3rd Middle East Roadmap Meeting for the Foot-and-Mouth Disease Progressive Control Pathway (FMD-PCP)
Doha, Qatar
The third Roadmap meeting for Middle East countries was held in Doha, Qatar, 1 – 3 December 2015, back to back with the 1st PPR Roadmap meeting.
In collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, FAO and OIE, through their joint FMD Working Group organised the 4th FMD Roadmap workshops for Middle East countries in Amman, Jordan, from 15 to 19 October 2017.
The meeting was officially opened by His Excellency Eng. Khaled Al Huneifat, Minister of Agriculture of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, following remarks from Dr Sami Aledwen, General Secretary Assistant of Livestock and OIE Delegate for Jordan, Dr Ghazi Yehia, OIE Regional Representative for Middle East and Dr Friederike Mayen, Senior Livestock Development officer, on behalf of the FAO Representative in Jordan.
The meeting brought together Chief Veterinary Officers (CVOs), laboratory and epidemiologists from Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates and Yemen as well as representatives from Turkey (which belongs to Central Asia PPR Roadmap/ West Eurasia FMD Roadmap), EUFMD, The Pirbright Institute, ANSES, Boehringer Ingelheim, FAO and OIE.