」という点であった。これは、公平性を優先課題とし、女性農民、先住民族、小規模農家など、これまで周縁化されてきた人々の声を力づけつつ、食料システムに関わるすべての人を利害関係者として位置づけることを意味する。パットン氏はまた、「対話参加者たちは一貫して、地域に根ざした食料システムの重要性を強調した。異なる文脈には異なる解決策が必要だからだ」と語っている。
しかし、2カ国の関心は薄れ、1987年まで新たな計画は浮上しなかった。IAEAの歴史を編纂したデヴィッド・フィッシャーは、当時の反応をこう振り返った。「20年近く、イタリアとオランダの計画については音沙汰がなかった。……NPTの抜け穴は空文化しつつあった。しかし、1987年、カナダ政府が原子力潜水艦の小艦隊を取得する計画であるという驚くべき発表を行った。……NPT、IAEA保障措置、そして核不拡散全般を強力に支持する国によってなされたという点で、発表はなおさら意外なものだった。」[David Fischer, History of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Vienna (1997) pp.272-3] オーストラリアの発表も、同じように受け止められているに違いない。多くの人にとって安心なことには、カナダは、わずか2年後に原子力潜水艦という選択肢を放棄した。
タリク・ラウフは、以前、国際原子力機関(IAEA)で事務局長直属の検証・安全保障政策課長(Head of Verification and Security Policy Coordination Office, reporting to the Director General)を務めた。また、過去にカナダ議会国防委員会および外交委員会の顧問を務めた。本記事は、個人的見解を表明したものである。
BERLIN (IDN) — Veteran journalist Thalif Deen has been appointed IDN-InDepthNews Advisor on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Arms Control Issues & Senior Writer at the United Nations. IDN is the flagship of the Non-profit global media agency International Press Syndicate. He has been covering the United Nations since the late 1970s.
Beginning with the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, he has covered virtually every major UN conference: on population, human rights, the environment, sustainable development, food security, humanitarian aid, arms control and nuclear disarmament.
As the former UN Bureau Chief for Inter Press Service (IPS) news agency, Deen was cited twice for excellence in UN reporting at the annual awards presentation of the UN Correspondents’ Association (UNCA). In November 2012, he was on the IPS team which won the prestigious gold medal for reporting on the global environment—and in 2013, he shared the gold, this time with the UN Bureau Chief of Reuters news agency, for his reporting on the humanitarian and development work of the United Nations.
A former information officer at the UN Secretariat, he served twice as a member of the Sri Lanka delegation to the UN General Assembly sessions. His track record includes a stint as deputy news editor of the Sri Lanka Daily News and senior editorial writer on the Hong Kong Standard.
As military analyst, Deen was also Director, Foreign Military Markets at Defense Marketing Services; Senior Defense Analyst at Forecast International; and military editor Middle East/Africa at Jane’s Information Group. He was a longstanding columnist for the Sri Lanka Sunday Times, U.N. correspondent for Asiaweek, Hong Kong and Jane’s Defence Weekly, London.
A Fulbright scholar with a Master’s Degree (MSc) in Journalism from Columbia University, New York, he is co-author of the 1981 book on “How to Survive a Nuclear Disaster” and author of the 2021 book on the United Nations titled “No Comment – and Don’t Quote me on That”—and subtitled ‘from the Sublime to the Hilarious’, both of which are available on Amazon: https://www.rodericgrigson.com/no-comment-by-thalif-deen email: thalifdeen@gmail.comtmd30@caa.columbia.edu
“Working at the UN during the most dramatic events of our time—from the pursuit of war and peace in the Middle East to the humanitarian disasters in Africa and Asia, this book provides an insider’s view on what went on behind the ‘glass curtain’ during a period of extraordinary turbulence,” writes Roderic Grigson in a book review.
No Comment is told through a series of news stories, interviews, anecdotes, and personal recollections. This compelling page-turner is held together by flashes of surprising humour and an overarching third world focus and point of view.
Though the book’s scenes are scattered, they are individually memorable, evoking amazement and laughter in the same breath. Deen’s colleagues know him “as a raconteur, often entertaining guests at various functions and parties with stories from his vast array of yarns, and this comes through his narrative in abundance”. [IDN-InDepthNews — 19 September 2021]
Collage: Title of ‘No Comment’ (left) Thalif Deen (right)
Photo: The number of people living in extreme poverty has risen in several sub-Saharan African countries and in parts of Latin America and Western Asia. Credit: UN/Logan Abas
The Rhodes Colossus: Caricature of Cecil John Rhodes, after he announced plans for a telegraph line and railroad from Cape Town to Cairo./ By Edward Linley Sambourne (1844–1910) – Punch and Exploring History 1400-1900: An anthology of primary sources, p. 401 by Rachel C. Gibbons, Public Domain