Keynote Addresses and General Statements at IFAD's Twenty-Eighth Session of the Governing Council

Statements by Dignitaries (in order of delivery)

• Inaugural Address by the Right Honourable Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, President of the Republic of Uganda

• Keynote Address by His Excellency Guy Verhofstadt, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Belgium

• Message of the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Italian Republic, The Honourable Gianfranco Fini, delivered on his behalf by the Honourable Gianluigi Magri, Under-Secretary of State of the Ministry of Economy and Finance

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

• Message of the Executive Director of the World Food Programme, Mr James T. Morris, delivered on his behalf by Mr Jean-Jacques Graisse, Senior Deputy Executive Director

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Statements by Member States and Others
Algeria	India	Paraguay (on behalf of GRULAC)
Angola	Indonesia	Republic of Korea
Austria	Japan	Senegal
Bangladesh	Kenya	Spain
Bhutan	Libyan Arab Jamahiriya	Sri Lanka
Cameroon	Madagascar	Sudan
China	Malaysia	Sweden (on behalf of the Nordic Countries)
D.P.R. Korea	Maldives	Switzerland
Egypt	Mali	Syrian Arab Republic
Ethiopia	Mauritania	Thailand
France	Mongolia	Tunisia
Germany	Nigeria	United Kingdom
Guinea	Pakistan	Zimbabwe
Closing Statement by Her Excellency Nobuko Matsubara, Vice-Chairperson of the Twenty-Eighth Session of the Governing Council of IFAD Arabic | English | French | Spanish