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16 October 008 -- WORLD FOOD DAY 2008 - Guest: Suzanne Mubarak
In a keynote speech at the ceremony, Egypt's First Lady Suzanne Mubarak said that the food crisis merited a rescue effort on par with the international response to the financial and credit crisis. Speaking at a ceremony here marking World Food Day, the anniversary of FAO's foundation in 1945, Diouf said, ?I wish to reaffirm that we know what needs to be done to eradicate the hunger of 923 million people in the world". FAOPhoto: Guilio Napolitano)

1. "It is the lives of millions of people that are hanging in the balance..." Egypt's First Lady Suzanne Mubarak, in FAO, today
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Topic(s): Animals & livestock, Director-General, Food Security, World Food Day
Produced by: FAO
 
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