Kuwaiti Ambassador in Rome Sheikh Azzam Al-Sabah said on Thursday that the nomination of Dr. Khaled Mahdi to head the International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFAD) as reaffirming Kuwait’s strong support for the fund’s mission.
Speaking to KUNA, Sheikh Azzam said the Kuwaiti government’s nomination of Dr. Al-Mahdi to lead this UN agency at this critical time of crises that threaten the food security of hundreds of millions of people around the world, reflects Kuwait’s desire to contribute to the fund’d development by nominating Mahdi, who has been serving as Secretary-General of the Supreme Council for Planning and Development since 2016.
He believed that Kuwait’s pioneering role in humanitarian action and sustainable economic and human development and its praiseworthy success in the management of regional and international multilateralism, especially within the IFAD, show the ability of its candidate to take over this post.
He added that the Kuwaiti government believes that Dr. Mahdi would contribute to promoting the IFAD’s role and carrying out its development projects.
During its first extraordinary session on July 7, the IFAD’s board of governors is expected to elect the fund’s seventh president, the post that was earlier held by Fawzi Al-Sultan of Kuwait in 1993.
In a nomination letter to IFAD Secretary Luis Jimenez-McInnis on April 27, Kuwaiti Minister of Finance and Minister of State for Economic Affairs and Investments Abdulwahab Al-Rushaid said Dr. Mahdi is fully qualified to head the Fund and support its core functions of achieving agricultural development and combatting rural poverty around the world
Source: Kuwait News Agency