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FAO Director Sends Congratulation Letter to Fidel Castro



Havana, May 6 (Prensa Latina) FAO Director-General Jose Graziano da Silva congratulated the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, because the country complies with the goals to eradicate hunger, national television reported.
The message sent by the director of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) states that Cuba complied in advance with the goal of halving the number of undernourished people in each country, adopted by 2015 during the World Food Summit in 1996.

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On the other hand, Da Silva announced that the upcoming FAO Conference, which will take place in June in Rome, will set as a number one goal that of eradicating hunger totally.

He said that Cuba and other 15 countries will be recognized in that meeting for having complied in advance the 1996 goal.

Among the other nations are Chile, Guyana, Nicaragua, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela, for Latin America and the Caribbean.

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Here is the letter:

Dear Commander:

I have the honor to address you in my capacity as Director-General of the United Nations Organization for Food and Agriculture (FAO), to sincerely congratulate you and all the Cuban people for having fulfilled the goal set in advance by the World Food Summit, held in Rome in November 1996, and that he proposed to halve the number of undernourished people in each country by the year 2015.

As you may recall, you honored us with his presence in that Summit and delivered a brief but powerful speech, which still lingers in the collective memory of our Organization. You concluded by saying: "the bells that toll today for those who die of hunger every day, will toll tomorrow for humanity if it refused, failed or could not be wise enough to save them." And they say that you said in the press conference that followed the Summit that even if the target were achieved we would not know what to say to the other half of humanity if it would not be freed from the scourge of hunger. They are concepts that until today still retain its meaning and value.

It's been 17 years since then and now I have the great pleasure to inform you that the decision of its members and for the first time in its history, the FAO Conference, to be held next June in Rome, take the total eradication hunger as the number one goal of our Organization.

At that time, we will pay a tribute to Cuba and 15 other countries that have been most successful in reducing hunger. To all of them we will give a certificate of recognition for having met the target of the Summit in advance. The countries that accompany Cuba are: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Chile, Fiji, Georgia, Ghana, Guyana, Nicaragua, Peru, Samoa, Sao Tome and Principe, Thailand, Uruguay, Venezuela and Vietnam.

Besides reiterating my congratulations on the significant success achieved by your country, I wish you well-being and success for you and all the Cuban people.

Yours with great esteem and appreciation,


José Graziano da Silva

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