Keynote Addresses and General Statements at IFAD's Anniversary Session of the Governing Council

Statements by Dignitaries (in order of delivery)

• Opening Statement by the Chairman of the 27th Session of the Governing Council of IFAD by His Excellency Guido Mantega, Minister of State for Planning, Budget and Management of the Federative Republic of Brazil
• Address by His Excellency Blaise Compaoré, President of Burkina Faso (English | French)
• Message from His Excellency Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations, delivered on his behalf by His Excellency Guido Mantega, Minister for Planning, Budget and Management of the Federative Republic of Brazil
• Statement of the President of IFAD
  (Arabic | English | French | Spanish)
• Statement by Mr Jacques Diouf, Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
• Message of Mr James T. Morris, Executive Director of the World Food Programme, delivered on his behalf by Mr Jean Jacques Graisse, Senior Deputy Executive Director of World Food Programme

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Statements by Member States and Others
Albania	Guatemala	Republic of Korea
Algeria	India	Senegal
Angola	Indonesia	Spain
Austria	Italy	Sri Lanka
Bangladesh	Japan	Sudan
Bhutan	Kenya	Syria
Cameroon	Lesotho	Thailand
Central African Republic	Libyan Arab Jamahiriya	The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
China	Malawi	Tanzania
Colombia (on behalf of Group 77)	Maldives	Tunisia
Congo	Mali	United States
D.P.R. Korea	Mauritius	Zambia
Denmark (on behalf of the Nordic Countries)	Morocco	Zimbabwe
Egypt	Namibia	AAAID
El Salvador	Nigeria	OPEC
France	Pakistan
Georgia	Peru (on behalf of GRULAC)