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Minister of Municipality and Environment HE Eng Abdullah bin Abdulaziz bin Turki Al Subaie participated in the meeting of the third session of the General Assembly of the Islamic Organisation for Food Security (IOFS), hosted by Ankara via videoconferencing on Thursday. The meeting was held under the title ‘Sustainable development of food security in the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) region’. The topics discussed at the meeting included the IOFS action plan for the development of strategic commodities (wheat, cassava, rice and palm oil); the establishment of a food security reserve for the IOFS; the establishment of an Islamic Food Processing Association and the management of food security, science, technology and innovation programmes; agri-food trade promotion and investment; humanitarian food programmes; and improvement of the balanced food database for the IOFS. (QNA)
