Topic: 2024-Famine in Conflict Zones
Country: Pakistan
Delegate Name: Carter Hilliard
After receiving millions in humanitarian aid from foreign nations in the past few years to help with flood relief, Pakistan is extremely grateful for and in favor of the practice. Because of Pakistan’s recent flood caused famine, Pakistan considers itself to be aligned with areas experiencing famine, including conflict zones. Pakistan supports nearly all measures to prevent and reduce the impact of famine, especially in conflict zones, where the people are already suffering.
Though Pakistan rarely gives humanitarian aid on account of the lacking many essential resources themselves, they are fully supportive of the practice, in particular as a way to help nations experiencing famine. Extreme flooding in 2022 and 2023 caused by monsoon rains lead to a large famine across Pakistan, resulting in many other nations and non-governmental organizations giving around 80 million US dollars to help the situation. This event, as well as previous situations in which Pakistan has received famine related humanitarian aid, lead Pakistan to highly encourage all nations with resources available to assist those experiencing famine however possible.
As a nation that currently is experiencing multiple sources of conflict, both external and internal, Pakistan understands the need for aid in conflict zones. Again, due to their own struggles, Pakistan has not been able to directly provide assistance to conflict zones and has actually received a large amount in aid due to conflict, approximately 120 million US dollars from the UN Refugee Agency alone. Because of this, Pakistan supports all measures to give humanitarian aid to conflict zones, in particular those across Southern Asia and the Middle East.
