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Muchas gracias, señor presidente,
Honorables Ministros y Ministras, Excelencias,
Querido Director de FAO para América latina y Caribe
Director General de la FAO QU Dongyu,
Queridos Colegas,
Es para mí un placer dirigirme hoy a todos ustedes.
Agradezco al Gobierno y al pueblo de Ecuador por acogernos en esta hermosa ciudad de Quito.
Para empezar, quisiera expresar mi gratitud al Director General de la FAO, QU Dongyu, por haber invitado al Presidente del Comité de Seguridad Alimentaria Mundial (CSA) a esta Conferencia Regional de la FAO, como ha hecho con las demás conferencias regionales.
Excelencias, señoras y señores,
Nos reunimos hace poco más de dos años...
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Chairperson,
Honourable Ministers,
Director-General,
Excellences,
I am delighted to be here at the Ministerial meeting of the 36th Regional Conference for Asia and the Pacific. It is my pleasure to address you today.
I thank the Government and people of Bangladesh for hosting us in their capital city of Dhaka, with special thanks to the Honourable Minister Dr Muhammad Abdur Razzaque, our gracious host.
I would like to start by expressing my deep gratitude to the FAO Director-General QU Dongyu for inviting me as Chairperson of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) to attend this Regional Conference like he has done for the...
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Thank you Ambassador.
Honourable Ministers,
With all protocols observed,
I am very pleased to join you today here in Abidjan. I thank the UNCCD for inviting me in my capacity as the Chairperson of the United Nations Committee on World Food Security in FAO – the CFS.
As you may be aware, the CFS was created as an intergovernmental committee in 1974 and reformed in 2009 to become the UN’s multi-stakeholder platform where today, 133 governments come together with UN agencies and other key stakeholders to negotiate and agree on science and evidence-based policy frameworks to address structural causes of hunger...
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Excellencies, colleagues, ladies and gentlemen,
It is my pleasure to address you today as we gather for the launch the FAO-UNCCD “Technical Guide on the Integration of the CFS Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security - the CFS VGGT - into the Implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification and Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN)”.
While I was in Abidjan the last few days and met with many of you, I am afraid I had to leave for the FAO Regional Conference for Europe where we...
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Your Excellency, Henryk Kowalczyk, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development of Poland.
FAO Director-General, Qu Dongyu
Honourable Ministers,
Excellencies,
I am delighted to address you today at FAO’s 33rd Regional Conference for Europe. Allow me to start by thanking the honourable Minister of Agriculture and the Government of Poland for hosting us here in Łódź.
As I have done at all of FAO’s regional conferences this year, I want to again pledge our full commitment to work hand in hand with FAO and the entire UN system towards the goals we share of better production, better nutrition, better environment, and...