- Title: UNITED NATIONS: PRESIDENT FORD'S FIRST MAJRO FOREIGN POLICY STATEMENT.
- Date: 19th September 1974
- Summary: 1. GV INTERIOR General Assembly 0.13 2. SCU Ford 2.40 A transcript follows: FORD: The United States recognises the special responsibility we bear as the world's largest producer of food. That is why Secretary Kissinger proposed from this podium last year a World Food Conference to define a global fool policy. And that is one reason why we have removed domestic restrictions on food production in the United States. It has not been our policy to use food as a political weapon despite the oil embargo and recent oil price and production decisions. "it would be tempting for the United States -- beset by inflation and soaring energy prices -- to turn a deaf ear to external appeals for food assistance, or to respond to internal appeals for export controls. But however difficult our own economic situation, we recognise the plight of others is worse." "Americans have always responded to human emergencies in the past. We respond again today." "In response to Secretary General Waldheim's appeal and to help meet the long term challenge in food, I reiterates:" "To help developing nations realise their aspiration to grow more of their own food, the United States will substantially increase its assistance to agriculture production programmes in other countries." "Next, to ensure that the survival of millions of our fellow men does not depend upon the vagaries of weather, the Untied States is prepared to join in a world-wide effort to negotiate, establish and maintain an international system of food reserves. But each nation must determine for itself how it manages its reserves." Initials OS/1930 OS/1930 This film includes a two minute segment of the President's speech. Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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