- Title: ITALY: WORLD FOOD SUMMIT CONTINUES
- Date: 13th November 1996
- Summary: ROME, ITALY (NOVEMBER 13, 1996) (RTV(A) - ACCESS ALL) 1. CU SALAD BAR 0.05 2. CU COOK DRAINING PASTA 0.16 3. LV GRILL AND PASTA BAR 0.18 4. SCU DELEGATE FROM PAPUA NEW GUINEA, AMOS TAPORAIE, SAYING THERE ARE OVER 800 MILLION PEOPLE SUFFERING FROM MALNUTRITION AND HERE WE ARE HAVING VERY GOOD FOOD, AND HAVING A SUMMIT, A FORUM OUT HERE (ENGLISH) 0.30 5. CU FOOD BEING PREPARED (6 SHOTS) 0.54 6. GV/LV/CU PEOPLE EATING IN CAFETERIA (3 SHOTS) 1.10 7. SCU FAO STAFFER NABHAN HASSAN SAYING IT'S NOT A CONTRADICTION, THERE'S NO CONTRADICTION, YOU CAN EAT AND WORK TO INCREASE WORLD SECURITY (ENGLISH) 1.25 8. SV DELEGATES EATING / LV WATCHING TELEVISION (2 SHOTS) 1.32 9. SCU TREVOR ROWE, WFP (WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME) SPOKESMAN SPEAKING (ENGLISH) 2.06 10. GV ROME FROM FAO BALCONY/ UN FLAG 2.08 SEQUENCE 9 TRANSCRIPT: ROWE: "OUR PEOPLE ON THE GROUND ARE TELLING US THE FOLLOWING - WE WERE UNLOADING FOOD AT THE CENTRE HOSPITAL AND MOST OF IT HAD BEEN UNLOADED, BUT THREE MORTAR SHELLS SUDDENLY WENT OFF. SO WE HAD TO SUSPEND OPERATIONS. WE'RE TRYING TO SEE WHAT WE CAN DO NEXT. THERE'S A SUSPICION THAT THIS COULD HAVE BEEN DELIBERATE, THAT THEY WANTED TO IMPEDE THE FOOD DISTRIBUTION. WE ARE TRYING TO REACH ABOUT 2,500 PEOPLE - WE HAD THE RATIONS THAT WOULD LAST THEM FOR TWO WEEKS. THE FOOD SITUATION ON THE GROUND IS DESPERATE AND WE HAVE BEEN INTERRUPTED AND WE'RE GOING TO TRY TO DO THE BEST WE CAN." Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
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- Story Text: INTRO: A U.N.-sponsored World Food Summit opened in Rome on Wednesday (November 13), in the shadow of starvation in Zaire and to appeals from Pope John Paul and other leaders to end what one called hunger's "affront to all of humanity".
As the summit began, Trevor Rowe, a spokesman for the World Food Programme told delegates of reports that the first relief workers to enter Goma in Eastern Zaire, had to stop their food distribution after their area came under mortar shell fire.
The crisis is not on the official agenda but the immediate tragedy clearly weighed on the gathering, which opened with leaders adopting an ambitious plan to feed more than 400 million additional mouths by the year 2015.
The summit is hosted by the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), which says that over 100 heads of state, prime ministers and senior ministers are due to attend the five-day gathering, as well as more than 10,000 delegates including non-governmental organisations and journalists. The FAO has not released a list of leaders attending for security reasons.
Due to the nature of the agenda, the FAO says it is doing the summit "on the cheap" and is discouraging lavish receptions to send the right signals. Delegates are being provided with a variety of different foods specially laid on for the occasion.
The gathering is expected to cost FAO, whose funding comes from its 174 member states, some $2 million in all.
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