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Bilateral meeting with the President of Armenia – H.E. Vahagn Khachaturyan
24/07/2023
Rome – Today the FAO Director-General, QU Dongyu, and H.E. Vahagn Khachaturyan, President of Armenia, met on the margins of the UN Food Systems Summit +2 Stocktaking Moment taking place at FAO headquarters.
The President informed the Director-General of
Bilateral meeting with the Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade of Samoa - The Honourable Fiame Naomi Mata’afa
24/07/2023
Rome - The FAO Director-General, QU Dongyu, had a bilateral meeting with The Honourable Fiame Naomi Mata’afa, Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade of Samoa, on the sidelines of the UN Food Systems Summit +2 Stocktaking Moment taking p
Bilateral meeting with the Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development of the Slovak Republic - H.E. Jozef Bíreš
24/07/2023
Rome - Today the FAO Director-General, QU Dongyu, met at FAO headquarters in Rome with H.E. Jozef Bíreš, Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development of the Slovak Republic, on the sidelines of the UN Food Systems Summit +2 Stocktaking Moment.
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Bilateral meeting with the Federal Minister for Food and Agriculture of Germany - H.E. Cem Özdemir
24/07/2023
Rome - Today the FAO Director-General, QU Dongyu, met at FAO headquarters in Rome with H.E. Cem Özdemir, Federal Minister for Food and Agriculture of Germany.
The Director-General welcomed the Minister and recalled the many meetings they had in the past
Bilateral meeting with the EU Commissioner for Environment, Oceans and Fisheries - H.E. Virginijus Sinkevičius
24/07/2023
Rome - Today the FAO Director-General, QU Dongyu, met at FAO headquarters in Rome with H.E. Virginijus Sinkevičius, EU Commissioner for Environment, Oceans and Fisheries, on the sidelines of the UN Food Systems Summit +2 Stocktaking Moment taking place at
Bilateral meeting with the Minister of State for Development, Francophonie and International Partnerships of France - H.E. Chrysoula Zacharopoulou
24/07/2023
Rome - The FAO Director-General, QU Dongyu, met at FAO headquarters in Rome with H.E. Chrysoula Zacharopoulou, Minister of State for Development, Francophonie and International Partnerships of France.
The pair recalled their meeting last year in Rome in
Bilateral meeting with the Prime Minister of the Republic Djibouti - with H.E. Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed
24/07/2023
Rome - Director-General QU Dongyu and His Excellency Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed, Prime Minister of the Republic Djibouti, met on the margins of the UN Food Systems Summit +2 Stocktaking Moment at FAO Headquarters.
The Prime Minister was accompanied by Hi
Bilateral meeting with the Minister for Agriculture of Sri Lanka - The Honourable Mahinda Amaraweera
19/07/2023
Rome - The FAO Director-General, QU Dongyu, had a bilateral meeting with the Honourable Mahinda Amaraweera, Minister for Agriculture of Sri Lanka, on the margins of the 19th Regular Session of the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (
Director-General warns that we are at a critical moment in time, in his lecture at Federico II University in Naples
18/07/2023
Naples, Italy – FAO Director-General QU Dongyu delivered a Lectio Magistralis at Federico II University in Naples in which he highlighted that we are facing an “astonishing wake-up call” on the fragility of the world’s agrifood systems, with the COVID-19
Bilateral meeting with Senators from the Standing Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry - Canada
14/07/2023
Rome – FAO Director-General QU Dongyu met today with a delegation of Senators who sit on the Standing Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry of Canada, including: The Honourable Robert Black, Senator and Chair of the Standing Senate Committee on Agr
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