'FLAWLESS LOGISTICS FOR WAR': Nepal's PM CONDEMNS Broken Global Food Systems Now!

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Nepalese Prime Minister Balendra Shah addressed the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly, delivering a stark account of catastrophic floods that struck Nepal's mountain communities four weeks earlier, describing what has been called a Himalayan or Mountain Tsunami that killed at least 1,400 people, left over 6,000 still missing, and required an estimated recovery cost of approximately 10 percent of the country's GDP. Shah stated that the flooding, driven by melting permafrost and destabilised Himalayan ecology, crossed international borders, affecting both the Nepal-China frontier and continuing downstream into India, illustrating that climate change does not respect national boundaries. He noted that Nepal contributes less than 0.1 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions yet bears a disproportionate share of climate-related suffering, and thanked India and China for providing prompt assistance following the disaster, while proposing the establishment of a Himalaya Cl

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