SANTIAGO, June 4 (Xinhua) -- Chilean Agriculture Minister Marigen Hornkohl said in Rome Wednesday that multilateralism is the way to tackle the current world food crisis, according to news reaching here.

    Leading a Chilean delegation, Hornkohl made the statement while addressing a United Nations conference entitled "World Food Security: The Defiance of Global Warming and Biofuel."

    Multilateralism is a way "to face global problems and deal with the defiance that we have as a civilization," because "we have to learn to better govern globalization and to strengthen the role of politics in this task," Hornkohl said.

    Hornkohl also called for the successful completion of the Doha Round of the World Trade Organization, saying "the Round must eliminate protectionism and the subsides the developed countries apply to their agriculture and that distort international trade."

    "The grown of the developed countries needs international trade with clear and fair rules. We need globalization to be seen as an opportunity for everybody and not as an agreement where the powerful always win," Hornkohl added.

    Hornkohl said that Chile offers its experience and capacity in agricultural development to create programs of triangular cooperation with countries that are suffering more in the current food crisis.

    "To abandon this situation requires working at the same time indifferent areas, while supporting the UN in its task of generating a quick and efficient international response," Hornkohl said.

    "Chile highly values the Food and Agriculture Organization's actions and the World Program for Food, therefore we support the increment of their funds for humanitarian operations required urgently in the most vulnerable countries," Hornkohl said.