SENEGAL: FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANISATION PRESENTS GIFT OF BEANS AND SKIM MILK TO FIGHT DROUGHT

Record ID: 494462

  • Title: SENEGAL: FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANISATION PRESENTS GIFT OF BEANS AND SKIM MILK TO FIGHT DROUGHT
  • Date: 25th January 1967
  • Summary: 1. LV PAN. MEN LOOK AT STACKS OF BEANS 0.05 2. TV DITTO. 0.09 3. SV CROISIER LEFT, BOERMA CENTRE, LO RIGHT EXAMINE BEANS 0.15 4. CU HAND HOLDING BEANS 0.21 5. SV MR. BOERMA SPEAKING TO M.LO 0.26 6. CU M. LO REPLIES 0.31 7. GV BEANS STACKED IN SACKS 0.37 8. SV MEN LOOKING ON 0.41 9. CU SACKS OF BEANS MARKED "DAK
  • Embargoed: 9th February 1967 12:00
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  • Location: DAKAR, SENEGAL
  • Country: Senegal
  • Reuters ID: LVA1DH3Z4YBR4KPCVVZZ9UZ2BV6G
  • Story Text: A GIFT OF 767 TONS OF BEANS AND A LARGE QUANTITY OF SKIM MILK WAS PRESENTED IN DAKAR OF MONDAY TO THE SENEGALESE MINISTER OF RURAL ECONOMY, M. MAGATTE LO, TO FIGHT SENEGAL'S DROUGHT. THE GIFT WAS PRESENTED THROUGH THE FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANISATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS.

    THE GIFT WAS OFFICIALLY HANDED OVER TO M. LO BY MR. A.H. BOERMA, DUTCH-BORN EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE FAO'S WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME. ALSO PRESENT AT THE CEREMONY WAS M. MARCEL CROISIER, REPRESENTATIVE OF THE U.N. SPECIAL FUND.

    THE DONORS OF THE BEANS AND MILK WERE CANADA, CHILE AND HOLLAND. M. LO, IN A SPEECH AT THE CEREMONY, EXPRESSED HIS PLEASURE AT THE GIFT AND ASKED MR. BOERMA TO CONVEY SENEGAL'S GRATITUDE TO THE DONOR NATIONS.
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