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Italy proposes global food bank to tackle world food crisis
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Xinhua News Agency
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June 4, 2008
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Italy proposes global food bank to tackle world food crisis
ROME, June 4 (Xinhua) -- Italy on Wednesday told the Rome food
summit that a sort of 'global food bank' was needed to tackle the
world food crisis.
"We will ask the European Union to help set up an international
mechanism to create strategic resources to cope with emergencies,"
Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini told world leaders.
He pointed out that, as well as providing immediate aid, this
would reduce the sort of speculation on food prices that has
worsened the current crisis.
Frattini said Italy supported United Nations Secretary-General
Ban Ki-Moon's upcoming task force on the crisis, calling for "
global governance" ...