ROME, April 30 (KUNA) -- International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) President Lennart Bage is poised to visit Kuwait next to meet senior officials on soaring food prices and bilateral cooperation.
In a release, a copy of which was obtained by the Kuwait News Agency (KUNA), the IFAD said Bage would travel to Kuwait on Monday (May 5th) evening to meet Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al-Sabah.
In his two-day stay in Kuwait, the IFAD chief will also meet several other Kuwaiti officials on bilateral cooperation between the IFAD and Kuwait on common financing for agricultural and rural development projects and promoting food production.
The IFAD has recently pledged USD 200 million for those countries which have been seriously affected by hiking food prices.
Talks will also touch upon bilateral cooperation in vocational training, capability-building, involvement of Kuwaiti personnel in IFAD-bankrolled training courses, by which other Gulf countries have already benefited.
It is the third visit by the IFAD chief to Kuwait since he took up his post in April 2001 in succession of Fawzi al-Sultan of Kuwait on the basis that Kuwait is an IFAD cofounder that plays a key role in the promotion of worldwide development activities and the fight against poverty across the world.
Copyright Kuwait News Agency 2008.
