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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8232

14 June 2002
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/un/development
José Maria Aznar calls on international community to stand by commitment made at World food Summit

Brussels, 13/06/2002 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday in Rome where the second world food summit drew to a close, commitments were made to reduce the number of people who are starving by half by 2015. These perspectives at least look good on paper, just as they did at the summit five years ago. All the participants backed the FAO's project aiming to increase public investment in agriculture and development in poor countries by USD 24 billion, to help 815 million people who are under-nourished....

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