Mikdad meets with Director General of AOAD

Damascus, (ST) – The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Faisal Al-Mikdad met on Monday with the Director General of the Arab Organization for Agricultural Development (AOAD)  Ibrahim Al-Dakhiri and the accompanying delegation.

The two sides affirmed the need to establish integration between governmental agencies and expert Arab agricultural organizations and to strengthen joint Arab action.

the delegation also comprised the AOAD Executive Chairman, the Lebanese Minister of Agriculture Abbas Hajj Hassan, the Syrian Minister of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform Mohammad Hassan Qatana and the Director-General of the Arab Center for the Studies of Arid Zones and Drylands (ACSAD) Nasr Edin Obaid.

Al-Mikdad stressed the importance of enhancing cooperation in the agricultural sector between Syria and the Arab Organization for Agricultural Development and setting action plans to develop the agricultural situation and upgrade performance of the agricultural sector in all Arab countries.

For his part, Al-Dakhairi stressed that the organization is working within the Agriculture Development Strategy of Uzbekistan for 2020-2030 focusing on agricultural and food systems, protecting agricultural resources and enabling work between the organization and member states.

He stressed that the organization will support the efforts of the Syrian Ministry of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform to protect its integrated environmental stock from fires through providing fire early warning systems.

Raghda Sawas