Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh shared three lessons drawn from Vietnam’s poverty reduction work and proposed three strategic guarantees for the global hunger eradication and poverty reduction effort, at the G20 Summit 2024 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
The summit, themed “Building a just world and a sustainable planet”, draws the largest number of leaders, including 19 countries of the G20 members, 19 guest countries and 15 key international organizations.
PM Chinh called for stronger political determination, greater resources, and more decisive actions to implement poverty reduction programs. He stressed that poverty reduction is one of the most critical foundations for ensuring peace, security, and stability worldwide, and highlighted Vietnam’s achievements as a success model in this scheme.
He shared three key lessons from Vietnam’s success in hunger eradication and poverty reduction, namely refraining from purely economic growth at the expense of social welfare, progress, equity, and the environment; attaching special importance to food security and taking agriculture as a pillar of the economy; taking people as the center and prioritizing investment in people, and developing high-quality human resources associated with science and technology and innovation.
Building on these lessons, he proposed three strategic guarantees to fight hunger and poverty globally.
First is to ensure peace, stability, and development cooperation as a prerequisite for eradicating hunger and achieving inclusive growth. He recommended that the G20 Summit should take the lead in promoting peace, stability, and development cooperation; avoiding the politicization of science and technology as well as development issues, particularly in trade, agriculture, and food security.
Second, Chinh underlined the necessity of ensuring a global agro-food system that is efficient, stable, adaptable, and resilient to climate change as a long-term foundation. He called on the G20 to speed up technology transfer, provide technical assistance, concessional financing, and smart governance for developing and less-developed countries in transitioning to green and sustainable agriculture.
And the last is to ensure investment in people, with education, training, and social welfare as key priorities to build a harmonious, inclusive, and sustainable society with the people at the center, as the subject, the goal, the driving force, and the important resource for sustainable development. Chinh also emphasized the need to prioritize resources and develop practical, feasible, and effective policies for hunger eradication and poverty reduction, towards “leaving no one behind”.
Concluding his speech, Prime Minister Chinh affirmed Vietnam’s commitment to upholding multilateralism and close international solidarity, and actively contribute to the common effort of building a world free from poverty.
Vietnam is ready to share experiences and coordinate with other countries to implement South-South and trilateral programs to ensure food security and fight against global poverty. (Dangcongsan, Laodong)