Statements by Dignitaries (in order of delivery)

• Address by His Excellency Natale D'Amico, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Finance of the Italian Republic

• Message of Mr Kofi Annan, the Secretary-General of the United Nations

• Statement by Ms Catherine Bertini, the Executive Director of the World Food Programme

• Message of Mr Jacques Diouf, Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, delivered on his behalf by Mr David Harcharik, Deputy Director-General

• Statement of the President of IFAD

• Keynote Address by H.E. Mohamed Hosni Mubarak, President of the Arab Republic of Egypt

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Statements by Member States

Albania	Madagascar
Algeria	Mauritius
Angola	Mexico
Austria	Mongolia
Bangladesh	Morocco
Benin	Nepal
Bhutan	Nigeria
Burkina Faso	Pakistan
Canada	Panama
China	Peru
Côte d'Ivoire	Portugal
D.P.R. Korea	Romania
Eritrea	Saudi Arabia
Ethiopia	Senegal
Finland (on behalf of Nordic Countries)	Sierra Leone
Gambia, The	Somalia
Germany	Spain
Guatemala	Sudan
Guinea	Swaziland
India	Switzerland
Indonesia	Syria
Iraq	Tanzania, United Republic of
Italy	Thailand
Japan	Tunisia
Jordan	United Kingdom
Korea, Republic of	United States of America
Kuwait	Uganda
Laos	Venezuela (on behalf of the Latin American and the Caribbean Group)
Lebanon	Zambia
Lesotho	Zimbabwe