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Environment Minister heads UAE delegation to GCC committee meeting
Rashid Ahmad Bin Fahd, Minister of Environment and Water, will lead the UAE delegation to the 19th ministerial meeting of the Agricultural Cooperation Committee of member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).
- WAM
- Published: 14:28 June 29, 2008
Dubai: Rashid Ahmad Bin Fahd, Minister of Environment and Water, will lead the UAE delegation to the 19th ministerial meeting of the Agricultural Cooperation Committee of member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).
The meeting to be held in Doha, Qatari capital, on July 1 will discuss a number of agricultural and environmental issues, including laws on seeds, seedlings, veterinary medicine, animal rights and unified law for the use and protection of water resources.
The meeting will also review a number of memoranda on joint cooperation in the field of agriculture, including a memorandum on the UAE's efforts to set up a semi-regional office of the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).
The office will have seven experts in various agriculture areas to serve the region.
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