SG/SM/8623, AFR/573
Following are remarks by Secretary-General
Kofi Annan at the opening meeting of the G-8 Contact Group on Food Security
in Africa in New York:
I am pleased to welcome you to the United
Nations for this first meeting of your contact group.
Your focus on food security in Africa
comes at a crucial time. The latest food crisis in the continent
has brought home to us, more than ever before, the urgent need for a strategy
to break the pattern of recurrent crises and bring about a Green Revolution
in Africa. But achieving this will require radical approaches on
