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The biennial FAO conference held in Italy has closed after a week-long session which had been chaired by Samoa’s Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Le Mamea Ropati Mualia.
Samoa and other Members have approved the agency’s biennial programme of work and budget, supporting the strategic direction charted out by Director-General Jose Graziano da Silva.
Samoa’s Honorary Consul-General in Italy, Papalii Giovanni Caffarelli, delivered an address on behalf of Samoa, where he called on the FAO leadership to address SIDS issues with a special forum within the FAO.

Samoa has been recognised with an award for satisfying the World Food Summit Goal “to eradicate hunger in all countries, with an immediate view to reducing the number of undernourished people to half their present level no later than 2015.