The Irish Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Simon Coveney TD, travelled to EXPO Milan to co-host an event on Sunday, 6 September 2015, with Italian Minister for Agriculture, Maurizio Martina, to promote the work of the World Food Programme (WFP).
Minister Coveney said: “I want to use this public event to highlight the importance of continued support to the WFP and to encourage governments around the world to take steps towards giving them the reliable funding they require.”
The ministers, together with Italian Prime Minister, Matteo Renzi, the executive director of the World Food Programme, Ertharin Cousin, Bono and Amira Gornass, candidate for the chair of the FAO Committee on Food Security, participated in a public discussion highlighting the sterling work of the WFP and the UN’s global campaign for zero hunger.
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