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Read-out of the bilateral meeting between FAO Director-General and Jӧrg Kukies, Permanent Secretary and G7-Sherpa of the Federal Chancellor of Germany
07/06/2022
Rome - The FAO Director-General, QU Dongyu, today met with Jӧrg Kukies, Permanent Secretary and G 7-Sherpa of the German Federal Chancellor, at FAO headquarters.
The Director-General thanked the Permanent Secretary for Germany’s long-standing support to
Read-out of the FAO Director-General’s meeting with Simon Coveney, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister for Defence of Ireland
02/06/2022
Dublin - FAO Director-General, QU Dongyu met Simon Coveney Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister for Defence for Ireland.
The Minister welcomed the Director-General to Ireland and mentioned that learning from history’s tragic lessons and with the app
Transforming agrifood systems by listening to farmers’ voices
01/06/2022
Dublin/Rome – During his visit this week to Ireland, FAO Director-General QU Dongyu had the opportunity to meet Joe Hayden, at his and his brother Michael’s dairy farm in Tinahely, County Wicklow.
The Hayden’s family farm is home to their 210-cow dairy h
Read-out of the FAO Director-General’s meeting with Charlie McConalogue, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine of Ireland
01/06/2022
Dublin - FAO Director-General QU Dongyu today met Charlie McConalogue, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine of Ireland to discuss ways to ensure food security at global level and strengthen the collaboration with Ireland at large.
The Minister m
FAO Director-General meets the President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins, in Dublin
01/06/2022
Dublin - The FAO Director-General, QU Dongyu, today met Michael D. Higgins, President of Ireland, in Dublin to discuss pathways to agrifood systems transformation.
The President mentioned that we are experiencing challenging times due to the impact of a
Director-General QU Dongyu and FAO Goodwill Ambassador astronaut Thomas Pesquet highlight that neighbours have to work together to preserve Planet Earth
26/05/2022
Rome - Director-General QU Dongyu today received the FAO Goodwill Ambassador and European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Thomas Pesquet at FAO headquarters in Rome.
At the beginning of the meeting, Pesquet presented the Director-General with the FAO flag t
Director-General expresses FAO’s support for UN Ocean Conference to ambassadors from co-hosts Kenya and Portugal
25/05/2022
Rome - FAO Director-General QU Dongyu today met with Pedro Nuno Bártolo, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Portuguese Republic to FAO and Jackline Yonga, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Republic of Kenya to FAO to discuss the u
Read-out of the bilateral meeting between FAO Director-General, and Liesje Schreinemacher, Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
23/05/2022
Rome – The FAO Director-General, QU Dongyu, today met virtually with Liesje Schreinemacher, Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
The Director-General expressed his appreciation for the longstanding s
Read-out of the FAO Director-General’s meeting with Christopher Klein, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of International Affairs, U.S. Department of State
19/05/2022
New York – FAO Director-General QU Dongyu and Christopher Klein, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of International Affairs, met and discussed the longstanding partnership and fruitful collaboration between FAO and
Read-out of the FAO Director-General’s meeting with Kiyoshi ODAWARA, State Minister of Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs
18/05/2022
New York – FAO Director-General QU Dongyu, and Kiyoshi ODAWARA, State Minister of Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in a meeting today discussed the longstanding cooperation between FAO and Japan.
The meeting reaffirmed the importance of the partnersh
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