AhlulBayt News Agency

source : IRIB
Saturday

20 August 2011

7:30:00 PM
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Iran proposes solution to Somalia crisis

Iran has called for exhausting all regional and international capacities and the formation of a special UN committee to help Somalia out of its deepening famine crisis.

(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Representatives from the 192 members of the United Nations food agency convened in an emergency session in Rome to discuss ways to ease the famine crisis in Somalia, on Thursday.

Addressing the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Iranian Ambassador Javad Tavakkolian presented the Islamic Republic's seven-point proposal to end the crisis in the Horn of Africa nation.

The proposed solution calls for full support for FAO's priorities in the Horn of Africa, including FAO demands from aid-providers to save the property and livestock victims and to provide them with necessary seeds and agricultural inputs.

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