Kinhtedothi - On the evening of February 6, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh received Mr. Khuat Dong Ngoc, Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and his delegation who are visiting and working in Vietnam.
Currently, Vietnam and FAO are coordinating to implement the Cooperation Programme Framework for the period 2022-2026, focusing on 4 pillars, including: better production; better nutrition; better environment and; better life through 16 projects with a total budget of nearly 30 million USD.
This visit by the FAO Director-General aims to continue promoting cooperation with Vietnam in the fields of agriculture, food, environmental protection and rural development in the new context of global trade and climate change.
Speaking at the meeting, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh stated that Vietnam highly appreciates the cooperative relationship with FAO over the past years, both in the past difficult period and in the current period of national development, especially in promoting agricultural and rural development and transforming the food system sustainably.
The Prime Minister especially thanked FAO for mobilizing emergency support resources (worth 1.9 million USD) to help the Vietnamese people recover from Typhoon Yagi in September 2024; he believed that the cooperative relationship between FAO and Vietnam will continue to develop.
The Prime Minister congratulated and appreciated FAO for its achievements and important contributions as an important international forum, source of knowledge, advice and leading source of mobilization and financial provision in the field of food and agriculture, with many initiatives in line with the interests of developing countries.
The Prime Minister said that Vietnam always appreciates the international community's support in difficult times and now, Vietnam has made many important contributions to world food security, especially increasing rice exports when some countries restrict rice exports while the supply chain is broken.
To enhance cooperation between the two sides, the Prime Minister asked FAO to continue to support Vietnam in the process of restructuring the agricultural sector towards increasing added value and developing green, sustainable, smart, and climate change-responsive development; industrialization, rural urbanization, green, clean, and beautiful rural development; and promoting digital transformation.
Vietnam will cooperate with FAO to successfully organize the program to celebrate the 80th anniversary of FAO's establishment in 2025 as well as international cooperation programs, such as sharing experiences with African countries in exploiting land potential, eliminating hunger and reducing poverty.
For his part, FAO Director General Khuat Dong Ngoc highly appreciated Vietnam's development achievements in hunger eradication and poverty reduction, improving people's lives, and developing agriculture, typically the very successful implementation of the OCOP Program, exporting agricultural products, especially rice, fruits, etc.
The Director General affirmed that Vietnam is a model with valuable achievements and lessons that many countries admire and want to learn from; FAO always supports Vietnam's initiatives in sustainable, green agriculture, such as the 1 million hectare high-quality, low-emission rice program.
Director General Khuat Dong Ngoc suggested that Vietnam continue to strengthen cooperation with FAO, especially promoting its important role in effectively coordinating the implementation of the tripartite cooperation programs of FAO-Vietnam-African countries, South-South cooperation, contributing to the development and transformation of sustainable agriculture and food in the world.
Source: https://kinhtedothi.vn/mong-muon-fao-tiep-tuc-ho-tro-viet-nam-co-cau-lai-nganh-nong-nghiep.html
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