The Republic of Moldova was chosen by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) as a priority beneficiary of assistance. The FAO will offer all the support needed to develop sustainable and competitive agriculture, to ensure rural development and to alleviates the consequence of natural disasters, FAO Representative for Europe and Central Asia Raimund Jehle, who is also the FAO Non-Resident Representative in Moldova, stated in a meeting with Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration Tudor Ulianovschi, IPN reports.

In a press release, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration said Tudor Ulianovschi noted that Moldova attaches great importance to the cooperation with FAO, being in time not only a beneficiary of assistance, but also a contributor to the exercise of the FAO mandate.

“Given the good cooperation relations witnessed until now, we continue to bank on the experience and expertise of FAO in achieving the national goals set in the Government’s program on the modernization and improvement of the competitiveness of the agrifood sector, mitigation of natural disasters, development of the seed sector, etc,” stated the minister.

The officials exchanged opinions on the implementation by Moldova of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, especially in food and sustainable agriculture, and assessed the progress made in implementing the FAO Country Programming Framework for the Republic of Moldova for 2016-2019.