FAO hands over award to Uzbekistan
03/06/2015 11:38
FAO hands over award to Uzbekistan
03/06/2015 11:38
Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) will hand over an award to Uzbekistan for success in improving food situation in the country. The awarding ceremony will be held in Rome, Italy.
Some 130 ministers, 12 heads of state or government, and numerous other high-level government representatives will be converging on Rome next week for the 39th session of the Organization’s governing Conference (6-13 June).
During the week-long event, countries that have achieved international hunger targets will be recognized for their efforts, and the Conference will elect the new Director-General and approve the Organization’s program of work and budget for the next two years.
On Sunday, 7 June, a special Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Awards ceremony will be held to recognize 15 countries that have demonstrated extraordinary progress in eradicating extreme hunger.
Angola, Bolivia, China, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Gabon, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Mali, Myanmar, Mozambique, Nepal, Oman, the Solomon Islands, Suriname, and Uzbekistan will be recognized for having now achieved the Millennium Development Goal 1c of halving the proportion of people in their countries experiencing chronic hunger, or the stricter World Food Summit (WFS) target of halving the total number of hungry people.
Overall, a majority - 72 out of 129 - of countries monitored by FAO have achieved the MDG hunger target, with developing regions as a whole nearly reaching it. In addition, 29 countries have met the more ambitious WFS goal.
At this session, the Conference -- the Organization’s highest governing body -- will cast ballots to select the next FAO Director-General for a four-year term. The current incumbent, José Graziano da Silva, is standing unopposed for re-election.
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