Director-General QU Dongyu

Bilateral meeting with the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry of Finland, Ms Jaana Husu-Kallio

03/07/2023

Rome - The FAO Director-General, QU Dongyu, met at FAO headquarters in Rome with Ms Jaana Husu-Kallio, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry of Finland, on the margins of the 43rd Session of the Conference. 

The Director-General thanked the Permanent Secretary for the long-term support of Finland to FAO, in particular for the countries’ support to the International Year of Plant Health (IYPH) 2020. The Director-General recalled their meeting in Brussels in December 2019 and thanked the Government of Finland for taking the lead in proposing IYPH 2020.

The pair discussed the interlinkages between plant and animal health, and climate change. The Director-General commended Finland for their knowledge sharing on environment, forest, conservation, and water issues. In that regard, the Director-General invited the Permanent Secretary to use all platforms that FAO offers to disseminate knowledge even further, as well as cooperating on digital agriculture and digital rural development.