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| Short History |
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The first official step leading to the opening of the FAO regional offices was taken in 1947 when the FAO Council asked the Director-General to prepare plans for the establishment of offices in some regions.
The FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Far East was first temporarily opened in China. Through a decision of the FAO governing bodies, in 1948 the office moved to its present location in Bangkok which subsequently became its permanent site in 1953.
In 1979 the name of the office was changed to FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (RAP).
One of five FAO regional offices across the world, RAP has grown more than fourfold since 1948 and now has 43 member countries.
The regional office is headed by an Assistant Director-General who is also the Director-General’s Regional Representative for Asia and the Pacific.
Keeping with its policy to take the organization closer to its work in the field, RAP is part of the decentralized office structure of FAO which was reinvigorated in 1996 with the opening of a Subregional Office for the Pacific Islands (SAPA) in Samoa – also acting as the FAO representative in Southwest Pacific countries.
Other decentralized offices in the region are the FAO Liaison Office in Japan (LOJA) and FAO Representatives in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China (also covering Korea DPR and Mongolia), India (also covering Bhutan), Indonesia, Iran, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka (also covering Maldives) and Viet Nam. |
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