Opening Speech for the UNA_USA Conference

  Good afternoon fellow delegates;

            The country of Sudan is gradually being submerged by the Saharan desert, which by now covers most of North Africa. Due to this natural catastrophe the ramifications are severely damaging Sudan in various ways, one way is that desertification dries the land, and two, necessary resources are scarce to feed our people. Certain key points that we need to address would be the unequal hand of which many countries have dealt with, when discussing BIOFUELS.  This source of green energy does not only take time, but also land and many resources. We all need to bare in mind the fact, that not all countries have been geographically favored by nature; therefore it becomes a laborious task to allocate resources for the people. We are not to judge anyone for how little or much support they have contributed to the production of BIOFUELS, because we cannot categorize every country as an illustrious one, in fact the GDP per average person in Sudan is 1900, while in the USA is 46,000, which is 24 x what a Sudanese person can make. We as a developing country cannot leave our people to starve, and spend our scant resources on BIOFUELS, which is not a necessity for us in the short term. The transition between using oil to operate machinery and using agri-fuels is not written on stone, it is more as an ultimatum that not every individual would consider as right.

     Countries like China and Great Britain have industrialized thanks to the burning of fossil fuels, and even though the government might put certain restrictions on the usage of these un-renewable resources, it is very doubtful that every Corporation will consider this as the righteous thing to do. Sudan being a dependent user of crude oil for exporting facilities, cannot drift away from the idea of using oil, because that is the only way our GDP can grow. But we do not completely oppose the thought of using green energy to reduce carbon foot prints, in fact in 2008 we signed a bilateral agreement with Egypt, which states that we will invest 150 million for producing ethanol, (a source of BIOFUEL), which is still a work in progress. The country of Sudan encourages the members of the United Nations to be unbiased when agreeing upon the usage of BIOFUELS, and to also consider other organic energy resources such as Solar power, which cannot become scarce unless the sun is completely vanished from the Solar System.

Thank you for your time, and I yield my time to questions!