The United Nations (UN) today, Thursday
signed an agreement as the major exhibitors at Expo 2015 in Milan, which will
run for six months from 1 May until the end of October, reports NaijaAgroNet.
The exhibition focusing on the theme
“Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life” will avail UN to bring decades of
experience and expertise on food security, nutrition, hunger and poverty
reduction to the table.
The three Rome-based food agencies,
namely the Food and Agriculture Organisaiton (FAO), International Fund for
Agricultural Development (IFAD) and World Food Programme (WFP) will coordinate
the participation of the UN system under the leadership of the
Director-General of FAO, José Graziano da Silva.
NaijaAgroNet
confirms that already, some 22 UN agencies have submitted proposals for content
and events at Expo 2015.
The Expo 2015 deal sealed at the
Sheikh Zayed Centre, FAO headquarters
in Rome, affirms
the agreement on the UN’s participation at the 2015 World Expo signed by the UN
Commissioner-General for Expo 2015 and FAO Assistant Director-General for
Forestry, Eduardo Rojas-Briales, and Giuseppe Sala, Chief Executive Officer of
Expo 2015.
Emma Bonino, Italy’s Minister of Foreign
Affairs, José Graziano da Silva, Director-General of FAO, Kanayo F. Nwanze,
President of IFAD and Claudia von Roehl, Director of the Government Partnership
Division of the WFP participated in the signing ceremony.
In a related
development, NaijaAgroNet
gathered that before the signing
ceremony, a side event “Women
and Nutrition: ideas for a sustainable future,” was organized by the
Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expo 2015 with the participation of Emma Bonino and David Nabarro, the UN Secretary
General’s Special Representative for Food Security and Nutrition.
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