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PRESS CONFERENCE

 

What: The following countries that have been honoured for reducing hunger are expected to attend and describe how they accomplished this target.

Who: Omar Halleslevens Acevedo, Vice-President, Nicaragua

Ralph Gonzalves, Prime Minister, St. Vincent and the Grenadines

Nicolás Maduro, President, Venezuela

 

When: 18:00, Sunday, 16 June 2013

Where: Sheikh Zayed Centre, FAO headquarters

Webcast: http://www.fao.org/webcast/

 

 

The press conference follows an awards ceremony from 15:00-18:00 Sunday to honour thirty-eight countries that have pulled millions of people out of hunger on their way to attaining their World Food Summit or Millennium Development Goal targets. Red Room.
See press release with names of countries: http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/177728/icode/

 

9:30, Saturday 15 June 2013

Amartya Sen, winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for Economics, will give the McDougall Memorial Lecture, entitled  "Why Is There So Much Hunger in the World?"

14:30, EC President José Manuel Barroso will accept an FAO award for actions by the EU that reduced hunger worldwide. Other award winners will also be honoured.

 

Media accreditation will be at the main entrance to FAO. A valid press card or letter of assignment on company stationery, plus an ID card, are required.

 

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