Parliamentary Meeting on the occasion of the WORLD FOOD SUMMIT: FIVE YEARS LATER Rome, 11 June 2002

	The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) hosted the World Food Summit: five years later at its Rome headquarters from 10 to 13 June 2002 to review progress towards ending hunger. The Summit was originally scheduled for 5-9 November 2001 but has been delayed in the aftermath of the 11 September attacks in the United States. IPU was instrumental in ensuring active parliamentary involvement in the World Food Summit back in 1996 and organised a parliamentary follow-up Conference in Rome in 1998. Committed to this approach, the IPU Council decided at its 170th session in Marrakech that the Inter-Parliamentary Union should organise a meeting of members of parliament attending the World Food Summit: five years later. The one-day Parliamentary Meeting took place on the premises of the Italian Parliament in Rome on 11 June 2002 and was open to all MPs attending the Summit. Nearly 200 members of parliament from over 80 contries attended the meeting which allowed them to receive first-hand knowledge of the main issues and orientations of the Summit, as well as information on last-minute developments with regard to the preparation of the Summit's outcome documents. Participants were able to exchange views concerning parliamentary strategies for effective follow-up to the Summit decisions, in particular through the adoption of appropriate legislation and the mobilisation of adequate financial resources. The provisional programme of the Parliamentary Meeting is reproduced below. Relevant documents (convocation, invitation, registration form) can be downloaded from this page in PDF format.

Parliamentary Meeting documents
	Invitation by the Italian Inter-Parliamentary Group (PDF)
	Convocation letter (PDF)
	Registration form (PDF)
IPU Press Releases
	Geneva/Rome, 13 June 2002
	Geneva/Rome, 5 June 2002
Related sites and documents
	Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
	World Food Summit: five years later
	Italian Senate of the Republic
	Italian Chamber of Deputies
	Parliamentary Message to the World Food Summit: five years later approved by the IPU Council at its 107th session (Marrakech, 23 April 2002)
	Inter-Parliamentary Conference on "Attaining the World Food Summit's obectives through a sustainable development strategy" (Rome, 29 November - 2 December 1998)
	Resolution of the 164th session of the IPU Council (Brussels, 16 April 1999) on the Results of the Inter-Parliamentary Conference on "Attaining the World Food Summit's obectives through a sustainable development strategy"
	Resolution of the 161st session of the IPU Council (Cairo, 16 September 1997) on Cooperation between the Union and FAO
	Declaration adopted at the Parliamentarians' Day on the occasion of the World Food Summit (Rome, 15 November 1996)
	Resolution of the 96th Inter-Parliamentary Conference (Beijing, 16-20 September 1996) on "Policies and strategies to ensure the right to food in this time of globalization of the economy and trade liberalization"
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Updated on 8 June 2002
PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME OF THE MEETING
MONDAY, 10 JUNE
15.00 - 20.00	Registration of participants in Palazzo Madama, Senate of the Republic
TUESDAY, 11 JUNE
8.30 - 12.45	Registration of participants in Palazzo Madama, Senate of the Republic
10.00 - 11.00	Inaugural session
11.05 - 12.45	Item 1: Fostering the political will to fight hunger: the role of parliaments Keynote presentation by Mr. Jean Ziegler, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food. Debate
12.45 - 14.15	Transfer to the Chamber of Deputies. Lunch.
14.15 - 15.45	Continuation of debate on Item 1
15.45 - 17.45	Item 2: New challenges to the achievement of the World Food Summit's goals Keynote presentation by Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, Harvard University Debate
17.45 - 18.00	Concluding remarks by the Chairperson
18.00	Closure of the meeting
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Evening	Reception offered by the Italian Parliament