Liaison Office Director receives warm congratulations on the occasion of FAO75

On 16 October, the World Food Day, held this year under the motto “Grow, Nourish, Sustain. Together”, the Director of the FAO Liaison Office with the Russian Federation, Oleg Kobiakov, received numerous warm congratulations from colleagues and partners on the occasion of the Organization’s 75th anniversary.

Greetings were sent by, among others: Deputy Chairman of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation Alexey Gordeev; Member of the Board – Minister in charge of Industry and Agro-Industrial Complex of the Eurasian Economic Commission Artak Kamalyan; Dean of the Faculty of Soil Science of Lomonosov Moscow State University, Director of the Eurasian Center for Food Security, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Sergey Shoba; Rector of the Moscow State Academy of Veterinary Medicine and Biotechnology – K.I. Skriabin MVA, professor Sergey Pozyabin; Head of the Eurasian Aquaculture Alliance Alexander Nevredinov; the leadership of the Federal Research Center “All-Russian Institute of Plant Genetic Resources named after N.I. Vavilov” (VIR) and Federal Governmental Budgetary Institution “Federal Centre for Animal Health” (FGBI “ARRIAH”).

Among those who congratulated the Organization on the anniversary were those who spoke at the opening ceremony of the exhibition “FAO: A Glorious Journey. 75 years at the service of progress": Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Vershinin; Deputy Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation Natalya Bocharova; Director of the Department of International Cooperation of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation Maxim Markovich; Deputy Head of the Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States Affairs, Compatriots Living Abroad, and International Humanitarian Cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo) Mikhail Bryukhanov; former Deputy Foreign Minister and present Rector of the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Ministry Alexander Yakovenko; Rector of the Russian State University for the Humanities (RSUH) Alexander Bezborodov; Rector of the Russian State Agrarian University Vladimir Trukhachev; Director-General of National Agricultural Research Organisation (NARO) of the Republic of Uganda Ambrose Agona; Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to FAO and other international organizations in Rome Dilyara Ravilova-Borovik; First Deputy Executive Director of the Russian Geographical Society Ilya Gurov.

The FAO Liaison Office expresses heartfelt thanks to all our colleagues and partners for sincere congratulations and kind wishes on the 75th anniversary and expresses gratitude for continued cooperation.