May 18, 2008 (LPAC)-- On Sunday, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak called for an international dialogue on the growing food crisis at the World Economic Forum. This call occurs in the in the context of two major political battlegrounds in the growing escalation, internationally against the Bristish Empire: 1)The food crisis, and 2)U.S. economist and statesman Lyndon LaRouche's "4 Powers" alliance. Remember, two weeks ago Bueso party and Schiller Institute Chairwoman Helga Zepp-LaRouche called on world leaders to make doubling food production globally the leading issue of the upcoming United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization conference, and just 2 days ago the foreign ministers of Russia, China, and India met to form an asymmetric alliance against the British orchestrated destabilizations and war drive around the world. Also, Egypt is one of the forty nations to experience severe food riots. So, the Egyptian President's call comes at a crucial phase of history. The President began by identifying the aspects of the crisis including the massive speculation in food prices as a chief cause of the rise in food prices. Then he attacks the destruction of food for biofuels saying:
"The Davos conference is returning to Sharm El-Sheikh as the Middle East and the world are facing a crossroads, amid difficult regional and international conditions. The world is facing an acute economic crisis that started with the collapse of the U.S. mortgage credit market, together with which the expectations for the rates of growth of the world economy declined. Severe inflationary currents are sweeping the world, where we are witnessing unprecedented record hikes in prices of energy, basic food stuff and raw materials. These are throwing the greater part of their impact and consequences on poor nations, and the people of least income within each nation....
"Ensuring food security for the poor is an essential challenge. It is a great responsibility towards the poor and those of lower income, including the poor in the rich, developed nations. And this target must not become a subject for speculation that raise the price of food, or other tendencies that use the food of human beings as fuel in car motors. Is it reasonable that some would go ahead with the production of biofuels with support from the governments for its producers? Is it reasonable or even acceptable that agricultural crops are used for the production of ethanol to make the crisis of food prices worse?"
He ended up calling for an international dialogue on the crisis and will volunteer himself to lead the charge on this dialogue at the FAO conference:
"The international community is in need for reassessing the real cost of the production of biofuels, including all its social and environmental effects, and its consequences for the food security of humans. The need for an international dialog is becoming urgent, where the exporters and importers of energy and food from developing and industrial nations meet around one table: A dialog which would present solutions ensuring the meeting of the needs of the world population for food, and provides, in the same time, the necessary supplies of energy internationally: A dialog which will result in solutions that we all agree on and commit ourselves to.... We are facing a vicious cycle, imposed by the correlation between food supplies and energy, whereby each of the two factors become both a cause and an effect, simultaneously, for the current crisis of the world economy. The two are threatening to turn the crisis into a permanent one, unless we move swiftly to contain them... I will carry this call for dialog on this important international issue to the coming meeting of the FAO in Rome next month. And I am looking forward to seeing this meeting placing both the developing and industrial nations on the right track."
