FAO GM Foods Platform: Benefits for the CCNE Countries, 2 June 2015, Rome, Italy

FAO GM Foods Platform: Benefits for the CCNE Countries, 2 June 2015, Rome, Italy

Meeting report (of the) side event of the 8th session of the FAO/WHO Coordinating Committee for the Near East

Year of publication 2015

Pages 13 p.

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Meeting

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Synopsis (short abstract) On 2 June 2015, a side event to the 8th session of the FAO/WHO Coordinating Committee for the Near East (CCNE) entitled “FAO GM Foods Platform: benefits for the CCNE countries” was organized at the FAO headquarters (HQ) in Rome, Italy. The final agenda is attached as Annex 1. A total of 31 delegates from Egypt, Iran, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Tunisia attended the side event. The list of participants is attached as Annex 2. The side event organization was facilitated by Masa mi Takeuchi (FAO) and Kosuke Shiraishi (Intern, FAO)

Meeting Session Number Sess. 8

Language English

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