The second Regional Meeting to review the progress of the West Eurasia FMD Roadmap was held in Istanbul, Turkey in December 2010. The meeting was organized by FAO in consultation with OIE, and hosted by the Ministry of Agriculture of Turkey.  

The Meeting  was supported by the FMD projects implemented by the EuFMD Commission (FAO) in Turkey, Trans-Caucasus, Iran and Syria, and the GTFS/INT/907/ITA project for Central Asian countries. Invitations were sent by FAO, on behalf of the FAO and OIE,  to the Chief Veterinary Officers (CVOs) and to the FAO national consultants on FMD (EuFMD or GTFS projects).  In total, 14 countries in West Eurasia were represented. The Objectives of the Workshop were   to review the progress along the Regional Roadmap towards the vision identified at the Shiraz Meeting in 2008, of a “West Eurasia region free of clinical FMD by 2020”;  to share information on FMD virus circulation within the West Eurasia FMDV ecosystem to assist planning of preventive measures in the short-term.