FOOD SUMMIT: G8 TO MEET IN ROME AT START OF 2010

FOOD SUMMIT: G8 TO MEET IN ROME AT START OF 2010

(ANSA) - Rome, November 17 - Group of Eight and other countries which joined the L'Aquila Food Security Initiative will meet in Rome, probably at the start of 2010, Italian Agriculture Minister Luca Zaia said on Tuesday.

Speaking to ANSA on the sidelines of the United Nations World Summit on Food Security, Zaia said the meeting would focus on channeling the resources for food security agreed to during the July G8 summit in L'Aquila, which Italy hosted in its role of rotating president for 2009.

Italy was the only G8 country to send a high-level delegation to this week's summit here, held at the headquarters of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

This has been criticised by nations which did attend as well as the fact that little has been seen of the $20 billion pledged in July. photo: Minister Zaia at FAO summit